Sea Level Rise: Causes, Impacts and Options for Solutions

Sea Level Rise: Causes, Impacts and Options for Solutions Perspectives from science and the stakeholder community Keynote Speaker: The Honorable Scott Stringer, New York City Comptroller Program participants will include: Jainey Bavishi, Director, Office of Recovery and Resiliency, Office of the Mayor, New York City Robin E. Bell, Palisades Geophysical Institute/Lamont Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, The Earth Institute, Columbia University James L. Davis, Lamont Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, The Earth Institute, Columbia University George Deodatis, Robertina Calatrava Family Professor of Civil Engineering and Chair, Department of Civil Engineering, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University Kate Orff, Landscape Architect and Founder, SCAPE Landscape Architecture DPC; Director, Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design Program, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University Peter Schlosser, Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics and Chair, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science; Associate Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University Gavin Schmidt, Climatologist, climate modeler and Director, NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), The Earth Institute, Columbia University; Co-founder, award winning climate science blog RealClimate Marla Schwartz, Atmospheric Perils Specialist, Assistant Vice President of Group Underwriting, Swiss Re