Urban Green Infrastructure Summit Presentations

Session 1: Landscape scale challenges and management (Session Chair: Derek Godwin, OSU)


Morning Keynote:

  • Sarah Medary: Leading Transformation and Change – A Landscape Architect’s Journey

Presentations

  • Scott Altenhoff: Using the Collective Impact Framework & Adaptive Management Techniques to Promote More Effective and Widespread Green Infrastructure
  • Bruce Roll: Broadening the Scope to Increase Resilience: Expanding Stormwater Management Beyond Regulated Areas
  • Carrie Sanneman: Side Effects May Include: Cost Savings, Collaboration, Resilience

Session 2: Green Stormwater Infrastructure (Session Chair: Ani Jayakaran, WSU)

Luncheon Keynote panel:

  • Chris Obropta & Rosana Da Silva: Community-based Green Infrastructure Initiative in New Jersey

Presentations

  • Bob Simmons:  WSU Extension’s Green Stormwater Infrastructure Programming Experiences
  • Sarah Whitney: Action Through Understanding – Incentivizing Voluntary Green Stormwater Infrastructure
  • Doug Howie: Green Stormwater Infrastructure in Washington State: Status and Trends
  • Joe Cook: Economics of Green Stormwater Infrastructure

Session 3Non-traditional, Non-water Green Infrastructure Issues and Ideas (Session Chair: Kevan Moffett, WSU)

Presentations

  • Jennifer Karps:  Trees as a Tool for Equity
  • Vivek Shandas:  Trees as Green Infrastructure: Implications of expanding urban canopy on urban heat, air quality, and residential energy use in the Portland metropolitan region
  • Yekang Ko PhD: Socioeconomic and policy implications from a long-term monitoring of Sacramento Shade trees
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