Session: Pardee Keynote Symposia: Reducing Vulnerability of Gulf Coast Communities to Hurricane Impacts and Sea-Level Rise: Are Large Scale Restoration and Engineering the Answer? ( 2008 Joint Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM)

Session No. 6

Tuesday, 7 October 2008: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Pardee Keynote Symposia: Reducing Vulnerability of Gulf Coast Communities to Hurricane Impacts and Sea-Level Rise: Are Large Scale Restoration and Engineering the Answer?

Denise J. Reed and Robert S. Young, Conveners/Advocates

Paper #

Start Time

1:30 PM

Introductory Remarks

1:40 PM

Redirecting the Mississippi River – System Level Management for the 21st Century

WANLESS, Harold R., Geological Sciences, Univ of Miami, P.O. Box 249176, Coral Gables, FL 33124, hwanless@miami.edu, hwanless@miami.edu

2:05 PM

Sustaining Coastal Wetlands: Sea-Level, Sediments and Society

REED, Denise J., Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148, djreed@uno.edu, djreed@uno.edu

2:30 PM

The First Line of Defense: Louisiana's Barrier Islands

SALLENGER, Asbury, U.S. Geological Survey, 600 4th St. South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, asallenger@usgs.gov, asallenger@usgs.gov

2:55 PM

Influence of Wetland Restoration and Degradation on Storm Surge and Waves

WAMSLEY, Ty, US Army Engineer Rsch and Development Ctr, CHL, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180-6199 and EBERSOLE, Bruce, Vicksburg, MS 39180, ty.wamsley@us.army.mil, ty.wamsley@us.army.mil

3:20 PM

Using Science and Engineering to Further Coastal Restoration in Louisiana

GRAVES, Garret, Office of Coastal Activities, Louisiana Office of the Governor, 1051 N. Third St, Capitol Annex Bldg, Suite 138, Baton Rouge, LA 70802, garret.graves@la.gov, garret.graves@la.gov

3:45 PM

Restoring Coastal Louisiana Will Not Guarantee the Protection of Infrastructure from Storms: Policy Makers Should Also Plan for Strategic Relocation of Critical Infrastructure and Vulnerable Communities

YOUNG, Robert S., Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723 and BUSH, David M., Department of Geosciences, State Univ. of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA 30118, ryoung@EMAIL.wcu.edu, ryoung@EMAIL.wcu.edu

4:10 PM

Panel Discussion

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