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SYMPOSIUM:  RECEMT RESEARCH IN LOUISIANA
Lafayette: Feb 3-5

Tuesday 3 February

9 am    Conference Opening
        Senator Mike Robichaux - 10 minutes

9.15 am Plenary Presentation. Charles A. Simenstad, University of
Washington. Functional restoration of Coastal Wetlands (TBC).

10 am   CHESNEY, Edward,  Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Issue=
s
and trends in estuarine and coastal fisheries and fish habitat in Louisia=
na:
Perspectives from a fish's eye view. =


10.20 William B. Stickle Jr., Department of Biological Sciences, Louisian=
a
State University, Effects of estuarine environmental factor gradients on =
the
tolerance and physiology of the southern oyster drill, Stramonita(=3DThai=
s)
haemastoma; an important predator of the American oyster, Crassostrea
virginica. =


10.40 Break

11 am   DORTCH, Q.,  Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, What is th=
e
Threat of Harmful Algal Blooms in Louisiana Coastal Waters?

11.20 am        L. Cardoch, Coastal Ecology Institute, The use of  wetlan=
ds for
wastewater treatment in Southern Louisiana

11.40 am        PARSONS, Michael L., Louisiana Universities Marine Consor=
tium,
The
history of salinity in coastal Louisiana as revealed by diatoms

12      Lunch (on your own)

1 pm    WALDON, Michael G., Department of Civil Engineering, Center for
Louisiana Inland Water Studies, Annual Nutrient Budget of Lake
Pontchartrain and impact of the Proposed Bonnet Carr=E9 Diversion

1.20pm  DAY, John W., Coastal Ecology Institute, Nutrient chemistry dynam=
ics
associated with the 1977 opening of the Bonnet Carre spillway

1.40 pm BOUSTANY, Ronald G., U.S.G.S./BRD, National Wetlands Research
Center, Sediment-water material fluxes from beds of submersed vegetation:=

Impacts of light reduction and nutrient enrichment.

2 pm            RIZZO, William M., U.S.G.S./BRD, National Wetlands Resear=
ch
Center,
Sediment-water material fluxes in benthic microalgal-dominated sediments
from beds of submersed vegetation: Impacts of light reduction and nutrien=
t
enrichment.

2.20 pm Poirrier

2.40 pm         Break

3 pm    TWILLEY, Robert R., USL, Biogeochemistry of Fourleague Bay:
Implications to Nutrient Loading and Freshwater Diversion in Coastal Loui=
siana

3.20 pm R. E. Turner, Coastal Ecology Institute, A Comparative Mass Balan=
ce
Budget (C, N, P and Suspended Solids) for a Natural Swamp and Overland Fl=
ow
Systems

3.40 pm HALE, Lamar, Louisiana Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit,=

Historic Patterns of Sedimentation in Grand Lake, Louisiana

4 pm            Paul Kemp, Coastal Ecology Inst., Sand Transport and Depo=
sition
in the
Outlets of the Atchafalaya River

4.20 pm CUNNINGHAM, Robert, Natural Systems Modeling Laboratory,
Atchafalaya Plume Response and Bathymetric Change Related to Long- Term
Meteorological Forcing

4.40 pm SWARZENSKI, Christopher, US Geological Survey, FRESHWATER FLOWS A=
ND
CIRCULATION IN THE PENCHANT BASIN AND TERREBONNE MARSHES IN COASTAL LOUIS=
IANA


Wednesday 4 February

8.30 am Lee Wilson, Lee Wilson and Associates, Restoring Natural
Succession:  Insights From A Conceptual Spreadsheet Model Of The
Mississippi Delta

8.50 am R. E. Turner, Coastal Ecology Institute , Low Cost Wetland
Restoration for Coastal Louisiana

9.10 am ROBERTS, Kenneth J., Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service,
Taxation of Private Marshland: The Use Value Method Applied in Louisiana

9.30 am Gregory W. Stone Coastal  Studies Institute, Wave Field and
Morphologic Response to Experimental Segmented Breakwaters: Raccoon Islan=
d
and Lake Salvador

9.50 am UNDERWOOD, Steven, G., Louisiana Department of Natural Resources,=

Adaptive Management Strategies and Beach Response to Construction of 85
Segmented Breakwaters, Southwest Shoreline, Louisiana, U.S.A.

10.10 am Break

10.30 am        PROFFITT, C. Edward.  Louisiana Environmental Research Ce=
nter.
McNeese State, Colonization and Clonal Growth of Spartina alterniflora
Loisel on Large Flats Created from Dredged Sediments in the Lake Calcasie=
u
Estuary.

10.50 am        GAUTHREAUX, Kermit, Department of Physical Sciences, Nich=
olls
State
University, MIGRATION OF SPECIATED METALS IN SOILS RECLAIMED FROM SHIP
CHANNEL SEDIMENTS

11.10 am        HOLLADAY, Kenneth W., Dept. of Mathematics, University of=
 New
Orleans, The Use of Airborne Electromagnetic Remote Sensing to Determine
Sediment Thickness and Water Salinity in the West Point a la Hache
Freshwater Diversion Region

11.30 am        Villarrubia, Charles,R., Louisiana Department of Natural
Resources, Ecosystem Response to a Freshwater Diversion: The Caernarvon
Experience

12      Lunch. Guess Speaker Dr Margaret Davidson (TBC).

1.30 pm John A. Bourgeois, Louisiana Department of Natural Resources,
Coastal Restoration Division, EFFECTS OF WEIRS ON THE DEPTH AND DURATION =
OF
FLOODING IN A LOUISIANA MARSH

1.50 pm DOYLE, Thomas W., USGS-BRD, VEGETATION RELATIONS OF MARSH ELEVATI=
ON
AND HYDROLOGY IN A FRESHWATER PEAT (FLOTANT) MARSH COMPLEX IN COASTAL LOU=
ISIANA

2.10 pm PEPPER, David A., Dept. of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, A
Preliminary Assessment of Wave, Current, and Sediment Interaction on the
Louisiana Shoreface Adjacent to Ship Shoal and the Isles Dernieres =


2.30 pm Ping Wang, Coastal Studies Institute, Numerical Wave Modeling and=

Bottom Boundary Layer Dynamics Program off the South-Central Louisiana Co=
ast.

2.50 pm Ehab A. Meselhe, The University of Southwestern Louisiana, PIV an=
d
Numerical Modeling for Flow Estimation and Analysis

3.10 pm Break

3.30 pm FLEURY, Bruce. E., Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal
Biology, Tulane University, The Importance of Agricultural Wetlands to
Colonial Wading Birds in Southern Louisiana

3.50 pm JENNEKE M. VISSER, Coastal Ecology Institute, Effects of grazing =
on
the recovery of oligohaline marshes impacted by Hurricane Andrew.

4.10 pm HESS, Thomas J., Jr., Louisiana Department of Wildlife and
Fisheries, Effect of 3-D Seismic Vehicular Traffic on Marsh Elevations in=
 a
Southwest Louisiana Coastal Marsh

4.30 pm WILSON, Barry C., Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries,=

Effect of 3-D Seismic on Vegetation of a Southwest Louisiana Coastal Mars=
h

Thursday 5 February

8.30 am         Plenary Presentation. Professor Ron Jones, Florida Intern=
ational
University. Title to be confirmed.

9.30 am FORET, J. D.  The University of Southwestern Louisiana, Accretion=

and Nutrient Accumulation Rates as Influenced by Manipulations in Marsh
Hydrology in the Chenier Plain

9.50 pm MCGINNIS, T. E., II.  The University of Southwestern Louisiana,
Factors Controlling Erosion and Soil Strength in a Brackish Marsh

10.10 am        Break

10.30 am        MERIWETHER, John R., Dept. of Physics, USL, 137Cs and 210=
Pb
Dating
of the Sediments in the Lagoons of the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana

10.50 am        HARDAWAY, Carey, Sulfur High School, The Effect of Diagen=
etic
Processes on the Radiochronology of  Sediments and the Burial of Various
Chemical Elements

11.10 am        CAHOON, Donald, USGS, National Wetlands Research Center,
Vegetation death and rapid loss of surface elevation in two Mississippi
delta salt marshes: the role of sedimentation, autocompaction and sea lev=
el rise

11.30 am        KEMP, G. Paul, Natural Systems Modeling Laboratory, Predi=
cting
the
Effects of Sea Level Rise and Sediment Supply on Surface Elevation in an
Organic-Rich Salt Marsh

11.50 am        Lunch

1 pm    CONDREY, Richard.  Coastal Fisheries Institute, The addition and
description of an eighth delta, the "Iberville", to the list of recent
Mississippi River deltas and its implications for coastal restoration

1.20 pm Britsch, L.D., US Army Corps of Engineers, Depositional
Environments and Their Role in Marsh Restoration Success

1.40 pm         PENLAND, Shea, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Univ=
ersity
of
New Orleans , GIS Analysis of Natural and Human Causes of Coastal Land Lo=
ss
in the Mississippi River Delta Plain =


2 pm    Reyes, Enrique. Coastal Ecology Institute, Landscape Modeling in
Coastal Louisiana: regional mechanisms of land loss.

2.20 pm R. E. Turner, Coastal Ecology Institute, Wetland Loss in the
Northern Gulf of Mexico: Multiple Working Hypotheses

2.40 pm DAY, John W., Coastal Ecology Institute, Pattern and process of l=
and
loss in Louisiana coastal wetlands

Edward Proffitt
Associate Professor and Director
Louisiana Environmental Research Center
McNeese State University
P.O. 90220
Lake Charles, LA 70609-0220
(318) 475-3062 =

proffitt@acc.mcneese.edu