2024 Lower Mississippi River Science Symposium

sponsored by the Charlotte Beyer Hubbell Fund
Lavin-Bernick Center, McAlister Drive, Tulane University (Live-streamed via Zoom)

Thursday, April 4, 2024 - Kendall Cram Room, 2nd Floor

8:15	Doors Open
9:00 - 9:30	Welcome
9:00	Kimberly Foster, PhD, Dean, Tulane School of Science and Engineering
9:10	Mead Allison, PhD, Professor and Chair, Dept. of River-Coastal Science and Engineering, Tulane University
9:30 - 10:50	Opening Session: Hydrological Extremes
	Session Chair: Richard Rebich, U. S. Geological Survey
9:30 - 9:55	Overview of Climate Change Scenarios for Elements of the Water Cycle within the MS River Basin View Recording Here » Suzanne Van Cooten, PhD, Regional Administrator, South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, USGS
9:55 - 10:20	Lower Missouri River Flow Frequency Update View Recording Here » Paul Boyd, PhD, PE, Hydraulic Engineer USACE - Omaha District
10:20 - 10:45	Mississippi River Navigation Challenges View Recording Here » Sean Duffy, Executive Director, Big River Coalition
10:45	Break - 15 min
11:00 - 11:25	Operational Forecast and Scenario Modeling of Mississippi River Salinity Intrusion View Recording Here » Gary Brown, Research Hydraulic Engineer, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, ERDC
11:25 - 11:50	Analysis of Drought Events in the Lower Mississippi River View Recording Here » Ehab Meselhe, PhD, PE, Nicholas Altiero Distinguished Professor, Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering, Tulane School of Science and Engineering
11:50 - 12:15	The Impact of Riverine Inputs on Coastal Forecasting in Northern Gulf View Recording Here » Saeed Moghimi, PhD, Team Lead, NOS Storm Surge Modeling, Coastal Marine Modeling Branch, Coast Survey Development Laboratory, Office of Coast Survey at NOAA National Ocean Service
12:15 - 1:15	Lunch
1:15 - 2:00	Hydrological Extremes Plenary Panel View Recording Here » Moderator: Barb Kleiss, PhD, Tulane Dept. of River-Coastal Science and Engineering
2:00 - 2:10	Break - 10 min
	Afternoon Session 1
	Session Chair: David Welch, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
2:10 - 2:40	Habitat Classification of the Lower Mississippi River Floodplain View Recording Here » Jack Killgore, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Tulane School of Science and Engineering, Research Fisheries Biologist, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
2:40 - 3:10	Sediment Supply from Bank Migration on the Lower Mississippi River, 1765 to Present View Recording Here » David Biedenharn, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Tulane University, Research Hydraulic Engineer, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
3:10 - 3:40	Upper MS Regualtion View Recording Here » Liam Wallace, Civil Engineer, US Army Corps of Engineers, Water Management, St. Louis District
3:40 - 3:50	Break - 10 min
	Afternoon Session 2
	Session Chair: Andy Ashley, PE, Mississippi Valley Division U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
3:50 - 4:20	Large Scale Floodplain Restoration in La, MS, AR markets project View Recording Here » Jason Milks, US Reforestation Program Director- North America Region at The Nature Conservancy
4:20 - 4:50	Changes and Use in Moving to the Modernized NSRS View Recording Here » Denis Riordan, NGS Gulf Coast Geodetic Advisor, NOAA, National Geodetic Survey
	Day 1 Closing Remarks
4:50 - 5:00	Mead Allison, Professor & Chair, Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering
5:00 - 6:30	Reception and Poster Session

Friday, April 5, 2024 - Kendall Cram and Breakout rooms, 2nd Floor

8:30	Doors Open
	Mississippi River Basin Regional Efforts
	Session Chair: Barb Kleiss, PhD, Tulane Dept. of River-Coastal Science and Engineering
9:00 - 9:25	An Overview of the America’s Watershed Initiative's Mississippi River Watershed Partnership View Recording Here » Kim Lutz, Executive Director, America's Watershed Initiative
9:25 - 9:50	An Overview of the Lower Mississippi River Comp Study View Recording Here » Deborah Centola, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans
9:50 - 10:15	The Mississippi River Delta Transition Initiative: MissDelta View Recording Here » Sam Bentley, Professor and Billy and Ann Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology, LSU Department of Geology and Physics
10:15 – 10:30	Break - 15 min
10:30 - 11:45	Co-production/Participatory Modeling View Recording Here » Scott A. Hemmerling, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, The Water Institute of the Gulf; Traci Birch, PhD, Associate Director, LSU Coastal Ecosystem Design Studio; Josh Lewis, Research Director, Tulane ByWater Institute
11:45 - 12:00	Closing Remarks