Concurrent Sessions

Tuesday, May 20

Note: The sessions below are subject to change. If you have any questions, concerns or requested changes to what is displayed below, please contact morgan.randall@crcl.org.

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
#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)
Darrin Lee - CPRA
David Reeves - NOAA
Greg Grandy - CPRA
Syed Khalil - 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
Robert Wiygul - Waltzer Wiygul Garside Law Firm
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
Cameron Poole - Greater New Orleans, Inc. (moderator)
James Martin - Gulf Wind Technology
Lyssa Linker - Gulf of Mexico Regional Office Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Jenny Netherton - Southeast Wind Coalition
Stacy Ortego - National Wildlife Federation
Harry Vorhoff - Plauché & Carr LLP
#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
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
#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)
#12 Litigation as a Tool for Addressing Coastal Impacts of Pipeline Canaling in Louisiana's Wetlands: The Latest in the Science, Factual Investigation, and Theories of Recovery
Isabel Englehart - Fishman Haygood LLP (moderator)
Tad Bartlett - Fishman Haygood, LLP
John Arnold - Jones Swanson Huddell LLC
John Lopez - Delta Science LLC
Callie Kamath - Fishman Haygood (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
#16 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Nonstructural Implementation - A New Path Forward for Flood Risk Management
Amy Dixon - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Micki Meier - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Kathryn Fechter - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Andrew MacInnes - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
#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
Nicholas Enwright - USGS
Johnathan L. Woodruff
Michael Miner – The Water Institute
April Newman– The Water Institute
Scott Hemmerling – The Water Institute
#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 Title coming soon
Presenters coming soon
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
#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)
G. Paul Kemp– Louisiana State University & 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 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