NC DENR and NC DCM Sea Level Rise Science Forum

North Carolina Sea Level Rise Science Forum

Registration Open

Date:        January 14-15, 2010
Location:  Hilton North Raleigh, Raleigh NC
Agenda:   Coming soon
Cost:        None

The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources is hosting a Science Forum on Sea Level Rise in North Carolina.  The forum will feature distinguished speakers from North Carolina, as well as invited speakers from other states.

The forum will be the vehicle through which the N.C. Coastal Resources Commission (CRC) will release a preliminary report on the current and projected rates of sea level rise in North Carolina.  The report will project sea level rise ranges in 25-year intervals through 2100.  The CRC, as well as other DENR agencies, can use these metrics as the foundation for policy development and adaptation planning.

Anyone is welcome to register, including state and local officials, resource managers, emergency managers, planners, infrastructure providers (e.g., transportation and utilities), conservationists, private sector, and other interested parties.

Registration is now open and is limited to 250 people. There is no cost to register. To register, please send an email to Tancred.Miller@ncdenr.gov with the following information:

• Name
• Title and affiliation
• Mailing address
• Telephone number

A draft agenda will be published soon, so please check this page again at a later date.

Expected speakers include:

Dr. Virginia Burkett, Chief Scientist for Global Change Research, U.S. Geological Survey
Mr. Ted Devens, Project Planning Engineer, NC Department of Transportation
Mr. John Dorman, Assistant Director, NC Division of Emergency Management
Dr. Gordon Hamilton, Research Associate Professor, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine
Dr. Benjamin Horton, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Margery Overton, Professor of Civil Engineering, NC State University; Chair, CRC Science Panel
Dr. Stanley Riggs, Distinguished Professor of Geology, East Carolina University; CRC Science Panel member