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"A network of networks" - GLAF 2016 will bring together practitioners and researchers from across the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States for 3 days of sharing climate adaptation and resilience solutions and products in an engaged learning program.
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Gene Clark

Wisconsin Sea Grant
Coastal Engineering Specialist
Mr. Clark has over 35 years of coastal engineering design experience, including the last thirteen years as the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institutes Coastal Engineering Specialist and the Universities Lake Superior field office outreach manager. The coastal engineering specialist portion of his position focuses on serving Great Lakes communities, state and local agencies providing shoreline development Best Management Practice (BMP) education, coastal erosion process and erosion control guidance, and commercial port/harbor/marina technical engineering assistance (infrastructure & dredging issues including beneficial use of dredged material). Mr. Clark began his professional coastal engineering career with the USACE Hydraulic Laboratory and the Coastal Engineering Research Center at the Waterways Experiment Station (WES) in Vicksburg, MS. While at WES, Mr. Clark was involved with coastal process and structure evaluations (harbor sand bypassing designs) as well as innovative dredging research. As a Great Lakes practicing Coastal Engineer, Mr. Clark is licensed in the states of Wisconsin and Minnesota and has extensive Great Lakes coastal engineering shoreline processes, coastal structures and project infrastructure design consulting experience. He also serves the Great Lakes ports and harbors with port infrastructure and especially the beneficial use of dredged material education and outreach of science-based, non-advocacy information.