Climate Change and Rhode Island’s Coast:
Where Will Tomorrow’s Shoreline Be?
June 17, 2008, The Towers, Narragansett, RI
Hosted by: Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council, URI Coastal Institute
Papers and Presentations
M. Thompson Study, Inundation Scenarios in SK (PDF)
Climate Change in the Northeast US, Union of Concerned Scientists
Peter Lord Article on Conference (PDF), Providence Journal Bulletin, 20 June 2008
Presentations
Agenda
| 8:30 | Coffee |
| 8:45 | Welcome and Overview of Day, Grover Fugate, CRMC |
| 9:00 | Climate Change: An Overview, Kate Moran, URI Graduate School of Oceanography |
| 9:40 | Questions |
| 10:00 | How Will Climate Change Affect Rhode Island’s Coast, Jon Boothroyd, RI State Geologist and URI Department of Geosciences |
| 10:40 | Questions |
| 11:00 | CRMC’s Policy on Coastal Management in the Context of Climate Change, Janet Freedman, CRMC |
| 11:40 | Questions |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 | Implications to Land Owners of CRMC’s Climate Change Policy, Grover Fugate, CRMC |
| 2:00 | Questions |
| 2:30 | Climate Change: Perspectives From a Coastal Community. Stephen Alfred, Town of South Kingstown |
| 3:00 | Open Forum and Discussion |
| 3:45 | Concluding Remarks, Richard Horwitz, RI Department of Environmental Management and Coastal Institute |
| 4:00 | Reception |
| 5:00 | It's a Shore Thing: Coastal Cabaret, produced by Judith Swift |
Sponsors:
State of Rhode Island Web Site
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