 My name is Kate Boykort, Director of Resilience at the Waterfront Alliance in New York, New Jersey based nonprofit. So Waterfront Alliance is essentially an alliance of over a thousand civic grassroots businesses having some stake in the waterfront of New York and New Jersey. And we really focus on ensuring that we have a resilient and thriving region from working waterfront to access to the water to making sure our habitats are intact over time. So we're really interested in making sure we have a thriving region for generations to come despite our challenges. So Waterfront Alliance has been working to build consensus amongst businesses, civic groups, elected officials, agencies to really figure out what we need to do to adapt our governance, our policies, our funding structures, and our strategies to manage flooding and flood resilience to climate change. And it's a huge challenge. There's obviously a lot of different carrots and sticks that we need to adjust to get us there. And so building consensus, we need to be listening to grassroots, people that are really most affected by climate change as well as those that are studying and researching at the sort of professional level. So we've been working on that with over 400 individuals in New York and New Jersey and we'll be coming out with a policy platform next year to promote those solutions. So there's a few different things that are happening. And there's a lot of work that has been done to adapt our region. We know that, for example, building and zoning codes are changing in light of sea level rise. That's happening in New York and Hoboken and a number of other municipalities in New Jersey. From the green infrastructure side, which is I know what we're here to talk about today, there's projects that are going into place. There's a new wetland restoration that's happening in Jamaica Bay that's going to reduce the risk of folks that live near those resources and also benefit the environment. In Woodbridge, New Jersey, there's floodplain restoration as well as managed relocation program that's really helping to get people out of Harmsway and restore our floodplains. So there's a lot of work that's being done, but a few resources to really meet what we need for a long time. So in New York and New Jersey, we were hit by a really, really damaging storm in 2012, Hurricane Sandy. And that actually resulted in the appropriation over $60 billion of disaster response and recovery. We had extensive damage even beyond that and some people are still recovering or not actually recovered. We knew that there was a need to design differently, to invest in our natural resources differently. So we worked on two things. One, waterfront edge design guidelines or wedge program, which is like lead for the waterfront and incorporates sea level rise and climate change. So we have better standards for guiding, how we construct and where we don't construct. But secondly, we really recognize that we're adapting to a new system. We don't have the government structures and policies in place to kind of manage this issue. So we need to make sure that we're really thinking about this comprehensively. So that kind of drove us to action. So the way that we define resilience, we're really looking to ensure that we've got the strength to not only withstand disasters, but also change over time and not only bounce back but strengthen and learn from those shocks, but we're also interested in adaptation over time. There are things that we will have to change in light of sea level rise.