{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://murphy.house.gov/media/press-releases/repmurphy-host-first-annual-north-carolina-waters-summit", "Rep.Murphy to Host First Annual North Carolina WATERS Summit", "2021-10-05", "2021", "2021-10", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Gregory F. Murphy", "M001210", "murphy.house.gov", "murphy", "https://murphy.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Greenville, N.C. \u2013 Today, Rep. Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) announced that he will be hosting the first annual Water Adaptations to Ensure Regional Success (WATERS) Summit on Wednesday, October 13, 2021. The purpose of this bipartisan conference will be to hear from leading experts about human adaptation strategies to waterway challenges in North Carolina and develop legislative plans to combat these challenges over the next 5, 25, and 100-years. Summit attendees will cover a range of waterway issues, from flooding in inland streams, creeks, and rivers to hurricane mitigation and other marine coastal issues.\n\nRep. Greg Murphy, M.D. will be joined by Rep. David Rouzer (NC-07), Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) (virtual), Rep. G.K. Butterfield (NC-01), leading scientific and academic experts, and many state and local leaders.\n\nWATERS Summit presenters include:\n\nJay Faison, Chairman, American Flood Coalition\n\nDr. Ed Kearns, Ph.D., Chief Data Officer, First Street Foundation\n\nDr. Antonia Sebastian, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\n\nDr. Barbara Doll Ph.D., PE Associate Extension Professor and Extension Specialist, Biological & Agricultural Engineering Dept & NC Sea Grant, NC State University\n\nDr. Hans Paerl, Ph.D., Kenan Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences, UNC-CH Institute of Marine Sciences\n\nDr. Reide Corbett, Ph.D., Dean & Executive Director, Integrated Coastal Programs, Coastal Studies Institute, East Carolina University\n\nDr. Laura Moore, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences; Director, Collaboratory for Coastal Adaptation over Space and Time (C-CoAST), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\n\nMelissa Roberts, Founder and Executive Director, American Flood Coalition\n\nDave Canaan, Director, County Storm Water Engineering & Flood Mitigation, Mecklenburg County\n\nSaskia Pardaans, Senior Advisor on Infrastructure and Water Management at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands\n\nMatthijs Bouw, Dutch architect and urbanist and founder of One Architect (est. 1995), an award-winning Amsterdam and New York-based design and planning firm.\n\nMr. Mark Harrell, Expert in Water Adaptation from coastal Louisiana\n\nSpeaker Tim Moore\n\nLt. Governor Mark Robinson\n\nColonel Ben Bennett, Ph.D., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers\n\nDr. Greg Williams, Ph.D., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers\n\nDr. Joseph Long, Ph.D., Earth and Ocean Sciences Department, University of North Carolina-Wilmington\n\nMr. John Preyer/Mr. George Howard, Restoration Systems\n\nJohn Nicholson, Chief Deputy Secretary for the NC Department of Environmental Quality\n\nColin Mellor, Environmental Policy Advisor for the NC Department of Transportation\n\nTim Beard, US Department of Agriculture representative to the Natural Resources Conservation Service of North Carolina (Virtual)\n\nDr. Gavin Smith, Research Center at NC State University\n\nDr. Amanda Martin, NC Office of Recovery and Resiliency\n\nMembers of the public are invited to watch the WATERS Summit live via YouTube livestream on October 13, 2021 from 9:00am-4:30pm.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:24:51Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://murphy.house.gov/media/press-releases/repmurphy-host-first-annual-north-carolina-waters-summit"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8433670047670603, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}