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| #e.22981 | Friday 12:30PM to 1:30PM
March 8,
2013 | CM | 1.00 |
FPZA March Luncheon Sea Level Rise Adaptation PlanningFlorida Planning and Zoning AssociationJacksonville , FL Rising sea level is a significant threat to Florida's 1,200 miles of coastline, with a multitude of impacts already being seen in urban, agricultural, and natural areas. Scientists expect these impacts to become more pronounced over the coming decades. Local leaders and planners have initiated planning for sea level rise in communities across the state in urban and rural areas, and there are many different objectives and potential strategies for adaptation. The speakers for this talk will provide an overview of sea level rise adaptation planning in Florida and focus on a specific case of adaptive planning in the Matanzas Basin.
The Matanzas Basin is one of the most valued and threatened areas along the Atlantic Coast of Florida. Close to 90% of its 100,000 acres remain undeveloped, leaving a relatively intact estuarine system which provides critical wildlife habitat and ecosystem services to the communities around it. The City of St. Augustine lies to its north with the City of Palm Coast to its south and it falls in both St. Johns and Flagler counties. Planning for Sea Level Rise in the Matanzas Basin is a pilot project led by the University of Florida in partnership with the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTM NERR) and is funded by a NERRS Science Collaborative grant through the University of New Hampshire.
The project seeks to proactively engage stakeholders to plan for the potential impacts of sea level rise in the Basin to ensure the ability for migration of habitats and species, maintenance of ecosystem services, and resiliency of communities as the area develops in the future. This project integrates the latest science on climate, sea level rise and modeling, urban and environmental planning, and community engagement.
More Instructors: Kathryn Frank Ph.D. Kathryn Frank, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florida. She is the principal investigator of the Matanzas Basin project, and she is active in four other sea level rise planning projects across Florida. Dr. Frank's expertise is in integrative and adaptive planning, including watershed and coastal planning, connecting science to policy making, simultaneously planning for the built and natural environments, and collaborative processes and public engagement. Dr. Frank serves on the state's Community Resiliency Focus Group and the University of Florida Water Institute's Faculty Advisory Committee. Emily Montgomery Emily Montgomery studied Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Florida where her focus was on human interactions and cultural connections with the natural world. She began her environmental career in 2007as an intern with the Nature Conservancy. In April 2008, she joined the GTM NERR and is currently the Coastal Training Program Coordinator. The Coastal Training Program works to provide science-based information to coastal decisions makers to enable better informed decisions regarding our critical coastal resources. Current program initiatives include controlling and preventing invasive species, planning for sea level rise, and sustaining healthy natural communities and water quality to sustain healthy human communities. Ms. Montgomery is serving as a collaborative process advisor for the GTM NERR’s Planning for Sea Level Rise in the Matanzas Basin project in partnership with the University of Florida (www.planningmatanzas.org). (4 Ratings)
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