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Coastal Places, Processes, and Partnerships: Balancing values and expectations on Maine's beaches

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• Welcome
  • Peter Slovinsky, Maine Geological Survey
    Dr. James Ortiz, President, Southern Maine Community College (invited)
    Christine Feurt, Moderator, Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve
• Looking Ahead in Maine Coastal Communities (14.3 Mb pdf)
  • Derek Sowers, Conservation Program Manager, Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership
  • Nancy Smith, GrowSmart Maine
• The Southern Maine Shoreline: A Brief History (7.4 Mb pdf)
  • Greg Berman, Woods Hole Sea Grant and Cape Cod Cooperative Extension
• Adapting to Change on Maine's Beaches:  Recommendations from DEP's Report, "People and Nature Adapting to a Changing Climate" (11.8 Mb pdf)
  • Malcolm Burson, Office of the Commissioner, Maine Department of Environmental Protection

• A Place for Wildlife
  • Laura Minich Zitske, Maine Audubon
• The Status of Maine's Beaches in 2011
  • Meeting presentation (8 Mb pdf)
  • Resilient Beaches: Comparison of 2009 and 2011 Beach Profile Scores (147 Kb pdf)
  • Report
    • Peter Slovinsky, Maine Geological Survey
• A Place For People: Access to Maine's Beaches
  • Dan Bacon, Town of Scarborough
  • Bob Foley, Save Our Shores Maine
  • Mic Harris, Save-Our-Beaches
  • Nancy Viehmann, Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve
• Regulations Affecting Coastal Sand Dunes and Legislative Update
  • Maine's Sand dune Rules: What they Mean to Coastal Property Owners (2.9 Mb pdf)
    • Dawn Hallowell, Maine Department of Environmental Protection
  • State of Maine Shoreland Zoning 101 (2.1 Mb pdf)
    • Mike Morse, Maine Department of Environmental Protection

• What do I want my coastal community to look like in 50 years?
  • Bob Hamblen, City of Saco
• Regulators at the Table: Q/A with DEP
  • Lisa Vickers, Maine Department of Environmental Protection
• Citizens Take Action for Community Health
  • Becky Kolak, Maine Conservation Corps Volunteer

• Casco Bay and Watershed: Impacts and Actions
  • Jeremy Miller, Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve
• Maine Healthy Beaches Program: Working Together to Improve Coastal Water Quality
  • Maine Healthy Beaches Program (11.6 Mb pdf)
    • Keri Lindberg, Maine Sea Grant and University of Maine Cooperative Extension
  • Tracking Human Sourced Pollution: Using Various Techniques to Identify Sources of Bacteria Impacting Water Quality (16.3 Mb pdf)
    • Tim Bridges, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Understanding My Coastal Property (9.7 Mb pdf)
  • Stephen Dickson, Maine Geological Survey
  • Joseph Young, Maine Floodplain Management Program
• Understanding My Coastal Property: Coastal Floodplains (5.8 Mb pdf)
  • Joseph Young, Maine Floodplain Management Program
• Saco Bay Communities Working Together: Adapting to Sea Level Rise (7.2 Mb pdf)
  • Peter Slovinsky, Maine Geological Survey
  • J.T. Lockman, Southern Maine Regional Planning Commission
  • Ken Buechs, Biddeford Citizen Representative, Sea Level Adaptation Working Group

• Coastal Protection and Private Property Rights: Are Maine's Environmental Regulations Achieving a Balance?
  • John Davis, Debate Solutions LLC
  • Debate teams from Harvard and Mary Washington Universities
• Closing
  • Peter Slovinsky, Maine Geological Survey

• Please contact kngrant@maine.edu

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Last updated on August 29, 2011

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