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Monday, June 25, 2012

Concurrent Session I

Geospatial Data Resources and Applications: Jim Mitchell, DOTD
 
     
 
  10:05-10:30            The National Map - Base Geospatial Data for the Nation
Christopher Cretini
USGS
          
  10:30-10:55 Geodetic Resources in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast
Joshua Kent
LSU
     
 
  10:55-11:20 Analyzing Future Coastal Landscape Changes and the Threats to Critical Coastal Shore and Islands, Infrastructure and Communities
Jim Mitchell
Kurt Johnson
NOAA 
     
 
  11:20-11:45

Louisiana’s Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS-Wetlands) Web Applications and Visualizations

Sarai Piazza
USGS
Status and Future of Regional Programs: David Muth, National Wildlife Federation
 
     
 
  10:05-10:30           
David Williams
Louisiana CIAP
          
  10:30-10:55
The Future of the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA)
Brad Inman
USACE
     
 
  10:55-11:20

Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA) Near-Term Project Construction

Darrel Broussard
USACE
     
 
  11:20-11:45

 

Drue Banta
CPRA
Barrier Islands and Shorelines I: Michael Stephen, Coastal Engineering Consultants, Inc.
 
     
 
  10:05-10:30           

Barrier Islands Restoration in Louisiana- An Overview of Two Decades of Effort

Syed Khalil
CPRA
          
  10:30-10:55
Michael Poff
Coastal Engineering Consultants, Inc.
     
 
  10:55-11:20

Grand Isle Barrier Shoreline Stabilization Study

Matthew Campbell
Coast Harbor Engineering, Inc.
     
 
  11:20-11:45
Christine Pickens
ULL
Near Shore Dynamics: Q. Jim Chen, LSU
 
     
 
  10:05-10:30           

Numerical Simulation of Currents on the Louisiana Shelf

Jonathan Hird
Moffat & Nichol
          
  10:30-10:55

Impact of Hydrodynamics on Colored Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) Distribution over the Louisiana-Texas Shelf: A Study Using Hydrodynamic Modeling and Ocean Color Data

 

Nazanin Chaichi
LSU
     
 
  10:55-11:20

Long-term Dynamics of Suspended Particulate Matter Along the Louisiana -Texas Coast from Satellite Observations

 

Eurico D'sa
LSU
     
 
  11:20-11:45

Modeling Strategy for the Development of a Mechanistic Model of Phytoplankton Growth in the Little Vermilion Bay

 

Barbara Benson
ULL

Concurrent Session II

Topographic Mapping Applications: John Brock, USGS 
     
 
  1:35-2:00          
Federal-State Collaboration on Coastal Louisiana
Airborne and Terrestrial Lidar Levee Acquisition Pilot Project
John Barras
USGS
          
  2:00-2:25
Mapping Levees in Lafourche Parish Louisiana Using High
Resolution Mobile Terrestrial Lidar
Cindy Thatcher
USGS
     
 
  2:25-2:50
James Mitchell
DOTD

 

Atchafalaya and Wax Lake Basin and Deltas: Clint Willson, LSU
     
 
  1:35-2:00
Anu Acharya
ARCADIS
       
  2:00-2:25

Calibration of a Hydrodynamic Model of the Atchafalaya Basin to the 2011 Flood

Maarten Kluijver
Moffatt Nichol
     
 
  2:25-2:50
F. Ryan Clark
ARCADIS

 

 

LCA Mississippi Hydrodynamic and Delta Management Feasibility Study: Alisha Renfro, National Wildlife Federation
     
 
  1:35-2:00
Renee Sanders
CPRA
       
  2:00-2:25
David Biedenharn
Biedenharn Group
     
 
  2:25-2:50
Ehab Meselhe
The Water Institute of the Gulf

 

 

Barrier Islands and Shorelines II: Mark Hester, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
     
 
  1:35-2:00

The Chandeleur Islands Oil Spill Mitigation Sand Berm: 1 Year Later

James Flocks
USGS
       
  2:00-2:25
Mark Hester
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
     
 
  2:25-2:50
Arpit Agarwal
Coast & Harbor Engineering, Inc.

 

 

Concurrent Session III

Landscape Restoration: Eric Held, Ducks Unlimited
     
 
  3:35-4:00        
David Dales
URS
          
  4:00-4:25

Floodplain Conservation in the Mississippi River Valley – Combining Spatial Analysis, Landowner Outreach, and Market Assessment to Enhance Land Protection in the Atchafalaya River Basin, Louisiana

Jim Bergan
The Nature Conservancy
     
 
  4:25-4:50
Whitney Broussard, III
ULL
Hurricanes and Wetlands: Amanda Moore, National Wildlife Federation
     
 
  3:35-4:00
Ranjit Jadhav
LSU
       
  4:00-4:25
Pat Fitzpatrick
Mississippi State University
     
 
  4:25-4:50

Contributions of Extreme Storms to the Development of the Coastal Louisiana Landscape Over the Past Century

John Barras
USGS

 

 

Dredge Sediment Management: Barbara Keeler, EPA Region 6
     
 
  3:35-4:00

The Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA) Beneficial Use of Dredged Material (BUDMAT) and Demonstration Projects Programs, USACE Perspective

Robert Bosenberg
USACE
       
  4:00-4:25

Mississippi River Long Distance Sediment Pipeline: Opportunities and Constraints

Jonathan Hird
Moffat & Nichol
     
  4:25-4:50
Jason Lanclos
CPRA

 

 

Community Resiliency: Happy Johnson, National Wildlife Federation
     
 
  3:35-4:00
Kenneth Ammon
WRScompass
       
  4:00-4:25
Valsin Marmilion
America's WETLANDS Foundation
     
 
  4:25-4:50
Jeffrey Carney
LSU