Additional topics for 2021 Call for proposals:
- The 2020 hurricane season;
- Climate change and our coast;
- Artificial intelligence/machine learning to understand systems on a regional/basin scale;
- Long-term funding of coastal restoration and protection;
- Developing new/expanded equitable green employment opportunities;
- Mutual aid as a model for restoration planning;
- Diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice, and intersectional approaches;
- Louisiana’s energy future and coastal restoration;
- How the coronavirus pandemic may affect our climate and coastal restoration efforts.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
