Thank you to everyone who attended and helped organize the 2022 Biscayne Bay Marine Health Summit! Please share your thoughts about the summit using the link below.

Below, we have included separate videos and presentations slides from each session of the summit.

FIU Welcome - Dr Ortiz - 2022 Biscayne Bay Marine Health Summit

Mindfulness Exercise - Suzanne Jewel

The Story of the Biscayne Bay Marine Health Summit

Welcome from  Mayor Daniella Levine Cava

Call to Action from  Louis Aguirre  (Environmental Reporter, WPLG Local 10)

Introducing the Mayor's "One Water" Strategy

from  Hardeep Anand  (Director, One Water Strategy, Miami-Dade County)

Biscayne Bay Task Force Report Update from  Irela Bague'  (Chief Bay Officer, Miami-Dade County) 

 Technical State of the Bay: Status and Trendlines of Water Quality, Vegetation and Wildlife

• Moderated by  Dr. Todd Crowl , Director, FIU Institute of Environment 
• Pamela Sweeney , Senior Manager, Water Resources Section (Miami-Dade County RER -DERM) 
• Piero Gardinali , Associate Director, Institute of Environment, FIU 
• James Fourqurean , Associate Director, Institute of Environment, FIU 
• Kellie Ralston , Bonefish & Tarpon Trust 
  

County Water & Sewer's focus on Biscayne Bay Recovery from Roy Coley (Director, Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department)

Bayside Chat: A conversation with Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins (Chair, Biscayne Bay Watershed Management Advisory Board) and Noah Valenstein (Chair, Biscayne Bay Commission). Moderated by Irela Bagué.

SFWMD Water Management and Resiliency Strategies and Biscayne Bay Recovery from Carolina Maran (District Resiliency Officer, South Florida Water Management District) and Jennifer Reynolds (Division Director, Ecosystem Restoration & Capital Projects, South Florida Water Management District)

Biscayne Bay and Southeastern Everglades Ecosystem Restoration (BBSEER) Overview and Project Updates from Jennifer Reynolds (Division Director, Ecosystem Restoration & Capital Projects, South Florida Water Management District)

The Value of the Urban Development Boundary from Laura Reynolds, Hold the Line Coalition Organizer

Leadership from the Dias for Biscayne Bay Recovery

• Moderated by Alex Harris, Climate Change Reporter, Miami Herald
• Commissioner Eileen Higgins, Miami-Dade County
• Commissioner David Richardson, City of Miami Beach
• Commissioner Ken Russell, City of Miami
• Commissioner Rachel Streitfeld, North Bay Village

Don't Mess with Manatees - Activism & Enforcement in the Age of Social Media

Panel with Miami-Dade Police Department

• Moderated by Dara Schoenwald, Executive Director, VolunteerCleanup.Org
• George Perez, Interim Director, Miami-Dade Police Department
• Louis Aguirre (Environmental Reporter, WPLG Local 10)

Stormwater Report Card from Rachel Silverstein (Executive Director, Miami Waterkeepers)

Improving Stormwater through Design, Maintenance and Collaboration

• Moderated by Dave Doebler, Co-Founder VolunteerCleanup.Org and BBMHC Steering Committee Member (Moderator)
• Rashid Istambouli, Interim Division Director, Environmental Resources Management, Miami Dade County, DERM
• Alex Barrios - Assistant Director, Miami-Dade Transportation and Public Works
• Ansley Samson General Council, Everglades Law Center
• Yenier Vega, Stormwater Utility Manager, Cutler Bay Public Works

Save Crystal River: A Seagrass Recovery Success Story

• Lisa Moore, President, Save Crystal River
• Carter Henne, Managing Biologist, Sea & Shoreline

Our Reasonable Assurance Plan (RAP): An Update from:

• Irela Bague’ (Chief Bay Officer, Miami-Dade County)
• Pamela Sweeney, Senior, ManagerWater Resources Section (RER -DERM)

Resiliency and Public Access: A Case Study in Waterfront Edge Design Guideline Framework (WEDG) for Living Shorelines

• Aida Curtis, President, Curtis + Rogers Design Studio
• Mariana Boldu, Resilience Design Expert, Curtis + Rogers Design Studio

Everyone Can Be A Changemaker: Project wins from Activists, Advocates and Government

Closing Remarks