Pinellas County officials looking for solutions to rising sea level
Some of Pinellas’ show-runners have decided sea level rise is a subject worth exploring. County Commissioner Ken Welch, director of Pinellas County Economic Development Mike Meidel, Pinellas County Natural Resources division manager Kelli Hammer Levy, and Libby Carnahan, a UF/IFAS Florida Sea Grant Extension agent, will all be attending a sea level rise conference at St. Petersburg College in early October. “The goal of the conference is to come up with strategies for either mitigating the effects of sea level…