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
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
- Implementing the Vineyard Climate Action Plan, Liz Durkee, Martha's Vineyard Commission
- Connecting Coastal Communities: A spatial approach, Steve Mague and Sam McFarland, Center for Coastal Studies
- Nantucket Island's First Eelgrass Management Plan 2025, Tara Riley, Town of Nantucket
- Climate Action and Adaptation Planning, Michael Cahill, Town of Plymouth
- Engaging in Adaptation, Melyssa Nickerson, Town of Provincetown
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm | Topic 2: Coastal Resiliency
- Coastal Resilience in Nantucket's Downtown, Leah Hill and Vince Murphy, Town of Nantucket
- Benefits to Coastal Resilience from Restoring a Freshwater Wetland Complex at Windswept Bog, Nantucket, Karen Beattie, Nantucket Conservation Foundation
- Regulatory Tools for Coastal Floodplain Resiliency, Shannon Hulst, Cape Cod Cooperative Extension and WHOI Sea Grant
- Building Beach and Saltmarsh Resilience on the Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge, Jen Karberg and Alejandra Narvaez, Nantucket Conservation Foundation
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
- Envisioning Resilient Futures through Student and Community Partnerships, Claire Martin, Envision Resilience
- Resilient Woods Hole, Michael Barrett, WHOI/Resilient WoodsHole
- Sea Level Rise and Resiliency: Creating a climate risk assessment for Nantucket's built heritage, Niles Parker, Nantucket Historical Association
- Aesthetic Community Character and Flood Risk, Shannon Hulst, Cape Cod Cooperative Extension and WHOI Sea Grant
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Topic 4: Presentations and Panel on Retreat
- Planned Relocation and the Flood Adaptation Toolbox, Emma Gildesgame, The Nature Conservancy
- Sandy Neck Beach Park Coastal Resiliency Project, Nina Coleman, Town of Barnstable
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