8:00 AM

, Opening comments.

8:05 AM

Day, John*,1, 1 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, The Mississippi delta and hurricanes: implications of global climate change, energy scarcity, and societal change.

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8:35 AM

Platt, William *,1, Liu, Kam-biu1, Battaglia, Loretta2, Whitbeck, Julie3, 1 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA2 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL3 University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, Do hurricanes spur responses of coastal ecosystems to changing sea level?

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8:55 AM

Shaffer, Gary*,1, Barras, John2, 1 Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA2 USGS, Lafayette, LA, Wetlands as hurricane damage-reduction agents: the habitat-specific wrath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

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9:15 AM

Dufrechou, Carlton*,1, 1 Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, Metairie, LA, Initial summary of Hurricane Katrina's impacts on the Pontchartrain Basin ecosystem.

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9:35 AM

, Break.

9:55 AM

Faulkner, Stephen*,1, Whitbeck, Julie 2, Barrow, Wylie 1, Conner, William 3, Couvillion, Brady1, 1 USGS National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, LA2 University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA3 Clemson University, Clemson, SC, Hurricane impacts on coastal forests in Louisiana.

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10:15 AM

Diehl, Robert *,1, Moore, Frank1, Buler, Jeffrey1, Barrow, Wylie2, 1 University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi2 USGS National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, Louisiana, Understanding the impact of hurricanes on migratory birds: a scale dependent approach.

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10:35 AM

Passmore, Heather*,1, Platt, William1, 1 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, Hurricane-fire interactions: testing predictions in the savanna-forest landscape.

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10:55 AM

Keddy, Paul*,1, 1 Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, Hurricanes, human irrationality, and Gulf Coast ecosystems.

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