Agenda SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
Additional Speakers TBA
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM Board of Directors Meeting
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Refreshment Break
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 - LEADERSHIP DAY 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Registration Open
Concurrent Session 1 - Emergency Management Moderator – Kate Naughton, P.E., Hazen & Sawyer
9:30 AM – 11:30 AM Annual Meeting of State Representatives
Best Practices for Conducting Virtual Exercises Ben Claggett, P.E., Bureau of Reclamation
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Regional Lunch Meetings
Next Steps in Emergency Planning: Getting to Know Your First Responders
12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Stephen Jamieson, P.E., W. W. Wheeler & Associates, Inc.
Speaker Preview Room Open Effective Emergency Exercise Planning Practices 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Alicia Baehr and Kelly Strife, Gannett Fleming
FERC – State Coordination Workshop 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Concurrent Session 2 - Lessons to Be Learned from Dam
Kick-off Event at the Country Music Hall of Fame*
Failures Part 1 Moderator – Mark Baker, P.E., DamCrest Consulting
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 7:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Analysis of Forensic Investigation Approaches for Dam Failures
Speaker Preview Room Open
and Incidents Nathaniel Gee, P.E., Tennessee Valley Authority; Mark Baker, P.E.,
7:00 AM – 5:30 PM
DamCrest Consulting; Lee Mauney, P.E., CFM, HDR
Registration Open Seminary Hill Reservoir Failure, Centralia WA, 1991 7:00 AM – 8:30 AM
Douglas L. Johnson, P.E., Federal Energy Regulatory
Continental Breakfast
Commission
7:00 AM – 1:00 PM
The Next Chapter of DamFailures.org
Exhibit Hall Set Up
Gregory L. Richards, P.E., CFM, Gannett Fleming, Inc.
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Cause and Consequence of the Fujinuma Dam Failure during
Opening General Session – Dam Safety, Beyond Engineering.
the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Paul Risher, P.E., HDR
Managing weather and climate risks: Ensuing opportunities for reducing consequences Roger S. Pulwarty Ph.D., Senior Scientist, NOAA Ocean and Atmospheric Research, Earth System Research Laboratory Physical Sciences Division