2021 Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit: Full Schedule

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7:00pm EST

TED Talks & Networking

Seen a good TED Talk lately? Want to discuss it with others? Join us for this social and informative event. Its like a book club, but for TED Talks!

We will provide a list of interesting and thought provoking TED Talks (see below), you are welcome (and encouraged) to watch them in advance. The more popular ones we'll take time to watch during the event. Depending on attendance and interest we will discuss as a group or use breakout rooms to start conversations around some of these fascinating topics!

Have you seen a TED Talk that relates to the themes of the Summit that you'd like to see featured? Submit a link here and we'll add it to our list!

List of TED Talks
David Lammy, Climate Justice Can't Happen With Racial Justice
Katharine Wilkinson, How Empowering Women and Girls Can Help Stop Global Warming
Van Jones, The Economic Injustice of Plastic
Siddhartha Roy, Science in Service to the Public Good
Britt Wray, How Climate Change Affects Your Mental Health
Sonaar Luthra, We Need to Track the World's Water Like We Track Weather
Finnegan Harries, A Creative Approach to Climate Change
Emily De Sousa, A Drop in a Plastic Ocean
David Wallace-Wells, How We Could Change the Planet's Climate Future

Meeting ID: 850 7626 0812
Passcode: 031214

Monday March 1, 2021 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
Zoom-1

Special Event

Subject Climate Change, Outreach & Community, Urban Waters

2:15pm EST

Urban Waters: Restoring & Revitalizing Our Communities

2:15pm Dean, Bradley, FEMA Risk Management Directorate; Melissa Herlitz, Michael Baker International; Getting to Yes with Resilience Through Community Collaboration
2:30pm Boon, Nathan, William Penn Foundation; Concentration Theory for the Urban Estuary: Can Targeted Conservation Impact Water Quality in Densely Developed Sub-Watersheds?
2:45pm Kohler, Ellen, University of Maryland Environmental Finance Center; Karl Russek, The Water Center at the University of Pennsylvania; Funding Water Infrastructure in the Delaware River Basin
3:00 Q & A

Moderators

Emily Baumbach

Estuary Program Coordinator, Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, Inc.

Speakers

Bradley Dean CFM, CE

Communications & Partnerships Specialist, FEMA

I am a Communications and Partnership Specialist with FEMA’s Risk Management Directorate (RMD) leading the RMD’s partnership strategy, Resilient Nation Partnership Network while also supporting the Mitigation Framework Leadership Group (Secretariat and now Deputy Secretariat... Read More →

Nathan Boon

Senior Program Officer, William Penn Foundation

Nathan supports science- and data-driven approaches to protect and restore the Delaware River watershed: drinking water source for New York City, Philadelphia, Trenton and Wilmington. Before joining the Foundation in 2012, Nathan worked with the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton... Read More →

Ellen Kohler

Program Director of Water Resources, University of Maryland Environmental Finance Center

The UMD Environmental Finance Center is one of ten around the country, each serving an Environmental Protection Agency region. We serve Region 3 - Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. We partner with the Syracuse EFC on work in New... Read More →

Tuesday March 2, 2021 2:15pm - 3:15pm EST
Zoom-1

Concurrent Session

Subject Urban Waters

2021 Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit