Committees
SOC 2025 Program Committee
co-chair: Alyssa Dausman
The Water Institute
ana acosta
Division of Administration
Ashley Cobb
Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
Lakesha hart
Division of Administration
Bingqing liu
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Jacqueline richard
Louisiana Community and Technical College System
Ryan Seidemann
The Water Institute
co-chair: Elizabeth Jarrell
Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
Ashley booth
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Luis Flores
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Scott hemmerling
The Water Institute
Cameron poole
GNO, Inc.
Alexis Rixner
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
program committee advisors
Allison Dejong, The Water Institute
Jessica Henkel, The Water Institute
Melissa Daigle, Louisiana Sea Grant Law & Policy Program
Angela Chalk, Healthy Community Services
John Doucet, Nicholls State University
Micaela Coner, Louisiana Division of Administration
Brad Ives, Energy Innovation Institute at LSU
John Zang, LSU
Michael Biros, CRCL
Brandon Champagne, CPRA
Jonathan Foret, South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center
Michelle Felterman, CPRA
Brendan Yuill, USACE
Jonathan Willis, Nicholls State University
Natalie Snider
Brett McMann, The Water Institute
Jun-Hong Liang, LSU
Patricia “Soupy” Dalyander, The Water Institute
Brooke Harris, Jacobs
Krista Jankowski, Arcadis
Renee Collini, The Water Institute
Charles Sutcliffe, National Wildlife Federation
Kristen Ramsey, US Fish and Wildlife Service
Robert Collins, Dillard University
Clinton Willson, LSU
Leah Moran, LSU
Simone Domingue, Tulane ByWater Institute
Denise Reed, UNO
Lindsay Cooper Phillips, Clean Air Task Force
Songjie He, LSU
Ehab Meselhe, Tulane University
Mark Davis, Tulane Environmental Law Institute
Tershara Matthews, WSP
Ethan Melancon, CRCL
Marla Nelson, UNO
Traci Birch, LSU
Jenny Netherton, Southeast Wind Coalition
Meg Bankston, Streamline Strategies
Warren Bates, Bradley Murchison
Megan Terrell, Plauche & Carr
SOC 2025 sponsorship Committee
co-chair: parker kilgore
Jones Walker
Daniel dehon
Fenstermaker
Tanner Johnson
Van Ness Feldman
Chip Kline
GIS Engineering
Greg mattson
Adaptive Management and Engineering
Beau Tate
Royal Engineering
Augusto Villalon
Freese and Nichols
co-chair: will norman
SWCA Environmental Consultants
Joseph Guillory
Duplantis Design Group
Scott kirkpatrick
Coast Builders Coalition
Nathan McBride
Colonial Pipeline
Randy Smith
Wingate Engineering
Whitney Thompson
Southern Shores Engineering