1.   Chenier Plain     

• Calcasieu Salinity Control Measures

• Chenier Plain Water Management

• Hard vs. Soft Shoreline Solutions

• Interstate Issues

• LNG Development

• Riverine Input

• SW Coastal -- Nonstructural Implementation

• Whooping Crane Reintroduction 

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3.   Disaster Preparedness, Prevention, and Recovery  

• 10 Years after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

• 15 years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

• Floodplain Management

• Land-Use Planning

• Morganza-to-the-Gulf

• Pre-disaster Planning/Reform

• Resilience Assessment and Planning

• Storm Surge Modeling and Management

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5.  Ecosystem Condition and Monitoring 

• Biogeochemistry

• Birds

• Coastal Fisheries

• Coastal Wetland Vegetation

• Contaminants and Pollution

• Continental Shelf Processes

• Ecosystem Models

• Eutrophication

• Groundwater

• Hydrogeomorphology

• Hypoxia and Dead Zone

• Invasive Species

• Marine Mammals

• Reptiles

• Soil Compaction

• Subsidence

• Wastewater Assimilation

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7.  Restoration Projects and Planning

• 2023 Master Plan

• Accelerating Project Progress and Implementation

• Adaptive Management

• Advances in Restoration Science and Engineering

• Baselines for Restoration

• Blue Carbon

• Canal Backfilling and Spoil Bank Removal

• Ecosystem Models

• Green Infrastructure

• Hydrologic Restoration

• Innovations in Project Delivery

• Lessons Learned from Other Places

• Living Shorelines

• Project Implementation

• Regulatory Protections and Challenges

• Restoration Goal Setting

• Sediment Management

9.  Technology and Innovation Human Dimensions 

• Advances in Ecosystem Modeling

• Aerial Seeding

• Drones for Project Monitoring

• Innovative Restoration Technology

• Interpreting Aerial Imagery

• Machine Learning

• Remote Sensing and Satellite data

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2. Deltaic Processes

• Barrier Island and Nearshore Dynamics

• Historical Perspectives

• Marsh Dynamics

• Modeling Deltaic Processes

• Restoring River Flow through Wetlands

• River and Delta Dynamics

• River Channel Effects

• Sediment Diversions

• Sediment Transport and Deposition

• Submerged Benthic Habitat Dynamics

4.  Economics, Policy, Planning, & Law  

• Applying NEPA/ESA in a restoration context

• Climate Change Policy

• Funding Sources for Coastal Protection and Restoration

• Innovative Partnerships

• LA Watershed Initiative

• National Flood Insurance Program

• Post DWH Funding Sources

• Property Ownership

• Public Access

• Public Trust

• Renewable Energy

• Restoration Economy

• Sustainable Financing

• Valuation of Ecosystem Services

6.  Human Dimensions

• Adapting to a Smaller Future Delta

• Aquaculture Development

• Building Public Support for Action

• Citizen Science

• Difficult Conversations and Conflict Resolution

• Diversity, Inclusion, and Environmental Justice

• Ecological and Economic Sustainability

• Ecotourism

• Emerging Economic Opportunities

• Historical Perspectives

• Landowner Issues

• Mobility and Relocation

• Navigation and Dredging

• Oil and Gas Industry

• Oyster Fishery Management

• Port management

• Predicting the Future -- population and economy

• Recreational and Commercial Fisheries

• Restoration and the Media

• Stormwater and Wastewater Management

• Water Quality and Supply

• Youth Education and Engagement

8.  Risk Reduction and Protection   

• A New Normal for the River/MS River Management

• Climate Change Adaptation

• Levee Maintenance and Monitoring

• Natural Infrastructure

• Non-structural solutions

• Retreat

• Sea Level Rise

• Storm Surge -- Inland/Rainfall flood Interactions

• Storm Surge Modeling

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