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Waterfront Conference 2024
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Tuesday, May 21 • 11:00am - 12:00pm
Maintenance as a Key Climate Resilience Strategy and Ongoing Commitment

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This panel explores how maintenance of green infrastructure is a critical part of climate resilience and discusses maintenance vs. adaptive management. Topics to be covered include processes, funding, governance, and the role of community-based organizations in this role, along with the recognition of ancillary community benefits and potential jobs programs.
Speakers
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Adam Ganser

Executive Director, New Yorkers for Parks
Adam Ganser has spent his career as a leader advocating for, designing, and developing creative urban scale public realm ideas that emphasize economic, environmental, and social impacts.As executive director of New Yorkers for Parks, Adam has led a citywide advocacy campaign to increase... Read More →
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Maggie Scott Greenfield

Consultant, The RAIN Coalition
From 2005–2023, Maggie Greenfield served in various roles for the Bronx River Alliance, including as executive director for the Alliance and Bronx River administrator for NYC Parks (2017–2023). Maggie secured and guided investments of more than $250 million in greenway and ecological... Read More →
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Marit Larson

Assistant Commissioner of Natural Resources and Planning, NYC Parks Department - Division of Environment and Planning
Marit Larson is the assistant commissioner of natural resources and planning at the NYC Parks Department. She oversees the Natural Resources Group, which conducts restoration, management, native plant propagation, stewardship, design and construction, and monitoring and assessment... Read More →
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Jaclyn Rhoads

Assistant Executive Director, Assistant Executive Director, Pinelands Preservation Alliance
Dr. Jaclyn Rhoads is the assistant executive director of Pinelands Preservation Alliance.  She started working in the Pinelands in 2004 after receiving her doctorate degree in environmental policy from Drexel University.  She manages the policy and science staff at Pinelands Preservation... Read More →
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Caleb Stratton

Chief Resilience Officer, City of Hoboken, N.J.
Caleb Stratton is the chief resilience officer and assistant business administrator of Hoboken, New Jersey. He is responsible for orchestrating and executing municipal operations across seven departments and with a staff of over six hundred. He manages delivery of the city’s capital... Read More →

Tuesday May 21, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Safra Hall (1st Floor)
  Track A: Urban Climate Resilient Design

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