Join us for this month’s N-EWN Knowledge Series, “The Evolution of a Resilient Coastal Community: Over 20 Years of Beaches, Back Bays, Rivers and Stormwater in Norfolk, Virginia.” This month’s speakers are Brian Joyner from Moffatt & Nichol and Kelli Cunningham from Waggoner & Ball.
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Since 2003, the City of Norfolk, Virginia has been investigating coastal/estuarine/river erosion issues, compound urban coastal flooding issues, developing long-range resilience plans, and constructing infrastructure projects to improve its diverse communities’ resilience to coastal flooding. Norfolk won one of the 2016 HUD National Disaster Resilience Competition (NDRC) projects and has completed design and construction of that Ohio Creek Watershed NDRC project. The City has also been partnering with the US Navy through the Joint Land Use Study (JLUS) process and with USACE through its Coastal Storm Risk Management (CSRM) project, with the first projects from the authorized CSRM currently in construction design phase. This presentation will give a high level overview of the City’s program to date and provide lessons learned in the processes of community engagement, how the planning process of the Dutch Dialogues led to significant funding streams to streamline project implementation, innovative and practical engineering and architectural design, and construction of nature-based, resilience-enhancing projects (beaches, living shorelines, and stormwater) in an area challenged by geotechnical, topographical and prior development constraints.
Brian Joyner is a coastal engineer with the consulting firm Moffatt & Nichol. He is located in Norfolk, Virginia. He has 27 years of coastal and riverine studies and design experience, primarily in numerical and physical modeling; design of flood protection, breakwaters and other port and urban waterfront related facilities. He is currently leading resilience planning with climate change factors in multiple US East Coast cities. He is a Deputy Program Manager for the Norfolk, Virginia Coastal Storm Risk Management (CSRM) program consultant team, responsible for program leadership and overall direction of engineering study and design tasks for flood barrier systems, interior drainage, and wetland mitigation and Nature Based Solutions. Since 2020, Brian has also served as PIANC USA representative to PIANC’s Permanent Task Group on Climate Change, where he assists with updating and promoting PIANC guidance on resilience and adaptation of waterborne transport infrastructure and operations, relative to both open-coast and inland navigation.
Kelli Cunningham is a leader in Waggonner & Ball’s resilience practice, working across disciplines and scales to create holistic design strategies to anticipate and mitigate the effects of climate change on coastal urban environments. Kelli joined Waggonner & Ball in 2016 after receiving Master Degrees in both Architecture and Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University. She works to build long-term client and collaborators relationships and is involved in the project definition phase, helping clients to identify their needs and set the course for Waggonner & Ball to deliver layered and particular design strategies and solutions. Kelli is spearheading the firm’s efforts in Coastal Connecticut on the Resilient Bridgeport project comprised of the Rebuild by Design funded stormwater park and the National Disaster Resilience funded flood risk reduction program. The ongoing Resilient Bridgeport project improves the resilience of a historic coastal neighborhood through the integration coastal flood defense system into the historic, Olmsted designed Seaside Park.
Moffatt & Nichol has provided the following Storymaps for additional information:
St. Paul’s Blue/Greenway
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/cc361b66d93a4f88bc0fb78bf64bdb87
Chesapeake Industrial Waterfront Study
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5ef59ba587a3494e8820a2296e87a5ce
Downtown, Phoebus, and Buckroe Water Plan
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/2b81e3a0262a46698f54cd405c3c1f62
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