[MassHistPres] Keeping History Above Water Conference, Portsmouth, May 7-9

[Doherty, Jennifer (SEC)]

Keeping History Above Water has announced plans for their 2023 conference, to be held in Portsmouth, NH May 7 through 9.

"Water Has a Memory: Preserving Historic Port Cities from Sea Level Rise" (KHAW: Portsmouth 2023), May 7 to 9 includes both speaker sessions at the headquarters AC Hotel downtown and site visits to examine the challenges from land and sea.

The conference opens with a reception Sunday evening featuring as keynote Howard Mansfield, author of the Yankee Magazine cover story, "Rising Seas" and several books.

The preliminary program also includes:


*         How One Non-Profit is Tackling Climate Change, Margaret Back, Newport Restoration Foundation

*         NOAA's Flood Risk Assessment & Application Guide, Mark Osler, NOAA Senior Advisor for Coastal Inundation and Resilience

*         New Hampshire Coastal Flood Risk Assessment & Guidance, Cameron Wake, Research Professor, UNH Earth Systems Research Center and Josephine A. Lamprey, Professor in Climate and Sustainability at the UNH Sustainability Institute

*         "Water Has a Memory" Update: Peter Britz, City of Portsmouth Sustainability Director; Rodney Rowland, Strawbery Banke Facilities and Environmental Sustainability Director; Michael Routhier, UNH Geospatial Lab; Measuring & Monitoring with Well Sensors; Black Heritage Trail of NH groundwater sensor project; "Think Blue" Initiative, Brian Goetz, City of Portsmouth Deputy Director DPW

*         Testing the Flood Resiliency of Historic Materials, Kerry Shackleford and Paige Pollard, Building Resilient Solutions

*         Climate Action Planning at Historic New England: Preparing Historic Sites Now for Carbon Neutrality and Resilience, Ben Haavik, Historic New England Team Leader, Property Care

*         Salem's House of Seven Gables and MA Coastal Zone Management, Susan Baker, House of Seven Gables

*         The Provincetown MA Flood Plain: Preservation Case Studies Panel, Regina Binder

*         Implementing Resiliency Measures: A Case History of the Portsmouth's 1860 Historic Shaw Warehouse, Cassie Bethany, Weston + Sampson, Project Manager, Landscape Architecture

*         A site visit to examine how Strawbery Banke master plan process to deflect surface flooding from its 17th, 18th and 19th century buildings, with Horsley-Witten and PlaceWorks

*         A site visit examining the City's resiliency plan to raise and move the 1806 Shaw warehouse back from the waterfront, with Weston + Sampson, Inc.

*         Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Update: Role of the federal government in climate change policy development, Sara Bronin, Chair, ACHP, and Cornell University Fellow, Atkinson Center on Sustainability

*         A Tale of Three Storms: National Park Service superintendent's super-storm experiences at three NPS historic sites, Dave Luchsinger, former NPS Superintendent

*         Living Above the Street: Flood Retrofitting and Adaptive Streetscape of New York City's Historic Districts, Ziming Wang, M.S. Columbia University

*         Adapting to Change: How Portland, Maine, Is Dealing with Sea Level Rise, Preserving History, Ian Stevenson, Portland Landmark Commission & Gulf of Maine Research Institute

*         Kennebunk's Dock Square and Marginal Way in Ogunquit, Abbie Sherman, Southern Maine Planning & Development Commission

*         Increasing Climate Resiliency through Selective Dam Removal While Preserving Our Past, Quinn Stuart and Peter Walker, VHB Cultural and Environmental Services

For more information or to register, visit the conference website<https://historyabovewater.org/2023-portsmouth/>.


Jennifer B. Doherty
Local Government Programs Coordinator
Massachusetts Historical Commission
220 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125-3314
Office: (617) 727-8470
Remote: (617) 807-0685
Jennifer.Doherty at sec.state.ma.us<mailto:Jennifer.Doherty at sec.state.ma.us>

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