Losing Land: Underlying Geologic and Anthropomorphic Vulnerabilities of the Louisiana Coast Revealed By Geodetic Studies
Curtis and Edith Munson Conservation Lecture Series
Dr. Roy Dokka, Director of Louisiana Spatial Reference Center, and the Center for GeoInformatics, Louisiana State University
Louisiana is sinking in places and at rates unanticipated by the scientific paradigm underpinning public policy aimed at “saving” the coast. New subsidence data suggest that tectonics play a major role in changing the landscape.
This is part of a fall weekly lecture series focusing on the vulnerable Gulf coastal environment, and exploring 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 Prospect Street
New Haven, Connecticut
Light refreshments will be served.
Lecture 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
This is part of a fall weekly lecture series focusing on the vulnerable Gulf coastal environment, and exploring 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 Prospect Street
New Haven, Connecticut
Light refreshments will be served.
Lecture 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
