Concurrent Sessions: Tuesday, May 20

#01 Lessons Learned from a Leading Legislation – CWPPRA's 35 Year Impact Across the Coast of Louisiana.

Kacie Wright - USGS (moderator)
Nicholas McCoy - USDA/NRCS
Rachel Villani – USGS
Brandon Champagne - CPRA
Tommy McGinnis – USDA
Lauren Leonpacher – USGS
Blaise Pezold - Meraux Foundation
John Foret - Fenstermaker
Todd Hubbell - CPRA

#02 The Economic Case for Pursuing Climate Impact: Using market demand to create opportunities for change

Samuel W. (Billy) Plauché - Plauché & Carr LLP (moderator)
John Bel Edwards - Fishman Haygood
Bessie Daschbach - Center for Asset Retirement Accountability/Tulane Law School
Megan Terrell - Plauché & Carr LLP

#03 State of Our Seafood: Exploring Solutions for an Industry in Crisis

Fiona Lightbody - CRCL (moderator)
Lance Nacio - Louisiana Shrimp Taskforce
Katrina Williams - CCC
Jason Pitre - Bayou Rosa Oysters
Dana Honn - Chef
Marcus Jacobs - Chef
Rachel Kimmel - Audubon GULF
Brynn Comeaux - NOLA FPAC
Emma Lou Reid - Filmmaker
Margaret Crosby - Chef's Brigade (organizer)

#04 Adaptive Management Implementation for Coastal Restoration in Louisiana

Richard Raynie - USACE (moderator)
Syed Khalil - CPRA
Darin Lee - CPRA
David Reeves - NOAA
Greg Grandy - CPRA

#05 Adapting Louisiana's Nutrient Management Strategies to Meet Today's Challenges

Haley Gentry - Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law & Policy (moderator)
Mark Davis - Tulane Center for Environmental Law
Glenn Ledet - CPRA
Doug Daigle - Louisiana Hypoxia Working Group

#06 Lessons Inside the Levees: Recent Progress in New Orleans Towards a Thriving Sea-Level City

David Waggonner - Waggonner & Ball (moderator)
Meagan Williams - City of New Orleans Office of Resilience and Sustainability
Josh Lewis - Tulane University Bywater Institute
Chris Lang - National Academy of Sciences
Collin Moosbrugger - Waggonner & Ball

#07 Impact and Restoration of Wetlands Degraded by Oil and Gas Canals

Carlton Dufrechou - Greater New Orleans Expressway Commission (moderator)
John Lopez - Delta Science LLC
Julie Whitbeck – National Park Service
Hongqing Wang - U.S. Geological Survey
Rachael Hunter - Comite Resources

#08 Restoring and Sustaining Louisiana's Only Inhabited Barrier Island – An Overview of Past, Current, and Future Coastal Restoration Efforts at Grand Isle

Rudy Simoneaux - CPRA (moderator)
David Camardelle- Mayor, Town of Grand Isle
Olivia Creel - CPRA
TBD - United States Army Corps of Engineers
Craig Harter - Coast & Harbor Engineering, Inc.

#09 Where and How: The Case for Louisiana Offshore Wind

Jenny Netherton - Southeast Wind Coalition (moderator)
James Martin - Gulf Wind Technology
Lyssa Linker - Gulf of Mexico Regional Office Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Stacy Ortego - National Wildlife Federation
Harry Vorhoff - Plauché & Carr LLP
Angel McCoy - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Cameron Poole - Greater New Orleans, Inc. (organizer)

#10 Louisiana Coastal Master Plan Modeling: Lessons from Hindcasting and Advances in Risk Modeling

Jessica Converse - CPRA (moderator)
Zhanxian Wang - Moffatt & Nichol
Madeline Foster-Martinez - University of New Orleans
Jordan Fischbach - The Water Institute
Mohammad Ahmadi Gharehtoragh - Purdue University
Ashley Cobb – CPRA

#11 The Next Generation: Youth Perspectives on Coastal Challenges and Solutions

Natalie Manning - CSED (moderator)
Arlo Townsley - CSED
Bryce Black - CSED
Keanohn Perkins-Willis - CSED
Paige Parent - CSED
Brett Pickett - CRCL (moderator)
Miles Jordan - LSU
Kylie Miller - Nunez
Assata Nkosi - Xavier
Arthur Johnson - CSED (organizer)

#13 State of the Louisiana Oyster Industry

Earl Melancon - Louisiana Sea Grant College Program (moderator)
Brad Robin - Oysterman
Jakov Jurisic - Oysterman
Austin Tinney - Oysterman
Boris Guerrero - Oysterman
Robert Cabellero - LDWF
Denise Kinsey - LDWF
Ryan Anderson - Oyster Grower

#14 Calcasieu-Sabine Basin: A Walk Through Coastal Restoration Efforts and Watershed Management

Jessica Diez - CPRA (moderator)
Leah Selcer - Neel-Schaffer, Inc.,
Mark Mouledous - CPRA
Darrel Broussard - United States Army Corps of Engineers
Travis Moore - CPRA

#15 Water Quality and Harmful Algal Bloom Monitoring and Characterization (Part I of II)

James Pahl - CPRA (moderator)
Amanda Marshall - Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality
Angelina Freeman – CPRA
Kristi Trail - Pontchartrain Conservancy
Guerry Holm - Jacobs

#17 Modeling Along the Coast and Bird's Foot Delta

Ioannis Georgiou – The Water Institute (moderator)
Thomas Everett - Coast & Harbor Engineering, Inc.
Arpit Agarwal - Coast & Harbor Engineering, Inc.
Timothy Stephens - Dynamic Solutions, LLC
Laura Manuel - Stantec

#18 Louisiana Barrier Island Management, Research, and Stakeholder Perspectives

Maricel Beltran Burgos - The Water Institute (moderator)
Matthew Vincent - CPRA
Soupy Dalyander - The Water Institute
Nastaran Tebyanian - The Water Institute
Michael Miner – The Water Institute
April Newman– The Water Institute
Scott Hemmerling – The Water Institute
Meg Palmsten - USGS

#19 We're Stronger Together: Weaving Perspectives, Science, TEK, Restoration and Modeling for a Better Future

Alyssa Outhwaite - Louisiana Sea Grant
Devon Parfait - Environmental Defense Fund, The Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw
Matthew Bethel - Louisiana Sea Grant
Danica Adams - Arcadis

#20 Cultural Protection and Restoration Actions: The Other CPRA

Gary LaFleur - Nicholls State University (moderator)
John Doucet - Nicholls State University
Jonathan Foret - South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center
Quenton Fontenot - Nicholls State University
Monique Verdin - Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange, Bvlbanch Liberation Radio
Gary LaFleur - Nicholls State University
Robin White - Nicholls State University

#21 Leveraging Disaster Recovery Funds to Support Professional Resilience Occupations

Micaela Coner - Louisiana Office of Community Development - Disaster Recovery (moderator)
Tiffany Howard - South Louisiana Community College
Jessica Lemoine - Louisiana Community and Technical College System
Bridget LaBorde - Northshore Technical Community College
Susan Nealy - Louisiana Office of Community Development - Disaster Recovery (organizer)

#22 A Birds Eye View: Education and Development of Geoinformatics In Coastal Louisiana

Arlo Townsley - CSED (moderator)
Madeline Foster-Martinez - University of New Orleans
Balaji Ramachandran - Nicholls State University
Jacqueline Richard - Nunez Community College

#23 Oyster Shell Recycling and Reef Restoration in the Gulf of Mexico

Hilary Stevens - Restore America's Estuaries (moderator)
Mark Berte - Alabama Coastal Foundation
Whitney Broussard - Freese and Nichols, Inc.
Darrah Fox Bach - CRCL
Fiona Lightbody - CRCL

#24 Impacts on the Marine Ecosystem of the Mississippi Sound and Bight from Freshwater Inputs and Environmental Stressors

Paul Mickle – Northern Gulf Institute (moderator)
Madalyn Mouton - USACE-ERDC-CHL
Brandy Armstrong - School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Jerry Wiggert - School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Mustafa Kemal Cambazoglu - School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Vladimir Alarcon – Northern Gulf Institute
Jessica Pruett - University of Southern Mississippi
Scott Milroy - School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Kim de Mutsert - School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Chet F. Rakocinski - School of Ocean Science and Engineering
James Klein - Mississippi Department of Marine Resources

#25 Water Quality and Harmful Algal Bloom Monitoring and Characterization (Part II of II)

Angelina Freeman - CPRA (moderator)
Bingqing Liu - University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Beth Stauffer - University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Jennifer Raabe - University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lee Potter - Louisiana State University

#26 Rethinking Flood Risk: Strategies for Resilience and Sustainable Development

Kathryn Keating - The Water Institute (moderator)
Evelyn Campo - Desire Line LLC
Spencer Johnson – CSRS
Brooke Newlin - C. H. Fenstermaker & Associates
Krista Jankowski - Arcadis

#27 Central Wetlands Restoration: From Hydrologic Restoration to Vegetative Plantings

Andrew Ferris - CRCL (moderator)
Blaise Pezold - Meraux Foundation
Eva Hillman - Pontchartrain Conservancy
Rollin Black - L9 Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development
Christina Lehew - Common Ground Relief
Gardner Goodall - Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (moderator)
April Newman - Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
Amanda Moore - National Wildlife Federation
Darrel Broussard - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

#28 Hydrology and Morphology Related to Land Building and Flood Mitigation

Will Norman – SWCA Environmental Consultants (moderator)
John Day, Jr. – Louisiana State University
Chris Russo - DDG & Joseph Guillory – DDG & Barry Richard – CPRA
Ranjit Jadhav - Olsson
Justin West - Michael Baker International

#29 The Renewables and Resilience Nexus

Cameron Poole - GNO Inc (moderator)
Anna Nguyen - Office of Resilience & Sustainability City of New Orleans
Pierre Moses - 127 Energy
Neal McMillin - Louisiana Department of Energy & Natural Resources
Monika Gerhart - Gulf States Renewable Energy Public

#30 Reading, writing and the river: Two authors who have published books focused largely on the Mississippi River talk about their works with journalist Mike Smith

Mike Smith (moderator)
John Barry
Boyce Upholt
James Karst (organizer)