(Photo: Peg Van Patten)
Conference
Program
Friday March
28
9 am to 11:30
Field trip to Westerly, Rhode Island to explore aspects of public
access, beach dynamics and management of coastal wetlands.
Virginia Lee, Assistant Director, Rhode Island Sea Grant College Program
12:00 Registration
12:30 Welcome and Introductions
Gerald R. Visgilio, Associate Director
The Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental
Studies
Keynote Address
Does Shoreline
Armoring Violate the Clean Water Act?
Rolling Easements, Shoreline Planning, and Other Responses to Sea
Level Rise
James G. Titus
Global Programs Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1:30 Session I. The Law and
Coastal Environments
The Palazzolo
Litigation: A Case Study of the Supreme Court, "Property Rights"
and the Coast
Michael Rubin
Rhode Island Attorney General's Environmental Advocate
Regulatory
Takings Post-Palazzolo: Applying Supreme Court Jurisprudence from
the Practical Perspective
Michael E. Malamut
Senior Attorney, New England Legal Foundation, Boston and Adjunct
Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School
Break with light refreshments
Regulating
vs. Buying the Coast
John D. Echeverria
Executive Director of the Georgetown Environmental Law and Policy
Institute at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.
Public Trust: Does the Law
Serve Public Policy?
Jane K. Stahl
Deputy Commissioner CT Department of Environmental Protection
4:30 Adjourn
5:30 Reception and Dinner
7:30 Evening Presentation
(Free and open to the public)
Human
Values and the Coastal Environment
Stephen R. Kellert
Tweedy Ordway Professor of Social Ecology, Yale University School
of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Saturday March 29
8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 Session II. Ecological
Consequences for Coastal Development
Essential
Fish Habitat (EFH) in the Coastal Zone: The Essentials on how Fish
Habitat Needs are Evaluated and Protected
Eric T. Schultz and Michael Ludwig
Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Too Many
Neighbors: Planning for Nitrogen in Coastal Watersheds
James N. Kremer
Professor of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut at Avery Point
Break
Once
Spilled - Still Found: Metal Pollution In Sediments From Long Island
Sound And Its Coastal Wetlands
Johan C. Varekamp
George I. Seney Professor of Geology, Earth and Environmental Studies,
Wesleyan University
Strategic
Coastal Bird Migration Staging Sites: An International Conservation
Challenge
Brian Harrington
Biologist, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, Massachusetts
Staff Technical Advisor to the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve
Network
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Student Research Poster Session
1:30 Session III. Private Use
and Coastal Protection
Ionian Enchantment
By the Sea: A Stewardship System for the Long Island Sound Ecosystem
Donald Henne
Project Leader Southern New England - New York Bight Coastal Ecosystems
Program of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Public Access
to the Public Trust
Virginia Lee
Assistant Director, Rhode Island Sea Grant College Program, and
Megan Higgins, Coastal Policy Analyst, RI Coastal Resources
Management Council
Break
Changing
Preferences for Environmental Amenities in the Coastal Zone: The Implications
of Population Growth for Natural Resource Values and Policy
Robert J. Johnston
Associate Director Connecticut Sea Grant College Program and Assistant
Professor Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University
of Connecticut
Use of
a Policy Simulation Laboratory for Consensus Building on Growth Management
in the Coastal Zone
James J. Opaluch
Professor of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University
of Rhode Island
4:30 Adjourn
