Nantucket Coastal Conference
June 10, 2025
9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location
Great Harbor Yacht Club
96 Washington Street
Nantucket, Mass. 02554
Cost
This is a free conference.
Agenda
June 10, 2025 (Details to come)
9:00 am - 9:45 am - Welcome and Kickoff
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Keynote Speaker
Alison Brizius, director, Mass. Office of Coastal Zone Management
10:15 am - 11:45 am | Topic 1: Local Planning
Liz Durkee, Martha's Vineyard Commission; Steve Mague and Sam McFarland, Center for Coastal Studies; Tara Riley, Town of Nantucket; Michael Cahill, Town of Plymouth; Melyssa Millett, Town of Provincetown
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm | Topic 2: Coastal Resiliency
Leah Hill, Town of Nantucket; Karen Beattie, Nantucket Conservation Foundation; Shannon Hulst, Cape Cod Cooperative Extension and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Sea Grant; Jen Karberg and Alejandra Narvaez, Nantucket Conservation Foundaton
1:15 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch
Lunch will be provided. Posters available for viewing.
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Topic 3: Neighborhood- and Property-Scale Adaptation
Claire Martin, REMAIN; Michael Barrett, Resilient Woods Hole; Niles Parker, Nantucket Historical Association; Shannon Hulst, Cape Cod Cooperative Extension and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Sea Grant
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Topic 4: Presentations and Panel on Retreat
Emma Gildesgame, The Nature Conservancy; Nina Coleman, Town of Barnstable
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