LISTEN: America Adapts Podcast Spotlights N.J. Coastal & Climate Resilience Conference

The America Adapts podcast has released a special episode that delves into the proceedings of the New Jersey Coastal & Climate Resilience Conference, hosted in March by the NJCRC and New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Host Doug Parsons interviewed 13 speakers and attendees about their takeaways from the conference, work in the field, and observations on how climate change is impacting New Jersey communities.

A YouTube version of the two-hour podcast is available below. Visit the episode page for links to listen on your favorite podcast platform.

The speakers on the podcast (in order of appearance) are:

• Nick Angarone: Chief Resilience Officer, New Jersey Dept of Environmental Protection
• Shawn LaTourette: Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
• Terry Doss: Director, Meadowlands Research and Restoration Institute
• Tony MacDonald: Director, Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute
• Elizabeth Semple: Director of Adaptation, The Nature Conservancy – New Jersey
• Nick Brown: Climate Scientist and Advocate, HDR
• Nathaly Agosto Filion: Deputy Chief Climate Resilience Officer, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
• A.R. Siders: Director, Gerard J. Mangone Climate Change Science and Policy Hub at the University of Delaware
• Tom Herrington: Associate Director, Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute
• Laura Kerr: Senior Research Engineer, Stevens Institute of Technology
• Jon Miller: Research Associate Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology
• Nora Morton: Student, Horace Greeley High School (N.Y.)
• Monika Serrano: Resilience Program Manager, Turner Construction

With a theme of “Adapting to Change – Creating Resilient Communities,” the conference gathered 300 attendees and nearly 150 speakers for three days of wide-ranging discussions on the challenges facing the state’s diverse coastal environments. Slides for many of the speakers and the agenda can be viewed on the conference web page.