The third seminar in our Living Deltas Delta Dialogue Series will focus on Nature-based Solutions (NBS). Our speakers will each present their work, followed by a panel discussion.
Participants will then be invited to contribute questions for our panel members.
We'll hear from:
Dr Haseeb Md Irfanullah about NBS in Bangladesh and how they've evolved over the last three years, including knowledge and capacity development, and how NBS found its place in national policies.
Dr Cai Ladd
“Over the past three decades, enormous efforts have been made to restore mangrove forests along the Vietnamese coast. Restoration is being primarily done as a Nature-based Solution to reduce coastal flooding and erosion, and to provide natural products for harvesting (e.g. fish, wood, honey). Long-term success of restoration depends on whether planted mangrove trees survive into maturity, which in turn depends on whether the site chosen for restoration planting is suitable. Around the world, many restoration programmes fail because waves, currents, and tides are too energetic for mangrove saplings to survive. We’ve developed a low-cost sensor, called the Mini Buoy, to allow managers to survey a site before planting. Areas of the coast can therefore be selected for, hopefully, successful mangrove restoration. I’ll be discussing how the Mini Buoy works, and how we’ve used them to predict the likely success of a mangrove restoration scheme in Vietnam’s Red River Delta.”
Dr Kelly Siman
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Our Speakers
Dr. Kelly Siman is a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions. Sitting at the nexus of science, technology, and policy, Dr. Siman works towards the betterment of humanity’s climate change grand challenge. Her current research work is focused on policy and implementation of achieving ASEAN member-states’ Nationally Determined Contributions through nature-based climate solutions. She has worked in academic, governance, and non-profit institutions across the United States, Antarctic, and Asia-Pacific. She was the Biomimicry Coastal Resiliency and Innovation Fellow working on policy and coastal resilience modeling for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, the Senior Research Scientist for the Cleveland Water Alliance, and Research Fellow for Project Drawdown. She is also Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer for Erie Open Systems, LLC – an open-source technology company that works to gather low-cost environmental monitoring data. Previously, she was Managing Director of the Pacific Voyagers Foundation and Senior Research Assistant at the LKYSPP. Dr. Siman volunteers significant time to science and community outreach, especially in classroom and informal educational engagement.
Dr Haseeb Md Irfanullah is an Independent Consultant - Environment, Climate Change, & Research System. He’s biologist-turned-development facilitator, who often introduces himself as a research enthusiast. Over the last two decades, Haseeb has worked for different international development organizations, academic institutions, donors, and the Government of Bangladesh in different capacities. Currently, he is an independent consultant on environment, climate change, and research systems. He is also involved with the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) as a visiting research fellow at its Center for Sustainable Development (CSD) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Haseeb's current interests include nature-based solutions (NbS). He has been working with the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Bangladesh and the Nature-based Solutions Initiative of the University of Oxford to create knowledge, build an evidence base, and facilitate a practitioner community on NbS in Bangladesh.
Dr Cai Ladd is a Research Associate in Biogeomorphology at the University of Glasgow’s School of Geographical and Earth Sciences. He is also a member of the Living Deltas Research Hub. His research focuses on coastal biogeomorphology, socio-ecological systems, and ecosystem service sustainability. He is interested in understanding how physical and biological processes interact across local and regional scales to shape salt marsh and mangrove forest environments and the communities which rely on them. His research interests cover hydrological monitoring, geomorphic change detection, Blue Carbon, geographic information systems, spatial statistics, citizen science schemes, and practical management tool development.
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About the Delta Dialogue Series
The series, organised by Living Deltas Research hub, aims to build knowledge and networks by bringing together speakers from different sectors and contexts to share their expertise, and to reflect upon the complex socio-ecological challenges facing deltas today.
Our aim is to strengthen partnerships in delta research, governance, and policy at a regional and global scale.