CONCURRENT SESSION SCHEDULE

CONCURRENT SESSION 1 (Wednesday 10/27 @ 11 AM)
Track 1: National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)
Moderator: Elissa Commins, PE, CFM, Brick Township

• Floodplain Design, Construction, and Impacts on Flood Insurance. Owen Gechter, Floodproofing.com
• Educating your Community on Flood Insurance. E. Tyler Ardron, Risk Reduction Plus Group
• Elevation Certificate Data: Unlocking Opportunities for More Informed Floodplain Management. Susanna Pho, Forerunner

Track 2: Planning & Regulating for Resilience
Moderator: Brian Kempf, PP, CFM, NYC Emergency Management

• Doing Resiliency the Old School Way. Rebecca Jones, NJDEP
• Substantial Damage Planning - Adaptation, CRS Credits and Future Resiliency. Kenya Lovill, NJDEP
• Case Study - Shipyard Associates LLC vs the City of Hoboken. Ann Holtzman, City of Hoboken & Joseph Maraziti, Maraziti Falcon. LLC

Track 3: Green & Grey Infrastructure
Moderator: Mike Sheehan, NJDEP

• Infrastructure Climate Change Case Studies. Thomas R Decker, Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc.
• Refinement of the Existing New Jersey Living Shorelines Engineering Design Guidelines with Further Consideration of Urban Environments. Jon Miller, Stevens Institute of Technology

Track 4: HEC RAS Training

• Michael Horst, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Civil Engineering, The College of New Jersey

Track 5: Coastal Storm Risk Management
Moderator: Tom Herrington, PhD, Associate Director, Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute

• The New Jersey Back Bays Study - A Summary of the August 2021 Draft Feasibility Report. Jay Bailey Smith and Steve Allen, US Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District

CONCURRENT SESSION 2 (Wednesday 10/27 @ 2 PM)
Track 1: Stormwater Management
Moderator: Chris Theodos, PE, PP, CFM, Brick Township MUA

• Navigating through the NJ Environmental Infrastructure Funding Program (NJEIFP), State Revolving Fund (SRF) & Implementing a Stormwater Utility. Eleni Giannikopoulos, Suburban Consulting Engineers, Inc.
• New Jersey Turnpike Authority Drainage Management Program. Sean Butler, New Jersey Turnpike Authority and Elizabeth Calt, Michael Baker International

Track 2: Flood Hazard Vulnerability
Moderator: Tom Slowinski, PE, CFM, NJDEP

• Introduction to NJPMP (Probable Maximum Precipitation) Tool. Bhavin Gahndi, AECOM
• Total Exposure In Floodplain (TEIF) for NJ. James Mawby, T&M Associates

Track 3: Floodproofing
Moderator: Ann Holtzman, CFM, City of Hoboken

• Dry Flood Proofing – Flood Loading Analysis for Mitigation Solutions. Michael MacGowan, ILC Dover
• Designing Passive Floodproofing Solutions Using Floodproof Windows and Wall Systems. Brian Johnson, Fenex
• Passive Flood Barriers and Development of the Dry Floodproofing Cost Calculator. Camille Graham and Sean O’Leary, Floodproofing.com

Track 4: HEC HMS Training

• Michael Horst, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Civil Engineering, The College of New Jersey

Track 5: Stormwater Management
Moderator: Wassim Nader, President, The Nader Group

• Overview of New Jersey’s Stormwater Management Rule. Mike Sheehan, NJDEP, Land Use Regulation

CONCURRENT SESSION 3 (Thursday 10/28 @ 11 AM)
Track 1: Resilient Towns Initiative
Moderator: Anton Getz, CFM, T&M Associates

• Ordinance Administration as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy. Kenya Lovill, NJDEP
• Effective Floodplain Permitting as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy. Rebecca Jones, NJDEP
• What is a Local Design Flood Elevation? Becky Lyne, Michael Baker International

Track 2: Floodplain Regulations
Moderator: Greg Westfall, CFM, NJAFM

• An Overview of New Jersey’s Flood Hazard Area Control Act Regulations, Christian Zografos and Mike Sheehan, NJDEP, Land Use Regulation

Track 3: Floodplain Design & Flood Hazard Mitigation
Moderator: Chris Crane, PE, CFM, Dynamic Engineering

• Industry Advancements in Floodplain Design and Construction. Owen Gechter and Sean O’Leary, Floodproofing.com
• Rebuild By Design - Hudson River Project – Resilient Design in an Urban Environment. Karen Appell, AECOM
• Saving 450 Years of History from Tidal Flooding in St. Augustine, FL. Gabe Lederman, Northeast Territory Manager, Wapro, Inc.

Track 4: Modelling
Moderator: Andrew Banff, PE, CFM, Langan

• History of the Curve Number. Hunter Birkhead, Colliers Engineering and Design
• Pending Changes to the Curve Number Method. Hunter Birkhead, Colliers Engineering and Design
• Hydrologic vs Hydraulic Rainfall-Runoff Modeling. Michael Horst, The College of New Jersey

Track 5: Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) - A Bigger Pre-disaster Mitigation Program
Moderator: John Miller, PE, CFM, FEMA Region 2

• Lt. Brad Waugh, State Hazard Mitigation Officer, NJOEM
• Sharon Edwards, Hazard Mitigation Assistance Branch Chief, FEMA R2​