Alligators, Muskrats, Oil, Hurricanes and People: The Changing Louisiana Coastal Landscape
Curtis and Edith Munson Conservation Lecture Series
Dr. Don Davis, Research Professor, Louisiana Applied Oil Spill Research and Development Program, Louisiana State University
Louisiana’s sea-level citizens have learned to live and adapt to subsidence, sea-level rise, hurricane-induced storm surges, and coastal land loss/erosion. These natural phenomena, compounded by engineering solutions, have created, in many cases, below sea-level citizens. As a result, south Louisiana’s geographic complex is a product of two distinct ingredients: one natural and the other cultural, or human.
This is the first of a fall weekly lecture series will focus on the vulnerable Gulf coastal environment, and explore the question of how the natural and built environments can coexist among the formidable forces of rising seas, coastal degradation, and the Mississippi River.
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall
205 Propect Street
New Haven, Connecticut
Light refreshments will be served.
Lectures open to the university community and public.
For more information, contact Martha Smith, Center for Coastal and Watershed Systems.
Email: martha.smith@yale.edu or
Phone: (203) 432-3026
Louisiana’s sea-level citizens have learned to live and adapt to subsidence, sea-level rise, hurricane-induced storm surges, and coastal land loss/erosion. These natural phenomena, compounded by engineering solutions, have created, in many cases, below sea-level citizens. As a result, south Louisiana’s geographic complex is a product of two distinct ingredients: one natural and the other cultural, or human.
This is the first of a fall weekly lecture series will focus on the vulnerable Gulf coastal environment, and explore the question of how the natural and built environments can coexist among the formidable forces of rising seas, coastal degradation, and the Mississippi River.
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall
205 Propect Street
New Haven, Connecticut
Light refreshments will be served.
Lectures open to the university community and public.
For more information, contact Martha Smith, Center for Coastal and Watershed Systems.
Email: martha.smith@yale.edu or
Phone: (203) 432-3026
