Regional Collaboration on Climate Resilience and Green Infrastructure in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ms. Kelly Malinowski

Regional Collaboration on Climate Resilience and Green Infrastructure in the San Francisco Bay Area: the Promise, the Progress, and the Implementation Challenges

Lecture by Ms. Kelly Malinowski

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

6:00pm to 7:30pm

McGowan Building Room 102

411 Pacific Street, Monterey, CA 93940

Free, open to the public.  No registration required.

Video Available

• Regional Collaboration on Climate Resilience and Green Infrastructure in the San Francisco Bay Area

About the Topic

In this talk, Ms. Malinowski will provide an overview of the state of climate work in the San Francisco Bay Area, including progress to date, Measure AA, regional collaboration on climate adaptation and the various stakeholder groups involved, the state of living shorelines and green infrastructure science and implementation on the West Coast, and any gaps and anticipated next steps in getting to implementation of adaptation strategies. If time allows, she will also provide an update on San Francisco Bay Area Environmental Justice Work and best practices, the latest thinking on infrastructure financing in the region, and case studies on climate relocation and managed retreat.

About the Speaker

Kelly Malinowski is a Project Manager and Climate Change Specialist with the California State Coastal Conservancy, in the San Francisco Bay Program. Over her past 5+ years at the Conservancy, Kelly has grown the Conservancy’s Climate Ready Program, developed the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority’s Grant Program, co-led climate vulnerability assessment efforts in partnership with local jurisdictions, and works regionally to further nature-based climate adaptation. In 2017, she co-founded the Women’s Alliance for Climate Justice, a network of over 90+ women working in climate change and equity in the San Francisco Bay Area. Before her time at the Conservancy, Kelly worked on marine debris and ocean policy with Save Our Shores, Ocean Champions, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium.  Kelly is a graduate of the Middlebury Institute, with a Master’s of Public Administration in International Environmental Policy and Management, (MPA ‘13)

Resources to Learn More

• On Regional Collaboration:
  • SF Bay Specific:
    • Sea-Level Rise and the Governance Gap in the San Francisco Bay Area
    • The Governance of Sea Level Rise in the San Francisco Bay Area: results from a survey of stakeholders
  • Best Practices/Resources:
    • Report from the Southeast Florida Regional Compact: “Regional Collaboratives for Climate Change – A State of Art”
    • Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN): Network Building Resources
      
       
• On Green Infrastructure and Living Shorelines:
  • Living Shorelines and Green Infrastructure Resource List
  • Statewide:
    • Coastal Adaptations Strategies: Integrating Science and Policy
    • Natural Capital Project Mapping Tool
  • Bay Area
    • San Francisco Estuary Institute Adaptation Atlas
      
       
• On Environmental Justice:  
  • Government Alliance on Race and Equity
  • Guidance for engaging communities:
    • From Community Engagement to Ownership
  • Guidance for funding and policy makers:
    • Social Equity in California Climate Change Grants: Making the Promise Real
    • Asian Pacific Environmental Network’s Mapping Resilience Report
  • Infrastructure Financing:
    • Bay Area:
      • Resilient by Design Finance Advisory Team’s Finance Guide
    • Climate Relocation/Managed Retreat:
      • Managed Retreat as a Response to Natural Hazard Risk
      • When Rising Seas Hit Home: Hard Choices Ahead for Hundreds of US Coastal Communities
      • This is What America Could Look Like When Our Coasts Are Under Water

• Measure AA:
  • The ballot measure:
    • https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/SF-Bay-protection-Measure-AA-passes-7970365.php
  • The first round of funding:
    • https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/09/san-francisco-bay-18-million-in-new-funding-for-environmental-restoration/
  • Examples of projects funded:
    • San Rafael; $1M for a marsh restoration planning and design: https://www.marinij.com/2019/06/07/san-rafael-sea-level-rise-marsh-restoration-project-nabs-1m-grant/
    • Novato; $520,000 for wetlands restoration: https://www.marinij.com/2018/11/27/marin-county-gets-520000-grant-to-design-novato-wetlands-restoration-project/ 

Lecture Location:  McGowan 102

The McGowan Building is located at 411 Pacific Street, Monterey, CA  93940, on the corner of Franklin and Pacific. Enter from Pacific street through a set of glass double-doors (use set of doors on the right), MG102 is straight ahead across a small seating atrium.   View the campus map.

Parking

Parking is available in any Middlebury Institute campus lot after 5 p.m., or on the street (time limits on surrounding streets end at 6 p.m.)

Questions

Contact Rachel Christopherson at the Center for the Blue Economy at cbe@miis.edu or (831) 647-4183.