SAME RCOI Webinar: Climate Change: Adapting to Sea Level Rise

Dr. May is an engineer and scientist with approximately 30 years of experience providing leadership and technical expertise related to climate change resilience and adaptation strategy development, with an emphasis on coastal environments and extreme weather hazard analysis. In addition to her scientific and technical expertise, Kris is currently serving as lead author for the national Coastal chapter for the 5th National Climate Assessment, and she served as a regional lead author on the 4th National Climate Assessment. She has a solid understanding of the best available climate science, and the policies and guidance in place locally and nationally that are driving climate change adaptation planning.

Kris has served as a technical advisor on the Mayor of San Francisco’s Sea Level Rise Committee for over a decade, continuing to help the County of San Francisco develop and adopt award-winning climate change planning policies. Kris also has an extensive bench of knowledge on the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission’s (BCDC’s) Adapting to Rising Tides program, from its inception in 2011 with the first pilot project in Alameda County thru to the 2022 release of the Adapting to Rising Tides Roadmap for Resilience. She currently serves as a Coastal Engineer on BCDC’s Engineering Criteria Review Board.

Alex Braud is an Environmental Scientist and GIS Specialist at the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI). His background reflects this position, intersecting the fields of spatial analysis, coastal resilience, environmental economics, and urban planning. Alex has earned a Master of Environmental Studies and Master of Public Administration from the College of Charleston as well as bachelor’s degrees from his hometown’s Louisiana State University in both Geography and Disaster Science & Management. Prior to joining SFEI, Alex focused on regional sediment issues at the San Francisco Bay Conservation & Development Commission as a NOAA Coastal Management Fellow.

Emily Corwin is a Senior Engineer at the Fairfield-Suisun Sewer District, where she is creating partnerships and field examples to bring innovative nature-based climate resiliency solutions to the Solano Bayshore region in the San Francisco Bay. These projects combine the conservation and restoration of critical ecosystems with the selective use of conventional engineering approaches. Emily studied Hydrology at the University of California Davis, Environmental Engineering at the University of California Berkeley, and founded the Global Green-Gray Community of Practice at Conservation International. She also is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers Committee on Natural and Nature-based Infrastructure Systems, manages the Solano Stormwater Alliance, and co-chair of the Solano Bayshore Resiliency Roundtable

Summer Bundy is a Regional Sector Leader for Climate Change Adaptation at Stantec. She is an environmental engineer, climate scientist, and program manager with 25 years of experience in public water infrastructure. Summer has spent most of her career where technical challenges meet policy-driven solutions. These include projects such as the Port of San Francisco’s Waterfront Resilience Program, where she served as the consultant team’s planning lead to develop alternatives for adapting 7.5’ of waterfront to increase earthquake and coastal flood resilience. She is a passionate about stakeholder-driven climate action, with a primary focus on critical infrastructure adaptation to achieve equitable community resilience. Summer has a B.S. in environmental resources engineering from Cal Poly Humboldt and is currently earning her M.S. in Energy Policy and Climate at Johns Hopkins University. She holds the Water Edge Design Guidelines associate certification from the Water Alliance.