NEWSROOM
Safer
Growth in Coastal Louisiana Topic of 3/2/2006 Second Presidents'
Forum
March 1, 2006
BATON ROUGE
– A March 23 seminar on planning for safer growth in coastal
Louisiana will be accessible online.
The Presidents’
Forum on Meeting Coastal Challenges can be viewed at http://mediasite.lsuagcenter.net/mediasite/viewer/?peid=5603cc3c-b9e0-40f9-9043-67befed92284.
The live Webcast begins at 8 a.m., but presentations made during
the day will be archived online and available for viewing at leisure.
Presenters at the 2006
Forum include Mark Davis, executive director of the Coalition
to Restore Coastal Louisiana; Marc Levitan, director of the Louisiana
State University Hurricane Center; Dennis Hwang, an internationally
recognized coastal zone management expert and attorney from Hawaii;
John Lopez, director of the Coastal Sustainability Program of
the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation; Charlotte Randolph, president
of the Lafourche Parish Council; and Randy Roach, mayor of the
City of Lake Charles. Mike Jacobs, publisher of the Grand Forks
Herald, also will discuss the North Dakota city’s recovery
process following a 1997 flood.
As Louisiana continues
to pursue long-term coastal restoration goals, it is only fitting
that its universities take a lead role in addressing the near-term,
politically sensitive and economically challenging implications
of the state’s coastal land loss problem. With that objective
in mind, the Louisiana Sea Grant College Program,
LSU Systems Office
and LSU Agricultural Center convened the first Presidents’
Forum on Meeting Coastal Challenges in January 2005.
At the January forum,
scientists gave a stark assessment of the status of wetland loss,
hurricane vulnerability, subsidence, spatial data and coastal
resource economics to state and local leaders. The second chapter
of the Forum, held in June 2005, offered parish and state policymakers
insights from Florida’s hurricane experiences and served
as a springboard for discussion about Louisiana’s vulnerabilities.
The third component of the Forum was held in October when Hwang
conducted a seminar on reducing risks from coastal hazards.
Information
about the Presidents’ Forum is available online at www.laseagrant.org.
Since its establishment
in 1968, Louisiana Sea Grant has worked to promote stewardship
of the state’s coastal resources through a combination of
research, education and outreach programs critical to the cultural,
economic and environmental health of Louisiana’s coastal
zone. Louisiana Sea Grant, based at LSU, is part of the National
Sea Grant Program, a network of 32 university-based programs in
each of the U.S. coastal and Great Lakes states and Puerto Rico/U.S.
Virgin Islands.
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What:
Presidents’ Forum on Meeting Coastal Challenges: Planning
for Safer Growth in Coastal Louisiana
When:
March 23, 2006, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where:
Available for viewing online (live and rebroadcast) at
http://mediasite.lsuagcenter.net/mediasite/viewer/?peid=5603cc3c-b9e0-40f9-9043-67befed92284
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