Science and Engineering

• Integrated solutions to restoration, flood protection and navigation on the lower Mississippi River

• Risk Reduction Systems and Techniques
• Role of wetland and landscape features
• Structural measures (levees, floodgates, leaky levees)
• Non-structural measures (Fortified....for safter living® Homes, evacuation routes)
• Risk reduction on a systems-scale and its reliability
• Engineering considerations
• Environmental tradeoffs

• Predictive Tools
• Ecosystem models
• Hydrodynamic models
• Sediment
• Other

• Identifying and quantifying risk and uncertainties
• Subsidence
• RSLR & Climate change
• Sediment & water availability
• Community vulnerability

• Innovative technologies

• Monitoring & Assessment: strategies for evaluating program effectiveness

• Lessons Learned (Adaptive Management)
• Examples of lessons learned from existing projects
• Recommendations for improvements in existing or future projects
• Examples of adaptive managment
• Examples of successful projects