The San Francisco Estuary faces complex challenges for communities and nature, including improving water quality while also protecting shoreline habitats, infrastructure, and frontline communities from sea level rise and flooding. Policy drivers at the local, state, and federal level all push toward the use of nature-based approaches that incorporate green solutions at the shoreline at rapid pace to meet the urgent needs of our region. Meanwhile, centering community voices and building trust requires patient and purposeful relationship building. So how do we speed up the pace of adaptation while slowing down the intentional process of equity-centered community engagement?
Hosted by the Bay Area Regional Collaborative, the San Francisco Estuary Partnership and Association of Bay Area Governments, this special session for SF Climate Week focused on community-driven work and the intersection of nature-based design solutions and SLR adaptation for the SF Bay shoreline.
Projects + Speaker Lineup
Nature-based Solutions Overview - Heidi Nutters, Principal Program Manager, San Francisco Estuary Partnership
Oakland-Alameda Adaptation Committee: Chris Guillard, Principal, CMG Landscape Architecture
North Richmond – Wildcat Watershed Initiative Naama Raz-Yaseef, Senior Manager – Climate Ready Watersheds, The Watershed Project and Tim Molette-Parks, Partner, Mithun
Palo Alto Horizontal Levee Project - Jennifer Adams, Environmental Justice Senior Program Manager, Nuestra Casa and Samantha Engelage, Senior Engineer, City of Palo Alto
Colma Creek Resilience Projects - Johnathan Perisho, Project Manager, San Mateo County Flood Control & Sea Level Rise Resiliency District (One Shoreline)