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2018 Great Lakes Adaptation Forum

9:30am EDT

Registration Begins Assembly Hall

10:00am EDT

USDN Innovation Fund Project Meeting Earl Lewis Room

12:30pm EDT

Beverage Service Begins Assembly Hall

1:00pm EDT

Detroit Community Climate: What's Working, What's Needed, How to Take Climate Work to the Next Level Ampitheatre Northeast Indigenous Climate Resilience Network Meeting East Conference Room Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement Annex 9 Extended Subcommittee Meeting West Conference Room

2:30pm EDT

Coffee & Snack Break Assembly Hall

3:00pm EDT

Student Career Panel Ampitheatre Developing Opportunities for Indigenous Peoples and Tribal Communities in the NCA Process East Conference Room

4:00pm EDT

Great Lakes Climate Adaptation Network (GLCAN) Meeting Earl Lewis Room

4:30pm EDT

Student Networking Reception Ann Arbor Brewing Company

6:00pm EDT

Reception for University of Michigan Alumni Ann Arbor Brewing Company

8:00am EDT

Breakfast & Registration Assembly Hall

9:00am EDT

Welcome Plenary: Opening Remarks & Keynote Address Ampitheatre

10:45am EDT

Break Assembly Hall

11:00am EDT

Beyond Borders: Feds Moving Forward Bigly on Adaptation East Conference Room Finance & Funding: What's New in Adaptation Finance Ampitheatre Innovation & Technology: Using Environmental Sensor Networks to Support Climate Adaptation Efforts at the Watershed Scale Earl Lewis Room Leadership at all Levels: Lessons Learned from Climate Action Planning in Three Cities West Conference Room

12:15pm EDT

Climate 101 & Ask a Climatologist East Conference Room Growing the Climate Assessment Community: Early Career Leadership Opportunities West Conference Room Lunch Assembly Hall

1:30pm EDT

Afternoon Plenary: Presentation of Regional Adaptation Leadership Award Ampitheatre

2:00pm EDT

Break Assembly Hall

2:15pm EDT

Beyond Borders: Eliminating Barriers: Low-cost Opportunities for Engaging Limited-resourced Communities in Climate Adaptation East Conference Room Funding & Finance: Financing Resilient Water Infrastructure Ampitheatre Innovation & Technology: Resilient Buildings for a Changing Climate Earl Lewis Room Leadership at all Levels: From Planning to Action - How Tribal Communities are Leading Resilience Efforts in the Region West Conference Room

3:30pm EDT

Break Assembly Hall

3:45pm EDT

Beyond Borders: Assessing Vulnerability and Defining Adaptive Measures for Forest and Wetland Ecosystems East Conference Room Funding & Finance: GLISA's Small Grants Program: Announcement of 2018 Competition and Highlights of Past Grantees Ampitheatre Innovation & Technology: Old Roots, New Shoots: Innovative Delivery of Adaptation Information and Tools in Forestry and Natural Resources Earl Lewis Room Leadership at all Levels: How Public Health Works at Multiple Levels to Protect Human Health from Climate Change West Conference Room

5:30pm EDT

Reception The Graduate Hotel

7:30am EDT

Breakfast & Registration Assembly Hall

8:30am EDT

Workshop: Building a Midwestern Resilience Index Earl Lewis Room Workshop: Conserving Nature’s Stage: Building a Network to Sustain Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Ampitheatre Workshop: Introducing the North American Adaptation Evaluation Toolkit: Overview and early feedback discussion about a new online tool to support evaluation of adaptation programs West Conference Room Workshop: Visualizing Climate, Physical and Socioeconomic Data to Build Climate Resilience East Conference Room

9:30am EDT

Break Assembly Hall

9:45am EDT

Workshop: Enhancing Decision Making and Discoverability of Adaptation Information through Interoperability Among Key Knowledge Brokers East Conference Room Workshop: ERIT: The Place to Go for Resilience Tools, Training, and Triumphs Ampitheatre Workshop: Interactive Case Studies for Adaptation Exchange Earl Lewis Room Workshop: Quiet Before the Storm – Innovation in Climate Change Adaptation Planning West Conference Room

10:45am EDT

Break Assembly Hall

11:00am EDT

Beyond Borders: Collaborative Adaptation Planning: Protecting the Shared Environment through Tribal and Local/Regional Partnerships East Conference Room Funding & Finance: Catalyzing Local Adaptation: Bringing Private Capital to Resilience Investment Ampitheatre Innovation & Technology: From Fields to Forecasts: Participatory Practices for Engaging Farmers in Climate Conversations and Solutions Earl Lewis Room Leadership at all Levels: Putting Leadership into Practice in Canada and U.S. – Examples of Local Governments Adapting to Climate Change Amidst Shifting Policy Contexts West Conference Room

12:15pm EDT

Climate 101 & Ask a Climatologist East Conference Room Climate-Resistant Energy Systems West Conference Room Lunch Assembly Hall

1:30pm EDT

Closing Plenary: Defining and Mapping a Pathway to Successful Resilience Ampitheatre

2:15pm EDT

Beyond Borders: Calumet Stormwater Collaborative: A Regional Model of Cross-jurisdictional Collaboration in Climate Resilience Planning West Conference Room Funding & Finance: Walking the Talk: Creative Finance and Partnerships across the City of Ann Arbor: Part 1 Ampitheatre Innovation & Technology: Enabling Climate and Social Vulnerability Assessment for Cities: Part 1 Earl Lewis Room Leadership at all Levels: Climate Change Adaptation in Rural Contexts West Conference Room

3:30pm EDT

Break Assembly Hall

3:45pm EDT

Beyond Borders: Great Lakes Design Labs: Designing with Change East Conference Room Funding & Finance: Walking the Talk: Creative Finance and Partnerships across the City of Ann Arbor: Part 2 Ampitheatre Innovation & Technology: Enabling Climate and Social Vulnerability Assessment for Cities: Part 2 Earl Lewis Room Leadership at all Levels: Climate Adaptation at the Neighborhood Level: Connecting Communities Around the Region West Conference Room