SPEAKER SERIES

The Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge's 10-week Speaker Series has wrapped all 10 lectures are available below. The series brought renowned speakers from around the country who delivered inspiring and informative lectures on sea level rise through the lens of everything from finance and historic policy to human dynamics and decision-making. Explore the library of recordings for insightful conversations and takeaways that can be applied to coastal communities around the world and check out our suggested reading and weekly pre-reads as well.

Date


February 1

 

February 3

Theme


Course Introduction by Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge Co-Chairs Marty and Bob

Lecture recording here


Transportation, Mobility and Infrastructure Management

Lecture recording here

Speaker


Marty Hylton
Director of the University of Florida Historic Preservation Program and the Center for World Heritage Research and Stewardship

Bob Miklos
Founding Principal, DesignLAB Architects


Kirk Bosma
Senior Coastal Engineer with the Woods Hole Group

Paul Kirshen
Engineering, UMass Boston


February 10

Green Infrastructure

Lecture recording here

Susannah Drake
Founding Principal of DLAND Studio

Dr. Sarah Bois
Director of Research and Education, The Linda Loring Nature Foundation

Dr. Jennifer Karberg
Research Supervisor, Nantucket Conservation Foundation


February 17

Urban Ecology Case Studies

Lecture recording here

Amy Whitesides
Director of Resilience and Research at Stoss Landscape Urbanism

Carly Foster
Principal Resilience Lead at Arcadis


February 24

Preservation Architecture Studies

Lecture recording here

Allan Shulman
University of Miami School of Architecture and Lead on the Miami Beach Buoyant City Report

Jennifer Wellock
Technical Reviewer, Architectural Historian, National Park Service Federal Response


March 10

Sea level rise, Flooding and Living with water through Design

Lecture recording here

Iñaki Alday
Dean, Richard Koch Chair in Architecture, Tulane School of Architecture and Founder, aldayjover architecture and landscape

Dr. Kristina Hill
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design, UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design


March 17

Resilience and Exploration of successful Adaptations

Lecture recording here

Chris Reed
Founder and Director, Stoss Landscape Urbanism

 

David Waggonner
Architect and Principal, Waggonner and Ball, New Orleans


March 24

Human Dynamics and Decision Making

Lecture recording here

Robert Lempert
Director, Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition; Principal Researcher; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School

AR Siders
Core faculty at Disaster Research Center and Assistant Professor Biden School of Public Policy and Administration at University of Delaware


March 31

Coastal Policy & Historic Policy

Lecture recording here

Thomas Ruppert
Attorney and Coastal Planning Specialist, Florida Sea Grant

Read Porter
Senior Staff Attorney Marine Affairs Institute, Rhode Island Sea Grant Legal Program, Roger Williams University School of Law

Greg Berman
Coastal Processes Specialist, Woods Hole Sea Grant and Cape Cod Cooperative Extension

Lisa Craig
Principal, Craig Group


April 7

Finance and Real Estate

Lecture recording here

John Macomber
Senior Lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School

Dr. Jesse M. Keenan
Associate Professor of Real Estate, School of Architecture, Tulane University