2024 Resilience in the Natural and Built Environments Symposium

Cameron Riopelle, Director of Research Data & Open Scholarship and a Librarian Associate Professor at the University of Miami Libraries, facilitated a group of participants during the workshop session at the 2024 Resilience Symposium.
Annie Lord, Executive Director of Miami Homes for All, and Carlos Martin, Director of the Remodeling Futures Program at Harvard University, in a conversation about housing as a tool for resilience.
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine-Cava provided opening remarks at the 2024 Symposium.
The UMCRA's Jen Posner moderated a panel on community-scale infrastructure with (l to r) Maria Nardi (Miami-Dade County Parks), Germane Barnes (UM School of Architecture), Marta Viciedo (Knight Foundation), and Avra Jain (Vagabond Group).

On April 24, 2024, the University of Miami’s Climate Resilience Academy hosted a symposium exploring natural and built resilience infrastructure. With local and global experts, we examined challenges, assessed what is to be learned from work to date, what still needs to be addressed, and how to increase momentum in response to accelerating climate impacts.

 

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2024 Resilience Symposium Agenda

Speaker Bios

8:30 - 9:00 Arrival and Registration

9:00 – 9:10 Intro and Welcome

  • Jim Murley – Miami-Dade County Office of Resilience 

9:10 – 10:00 Opening Keynote panel – Housing that Builds Resilience 

  • Carlos Martin – Harvard University 
  • Annie Lord – Miami Homes For All 

 

Morning Discussion: Community-Scale Infrastructure

10:00 - 10:30 Research Brief--Greenness and Health Impact

  •  Benita Hussain - American Forests

10:30 – 11:15 “In conversation” about Community-Scale Infrastructure

  • Maria Nardi - Miami-Dade County
  • Marta Viciedo - Knight Foundation 
  • Germane Barnes - UM School of Architecture
  • Avra Jain - Vagabond Group

 

11:15 - 11:30 Coffee/networking break

 

 Afternoon Discussion: Large Infrastructure/Marine and Coastal Protection  

11:30 – 12:00 Research Brief – Large-scale infrastructure and coastal protection 

  •  David Erdman - Pratt Institute

12:00 – 12:50 “In conversation” about Large-Scale Infrastructure

  • Colonel Terrence "Rock" Salt (Ret.) - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  • Rachel Silverstein - Miami Waterkeeper 
  • Henk Ovink - Global Commission on the Economics of Water 

12:50 – 2:00 Lunch

2:00 – 3:00 Roundtable Discussions: Opportunities and Obstacles to Better Infrastructure

Through these sessions, we encourage an “all-hands-on-deck” approach where participants will make new connections to enhance their projects, research, and community priorities.

3:00 – 3:15 Coffee Break

3:15 – 3:45 Roundtable discussion report-backs

3:45 – 4:15 Closing Keynote - Jainey Bavishi in conversation with Michael Berkowitz 

  • Jainey Bavishi- Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Deputy Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

SYMPOSIUM ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Esber Andiroglu, Associate Professor and Director of MS in Construction Management, College of Engineering

Amy Clement, Professor, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science

Naresh Kumar, Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Miller School of Medicine

Joanna Lombard, Professor, School of Architecture

Imelda Moise, Associate Professor of Geography and Sustainable Development; Director of Global Health Studies

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Malcolm Matheson Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Master of Urban Design Program

 

SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Michael Berkowitz, Joanna Lombard, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jen Posner

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