Outline for workshop facilitation done October 4, 2012 at the Dutch Embassy in Washington DC on developing a collaboration of universities in the US along with their counterparts in the Netherlands. From this collaboration would spring a knowledge exchange platform using the university institutes dealing with water, adaptation and resilience.

1. The US-Netherlands Connection Program
Academic Teams Program Workshop
October 5, 2012
Royal Netherlands Embassy, Washington DC

2. Agenda
Agenda
10 AM Welcome by Embassy & introductions of meeting
participants
10:30 AM Collaboration objectives
11:00 AM The Dutch Perspective – Dale Morris, Senior Economic
Advisor, Dutch Embassy will moderate a discussion with Dutch
participants teleconferenced
12:00 PM Working Lunch – The Interest Matrix – Group will
develop a matrix of focus based on interests of the individual
institutes. This will facilitate developing a meaningful experience
for those who make up each knowledge exchange team and how
those teams branch out to interest centers

3. Agenda (cont.)
Agenda
1:45-2:15 Breakouts: refining the focus & division of labor
Subgroup composition, topics & questions
Remember: websites, teleconferences
Proposal:
2:15-2:30 Report: seek consensus 3:00 PM Funding
opportunities
3:30 PM Review assignments and Adjourn
back Interim and final outputs – Plenary (travel) sessions, Reports, recommendations,
white papers, data accumulation & dissemination

4. Agenda (cont.)
Agenda
1:45-2:15 Breakout sessions: Focus & division of labor
Committee formats and responsibilities
Funding and Sponsorships
Websites – creating a virtual community through our cluster site and
using CAKEX as a repository
Science
Policy – Both from a legal and operational perspective
Business/Economics
Interim and final outputs – Plenary (travel) sessions, Reports,
recommendations, white papers, data accumulation &
dissemination
3:00 PM Funding opportunities
3:30 PM Review assignments and Adjourn

5. Introductions
• Netherlands Embassy
• Florida Earth Participants
• University Representatives
• Agency Representatives
• Private Sector

6. Florida Earth International Programs
• UNESCO-IHE/Florida Earth Partnership
• Comparative Water Law Course for Law Schools
• US-Netherlands Connection Project’s
Professional Teams Program
• US-Netherlands Connection Project’s Academic
Teams Program

7. PBS Documentary

8. UNESCO-IHE
“The Institute for Water Education”
• Located in Delft, the
Netherlands
• Type 1 UNESCO Center
as a JV with Netherlands
– MSc and PhD degrees in
Water Disciplines
– Designed to benefit
developing countries
• Approximately 220
Masters and 150 PhD
candidates
• Approximately 120
countries

9. UNESCO-IHE/Florida Earth Partnership
• Begun in 2005
• Over 110 alumni
• Student now professor, Dr. Leonardo Alfonso
• MOU based
Signing of UNESCO-IHE/Florida Earth MOU in March 2005

10. 2012 Hydroinformatics Students

11. Comparative Water Law Course
• Begun in 2011
• Three Law Schools
– St. Thomas University
– Barry University
– Ave Maria University
• Doubled in size in 2012

12. US-Netherlands Connection Project
Professional Teams Program
• Begun in 2007
• Two teams in 2010 and
2011
– Engineering team with
USACE
– Policy Team with USGS &
USGCRP
• One team in May 2012
w/ both interest groups

14. US-Netherlands University Collaboration
“The Linnean Group”
• Interdisciplinary education & research:
– Engage graduate students, faculty, water professionals and
business sustainability officers; train future leaders
• Continuing long-term global exchange:
– Start with Florida & Netherlands
– Plan for global program
– Directed towards developing urban coastal world
– Target audience: coastal community – business & gov’t

15. US-Netherlands University
Sea Level Rise Adaptation Collaboration
• Resource for solutions:
– Website: shared information; literature review & existing info
– Initial output: identify the players, and the missing partners
• Web-based seminar series: Room for the River / Living with Water;
Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact
• Focus on urban coastal infrastructure in Florida and the Netherlands.
Explore the local risks, environment, needs, economy, governance?
• Netherlands: who is engaged in the dialogue, and why?
• Florida: who is missing, and why should they be participating?
– Future outputs: ask & answer questions
• Directed towards needs of sponsors?
• Dreaming big: case studies in London, Venice, India, China, Jakarta
– Use interdisciplinary networks & skills
– Benefit from deliberative Dutch decisionmaking approach

16. SKILLS AND INTERESTS
St. Thomas Smithsonian Stanford Woods Duke Nicholas School:
Envtl Sustainability; Research ecologists: Institute: 300 graduate envtl
negotiation, citizen GCC & blue carbon; Interdisc. Solutions; students, 62 faculty;
suits, law, ethics, values Florida mangroves; Ecosystem services; energy, economics,
and barriers people, landuse, adaptation planning; hydrology, GCC &
shorelines, estuaries grey vs. green carbon sequestration,
UNH / Paul: interdisc, infrastructure; coastal ecosystems,
water mngt, microfin & Tufts/Richard: water modeling; food security peat accretion & SLR
W.Africa; decision mngt as connector for & envt; freshwater
analysis & urban grad schools; law,
adaption diplomacy, engr, health;
GCC adaptation; IWRM
Rice Shell Center: CH2M Hill: LSU: coastal wetlands & Suzanne / Netherlands:
interdisc. Envtl interdisciplinary skills & sustainability; comparative
research; Gulf Coastal training of future geomorphology; perspective
science consortium leaders; confront policy interdisciplinary & Netherlands & Va &
(consensus driven); challenge (ie. NC law social sciences nexus; Cali; cultural & language
Study & research re: requiring no SLR Training future issues
social & economic consideration)
indicators

17. Participant Skills & Interests
AZ State Jennifer: NOAA Laura: Climate USC Int’l perspective EBA (Tacy, Jeff): Public
Global Inst. Program Office, (Iraq salt marshes); / relations, editing, risk
Sustainability: supports science & Northeastern: fisheries management,
280 sustainability provides US info; focus, collaboration sustainability
scientists; research coastal services center with U.Amsterdam; connections to bottom
institute & school; in Charl, SC focus on urban & regional policy line & sustainability
broad range of SLR; part of US agency
interests, adapt to decision-making
program needs; GCC consortium; fisheries,
faculty with int’l shellfish & SLR
perspectives; wrap
around decision theatre
to visualize
Zurich (Lindene): use Corps (Andy) ops; R&D; UCSB Bob: water mngt, Jantienne: comp.
collaboration info; disaster mngt & SLR; coastal & fisheries; GCC; studies; promote
overcome $$ barriers to coastal change & grad intern prog & outputs within
sustainability; effects; ecosystem visiting scholars Netherlands;
Enhance policy & services; H2o supply; exchange; science, Dale: facilitate the plan
decision analysis; need species; economic policy & negotiation & for US-Neth connection,
uniformity; quality data policy assessments; decisionmaking stopping the bad
& info repository & use urban water interface; information; educate &
(akin to Defense); modeling; training! IWR inform re: cost-benefit
info, assistance, int’l analysis

18. Interim and Final Outputs
Reports, recommendations, white papers, data
accumulation & dissemination
• http://usnc.tallyfox.com
• http://cakex.org
• http://globalchange.gov
• http://sense.nl

19. Plenary Sessions
Who, Where and How
• US Institutes in the Netherlands
– http://www.floridaearth.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=pa
ges.2012USNC&
– Duration?
– Concept of one initial team that spokes out if desired
by individual institutes
• Netherlands Institutes in US
– First program in South Florida
– Everglades for natural systems perspective
– Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties for a
built environment perspective

20. Timeline
• Early October 2012 - Organizational meetings of the US Institutes Academic
Advisory
• Committee and the SENSE Institutes Advisory Committee
• Late October 2012 - Complete budget development & allocation of financial
responsibility
• December 2012 - Selection of USNC Academic Teams Members
• January 2013 - Release of CAKEX-USNC website section
• March-April 2013 -Knowledge Exchange Preliminary Trips by U.S. &
Netherlands directors
• May 2013 - Florida Earth distributes pre-program materials
• Late June 2013 - USNC American Team in the Netherlands
• Mid July 2013 - USNC Dutch Team in the US
• Late August 2013 - USNC American Team Report Due
• Late September 2013 - USNC Dutch Team Report Due
• 2014? - Development of Combined Collaboration Report?

21. Committee Formats & Responsibilities
• Funding and Sponsorships
• Websites – creating a virtual community through our cluster
site and using CAKEX as a repository
• Science
• Policy – Both from a legal and operational perspective
• Business/Economics

22. Funding Opportunities
Grants? Team
PIRE Stan/Keith
NSF Brian
AID Paul
GIF Clint/Robert
Greenfund Debbie
IGRT
Lincoln Land Institute
Socioeconomic
Environmental Center
(Annapolis MD) SENCY
NATO
Climate Consensus (Zurich)
IWR
BOA
shell

23. Next steps
FEF Tasks Other
• Bios • Plan next meeting, including
• Webinars Dutch universities
– Living with Water • Expand group to add
(Netherlands) planners, economists, policy
– South Florida Regional officials
Climate Compact
• Expand Professionals
program allow exchange
student participation