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    BUILDINGRESILIENCE

    WORKSHOP IIIImplementing Innovative, Sustainable Strategies

    for Rebuilding a Resilient South Louisiana

    March 15-17, 2012 Naval Support Activity Eastbank Facility4400 Dauphine St.

    New Orleans, Louisiana

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    WELCOME

    Welcome to the Building Resilience Workshop III

    The challenge of living with water is one shared by deltaic communitiesaround the world. Nowhere is this more apparent than in post-Katrina NewOrleans and the Gulf Coast region, where people live with a daily awarenessof the threat, and opportunities, of water. The series of Building Resilience

    Workshops I, II and III have been organized with the goals of identifyingand fostering the implementation of innovative and sustainable strategiesto reduce New Orleans and south Louisianas vulnerability to potentiallycatastrophic hazards, both natural and man-made, particularly those thatresult in severe flooding.

    The 2010 Building Resilience Workshop I addressed a broad range of

    water- and flood-related issues, with discussions centered on sustainableapproaches to rebuilding a culture of resilience in south Louisiana, spurredby impending climate change. Our international participants providedus with a wealth of new ideas from the Netherlands, Germany, Mexicoand Canada. The BRW II in 2011 focused on the role that innovative,sustainable infrastructure can play in mitigating catastrophic disaster, bothby reducing the risk of harmful consequences from extreme events and by

    facilitating rapid post-event recovery. The BRW II brought experts from theNetherlands, the UK, France, Belgium, Germany and Australia to share theirresearch on innovative disaster mitigation approaches and experiences withsuccessful transition methodologies for facilitating their implementation.

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    The Building Resilience Workshop III again brings together scientists,environmentalists, architects, engineers, city officials, planners,entrepreneurs, grass-roots community organizers, academic researchers,and representatives of federal agencies and native populations. We are

    joined this year by a dozen members of the pan-European research projectFloodProBE, which focuses its efforts on developing technologies, methodsand tools for urban flood risk assessment and reduction. Two of theleaders of the Dutch Room for the River program are participating as well.One entire day of discussions will be devoted to the Louisiana Draft 2012Coastal Master Plan and its implications for coastal Louisiana communities.We will be learning about innovative flood risk reduction strategies fromaround the world, discussing potential solutions compatible with our

    unique local ways of life, and creating global networks that will help us facethe challenges ahead and support the changes we must make to rebuild aculture of sustainability and resilience in the Louisiana Gulf Coast region.

    Thank you for your participation and engagement in this critical discussionabout creating a more promising and resilient future for our south

    Louisiana communities.

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    ON-SITE REGISTRATION

    MASTER PLAN IOverview of the Master PlanMarco Cocito-Monoc &Chris Zevenbergen, ModeratorsKarim Belhadjali

    [ COFFEE BREAK ]

    MASTER PLAN IIPublic Voices / Parish LeadersJohn Lopez, ModeratorCharlotte RandolphP. J. HahnCharles Allen

    [ COFFEE BREAK ]

    KEYNOTE COMMENTSPieter BloemenDelta Management: Some Reflections

    MASTER PLAN IIIPopular Voices / Parish ResidentsShirley Laska, ModeratorJonathan ForetByron Encalade

    [ LUNCH IS SERVED ]

    WORKSHOP SCHEDULEFRIDAY 16 MARCH 2012

    8:30 - 9:00 AM

    9:00 - 10:00 AM

    10:00 - 10:15 AM

    10:15 - 11:30 AM

    11:30 - 11:45 AM

    11:45 - 12:00 PM

    12:00 - 1:15 PM

    1:15 - 1:30 PM

    Steven PeyronninJohn EttingerLiesbeth van Riet Paap

    Carolyn WoosleySebastiaan van HerkKim Anema

    Chief Albert NaquinJeroen Rijke

    John Jacobs

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    BREAKOUT SESSIONS

    Focused Discussions on SpecificTopics Related to the Master PlanMaria BrodineBrad CaseMark DavisMonica FarrisBeth GalanteJonathan Henderson

    [ BREAK ]

    KEYNOTE COMMENTSLiesbeth van Riet PaapThe Dutch Room for the River Program

    MASTER PLAN IV

    Large-Scale Systems andLand-Use PlanningCynthia Sarthou, ModeratorCamille Manning-BroomeTimothy DoodyDavid Muth

    [ COFFEE BREAK ]

    KEYNOTE COMMENTSSebastiaan van HerkFrom Masterplan to Implementation:Two Dutch Examples

    MASTER PLAN VDirected Wrap-UpDoug Meffert, Moderator

    Breakout Discussion Summaries

    RECEPTION

    1:30 - 2:20 PM

    2:20 - 2:30 PM

    2:30 - 2:45 PM

    2:45 - 4:00 PM

    4:00 - 4:15 PM

    4:15 - 4:30 PM

    4:30 - 5:30 PM

    5:30 - 7:30 PM

    Shirley LaskaBoo ThomasDavid WaggonnerAnn Yoachim

    Keven LovetroDerk van ReePieter Bloemen

    Pieter Bloemen

    Chris ZevenbergenMark Davis

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    ON-SITE REGISTRATION

    INFRASTRUCTURE ISafe Haven vs EvacuationBelinda Little-Wood, ModeratorCraig ColtenCol Terry EbbertJohn Kiefer

    [ COFFEE BREAK ]

    INFRASTRUCTURE IICreating Community SheltersJohn Williams, ModeratorPat SantosBelinda Little-Wood

    [ COFFEE BREAK ]

    KEYNOTE COMMENTSJeroen RijkeMulti-level Governance inWater Management

    INFRASTRUCTURE IIINon-Structural Mitigation vsCommunity RelocationBrad Case, ModeratorTom SmithRutger de GraafRod Scott

    [ LUNCH IS SERVED ]

    WORKSHOP SCHEDULESATURDAY 17 MARCH 2012

    8:30 - 9:00 AM

    9:00 - 10:00 AM

    10:00 - 10:15 AM

    10:15 - 11:30 AM

    11:30 - 11:45 AM

    11:45 - 12:00 PM

    12:00 - 1:15 PM

    1:15 - 1:30 PM

    Nico van OsDamien Serre

    Jason YuChief Albert Naquin

    Allison AndersonEdwin BlomJohn Jacobs

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    BIOGRAPHIES

    Charles E. Allen IIICoastal and Environmental Affairs, City of New Orleans

    Charles E. Allen is director of the New Orleans Office of Coastal and Environmental Affairsand serves as advisor to the Mayor on such affairs. He is also Vice-Chair of the Holy CrossNeighborhood Association and until recently was acting director of the Lower 9th Centerfor Sustainable Engagement and Development. Allen serves as a board member of a projectknown as REACH-NOLA, which works to improve access to quality health care for NewOrleans residents. He also serves as a board member and secretary of the New OrleansHospital Services District A Board. The District A Board is currently working to rebuild ahospital for the Eastern New Orleans community. Allen is also a member of the board ofdirectors of the Louisiana/Haiti Sustainable Village Project. Finally, he serves on LouisianaGovernors Advisory Committee on Coastal Restoration and Protection.

    Allen received his Bachelors of Science degree in Biology from Xavier University of Louisianaand his Masters of Science in Public Health from Tulane University. Allen is a life-long residentof New Orleans.

    Allison H. Anderson AIA, LEED-APunabridged Architecture PLLC

    Allison Anderson focuses on projects featuring design excellence and a strong communitydesign component as a principal at unArch, and is dedicated to creating sustainable placesthrough the preservation and enhancement of existing structures, communities, and habitats.

    Repairing the connection between nature and the built environment demands a practice thatexplores the broadest definition of sustainability. Anderson was the first LEED-AccreditedProfessional in Mississippi in 2002, and is the US Green Building Council/Mississippi, Chair ofGovernment and Advocacy.

    Allison earned a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Texas, and a Bachelorof Architecture degree from the University of Southern California. She has been a licensedarchitect since 1991, and has taught architecture at the University of Texas, Louisiana StateUniversity, and Tulane University. Allison leads research efforts at uA, focusing on resilience,coastal hazards, adaptation, and defensibility. She has led the design of nine storm-hardenedshelters in Mississippi, with high performance standards to resist high winds and impact. Sheis a volunteer member of the scientific Gulf of Mexico Alliance Resilience Team.

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    Kim AnemaFlood Resilience Group at UNESCO-IHE, Delft, NL

    Studying the different aspects of management and decision-making for complex social issues,Kim Anema has always been intrigued by the dynamics between institutions and stakeholders.Her interest in flood and water management arose when she encountered the (potential)consequences of climate change in her work on emergency response and preparedness.

    Anema holds a MSc. degree in Public Administration and Policy Studies. She graduatedon interactive policy making (IPM) while working for the Red Cross Society in the region ofRotterdam and is currently starting a PhD project on social resilience. With her research,conducted within the Flood Resilience Group in Delft, she wants to explore new (non-structural)

    methods to enhance and nurture resilience of societies and contribute to existing knowledge onpolicy making in this area.

    Three weeks after the Queensland flooding, Kim visited Australia together with the rest of theFlood Resilience Group. The remarkable resilience of the people in Queensland is an inspiringcase of emergency management in modern society, especially considering the key role thatsocial media played during and after the event. She is currently involved in the proposal of ajoint RTD program to review that element of the disaster response in Brisbane.

    Kim was a participant of BRW II in 2011.

    Karim BelhadjaliProgram Manager, Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority

    Karim Belhadjali is the Program Manager for the 2012 update of the States Coastal MasterPlan for Integrated Ecosystem Restoration and Hurricane Protection. He has been engagedwith the States coastal restoration and protection program since 2000, serving as the leadecologist for the state on a dozen of large-scale wetland restoration projects constructed

    with federal partners. Prior to his current position, he served in the US Peace Corps asthe Marine Fisheries Advisor to the government of Tuvalu, Central Pacific. He formulatedfisheries policy including regulatory reform and fisheries management plans, to protect andconserve the marine resources of Tuvalu.

    Karim holds a bachelors degree in Marine Biology from Long Island University and aMasters Degree in Fisheries from Louisiana State University.

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    BIOGRAPHIES

    Pieter BloemenDelta Programme

    Pieter Bloemen has been a member of the Delta Commissioners staff since 1 February 2010.He is the initial contact for the Quality & Content area of attention. Mr Bloemen is mainlyinvolved with adaptive delta management (concept development and implementation) andthe development of a system for comparing the different alternative strategies that are beingdeveloped for water safety and sweet water supply. As member of the Quartermasters teamof the Delta Programme he was responsible for the development of the basic values andprinciples of the Delta Programme and for knowledge and innovation.

    Before joining the Delta Programme he was Programme manager of the Dutch National

    Adaptation Programme for Spatial Planning and Climate (ARK).

    Edwin BlomDura Vermeer

    Edwin Blom is a project manager at Dura Vermeer Business Development. He studied at theDelft Technical University and has a Masters degree in Architecture. He worked several yearsas an architect, working on a number of floating buildings including the Floating Pavilionin Rotterdam, The Netherlands, before moving to Dura Vermeer. Since 2010, he has beenprimarily involved in sustainable and resilient urban developments, such as smart shelters andseveral floating structures.

    Ezra BoydLake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, Coastal Sustainability Program

    Ezra Boyd is a hazards geographer and staff scientist with the Lake Pontchartrain BasinFoundations Coastal Sustainability Program. He resides in New Orleans, La. He recentlyearned his PhD from Louisiana State University, where his dissertation presented acomprehensive assessment and analysis of deaths associated with Hurricane Katrina and thecatastrophic failure of the Federal flood protection system for southeast Louisiana.

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    Maria BrodineColumbia University & Groundwork New Orleans

    Maria Brodine is a Ph.D. Candidate in Applied Anthropology at Columbia University TeachersCollege in New York, NY. She lives and works full time in New Orleans, conducting doctoralresearch on post-Katrina flood protection and coastal restoration. She is also the ProgramCoordinator for Groundwork New Orleans, a nonprofit specializing in addressing thelinks between social justice issues and environmental health, developing neighborhood-based water management solutions and education programs, and targeting underservedneighborhoods.

    Larry BussUSACE, Ret.; National Nonstructural/Flood Proofing Committee

    Mr. Larry S. Buss has served as a senior advisor/national expert with the US Army Corps ofEngineers in the areas of flood risk management and nonstructural flood risk reduction. Bussretired from the Corps of Engineers as Chief of Hydrologic Engineering, Omaha District. Inthat position, he lead a team of 50 people with expertise in such areas as Water Control,Water Quality, Hydraulic Structure Design, Statistical Analysis, River Ecosystem Restoration,Flood Plain Management, Emergency Flood Fighting, Flood Control Design, Sediment/Erosion Control, Watershed Modeling, Flood Warning Systems, Nonstructural and StructuralFlood Mitigation, and Hydrographic Surveys. Prior positions with the Corps of Engineersincluded Chief, Flood Plain Management Services; Chief, Planning; Assistant Chief, Planning;and Chief, Civil Works all within the Omaha District. He has over 39 years of experience with

    the Corps of Engineers all in Water Resources.

    Buss is also a past Chair of the US Army Corps of Engineers National Nonstructural/FloodProofing Committee. This committee promotes the development, implementation, and properuse of non-structural flood mitigation techniques including relocation/buoyant, flood proofing,flood warning/preparedness, flood plain regulation, flood insurance, etc. Buss has presentedat numerous workshops, seminars, and conferences throughout the United States on the usenonstructural measures to reduce flood risk. He is also involved on National task force teamsdealing with levee security, levee safety, flood risk management, and implementation of

    nonstructural measures.

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    BIOGRAPHIES

    Brad CaseDirector of Mitigation for the City of New Orleans

    Brad is the Acting Director of Mitigation for the City of New Orleans. Created in theaftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Hazard Mitigation Branch of the CitysOffice of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness is responsible for developingand implementing mitigation policy throughout the City of New Orleans. This includesimplementation of the Citys Hazard Mitigation Plan, administration of all FEMA mitigationprograms for private property and infrastructure and advancing of the awareness ofmitigation concepts and practices for communities and businesses. The Mitigation Officealso represents the City throughout the state and the country to promote and achieve thesustainability and resilience of the City.

    Marco F. Cocito-Monoc , Ph.D.Greater New Orleans Foundation

    GNOFs regional initiatives are overseen by Marco Cocito-Monoc, who has been workingin this capacity since the summer of 2007. Marco has extensive experience in communityrevitalization and economic development, having been executive director of BaltimoresSoutheast Community Development Corporation for four years. While in Baltimore, Marcocreated the largest bi-lingual, HUD-certified housing counseling program in Maryland, leda Healthy Neighborhoods revitalization program, led a commercial corridor revitalizationinitiative, and was part of a state-wide philanthropic and non-profit consortium that createda flexible refinancing system for homeowners who had been victimized by sub-prime lendersand were in danger of losing their homes.

    Prior his time in Maryland, Marco was director of economic development for the City ofCovington, Louisiana. In that capacity, he championed smart growth and mixed incomehousing by working to shore up housing quality and demand in various neighborhoods inthe middle and by making the revitalization of that citys historic downtown a departmentalpriority (which bore fruit in the form of 90 net businesses gained therein).

    Marco earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees in political science from the University ofMassachusetts at Amherst and his doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge inEngland, where he was also a research and teaching fellow at Magdalene College. In 2008,

    he was named a Hull Fellow by the Southeastern Council of Foundations. He has spokenextensively on issues related to community development, has published numerous articlesand has translated the works of the renowned contemporary philosopher, Luce Irigaray.

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    Craig ColtenDepartment of Geography and Anthropology, LSU

    Dr. Craig E. Colten is an academic author as well as the Carl O. Sauer Professor of Geographyat Louisiana State University. His publications concern the American South and the historicalgeography of human-environment interactions. His published works include Perilous Place,Powerful Storms, The American Environment, The Road to Love Canal, Transforming NewOrleans and Its Environs, and Geography of Louisiana.

    His book, An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature, published in 2005,won the J.B. Jackson Award presented by the Association of American Geographers. Dr.Colten attained his M.A. in Geography at Louisiana State University and Ph.D. in Geography

    at Syracuse University. After a dozen years in state government and the private sector, Dr.Colten returned to Baton Rouge and his current position. Currently, Dr. Colten is the editor ofthe Geographical Review.

    Mark S. DavisTulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy

    Mark Davis joined the Tulane University Law School as a Senior Research Fellow in January2007 and is the founding Director of the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy.For the past fourteen years he served as executive director of the Coalition to Restore CoastalLouisiana where he helped shape programs and policies at the state and federal level toimprove the stewardship of the wetlands and waters of coastal Louisiana, one of the worldsgreatest coastal and estuarine resources.

    Davis has practiced law in Indianapolis, the District of Columbia, and Chicago and has taughtat the Indiana University (Indianapolis) School of Business and the IIT-Chicago Kent School

    of Law in Chicago. He has lectured widely on the topic of water resource management andstewardship and has testified numerous times before Congress on the need for a focused andeffective commitment to the viability of coastal Louisiana and other vital natural treasures.

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    BIOGRAPHIES

    Timothy P. Doody, CPASoutheast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority East

    Chaffe McCall, L.L.P.Timothy P. Doody is President of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority East andis one of the founding Commissioners appointed on January 1, 2007. He is currently servingas a member of the Executive Committee of the Mississippi Valley Flood Control Associationand on the Legislative Committee of the Association of Levee Boards of Louisiana.

    Mr. Doody is a Certified Public Accountant with over 29 years of experience in the areasof finance and management. He is the Executive Director of Chaffe McCall, L.L.P., NewOrleans oldest law firm, responsible for Firm operations, management, human resources and

    accounting since September, 1989.His professional experience includes Internal Auditor/Assistant Vice President of First FederalSavings Bank of New Orleans, Controller of St. Bernard Savings & Loan Association, andSenior Accountant of the Audit Department of Touche Ross & Company, Inc. (now Deloitte &Touche).

    Mr. Doody is a graduate of Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Among his numerousprofessional and civic activities, he is a member of the American Institute of CertifiedPublic Accountants, Louisiana Society of Certified Public Accountants, Association of Legal

    Administrators, New Orleans Chapter, Operation Merry Christmas and the Knights ofColumbus.

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    Col Terry EbbertEbbert and Associates

    Colonel Terry Ebbert, United States Marine Corps Retired, founded Ebbert & Associatesto provide consulting, planning, training, and education in all aspects of EmergencyPreparedness, Public Safety, Disaster Management and Security Matters.

    Terry is the former Director of Homeland Security for the City of New Orleans. In this role hewas responsible for the administration and leadership for all Public Safety agencies, whichincluded Police, Fire, Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Preparedness and CriminalJustice organizations. He served as the Incident Commander and coordinated all local,state and federal response to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the largest

    disaster in the history of the United States.His views on the Katrina experience have been documented in extensive federal testimony,books, articles, television, lectures, and personal sessions with the White House andDepartment of Homeland Security. His input has been taken into consideration in thecreation of national reforms for emergency planning and operations. For his service duringthis disaster he received the United States Coast Guard Public Service Award, The LouisianaLegion of Merit and the American Spirit Gold Medallion.

    Colonel Ebbert completed a distinguished career in the United States Marine Corps where

    he held nuclear security positions and served as Security Officer for the United States PacificFleet. Other assignments included serving as the Military Secretary to the Commandant ofthe Marine Corps and Commanding Officer of The Basic School for Marine Officers. He is therecipient of the Navy Cross, the nations second highest award for valor for leadership actionsin the Republic of Vietnam.

    Byron EncaladeLouisiana Oystermen Association

    Byron Encalade is a native of East Pointe A-LA Hache, LA, a small fishing village inPlaquemines Parish, Louisiana. He engages in harvesting seafood, oysters and shrimp; alsoin transporting seafood along the gulf coast states. He is currently serving as PlaqueminesParish, Louisiana Constable 3rd Ward, American Legion Post 430 Judge Advocate, LouisianaWildlife & Fisheries Seed Ground Permit Appeals Board, President of Louisiana OystermenAssociation, President of South Plaquemines United Fisheries Cooperative and most proudly alifetime member of the Wolfhound Pack 27th Infantry Regiment Historical Society, Inc.

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    BIOGRAPHIES

    Elizabeth C. English, Ph.D.Buoyant Foundation Project and University of Waterloo, Canada

    Dr. Elizabeth C English, Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Waterlooin Ontario and formerly with the LSU Hurricane Center and Tulane School of Architecture,works on developing amphibious foundation systems as a flood mitigation strategy thatsupports the preservation of traditional housing forms and cultural practices. Her currentfocus is on Louisiana, the Canadian north and Bangladesh. She came to flood mitigation froma background of many years of research on wind effects on buildings. She is the founder ofthe Buoyant Foundation Project in Louisiana and Ontario, and the organizer of the BuildingResilience Workshops in New Orleans. Both projects promote strategies that work WITHwater to enhance community resilience, and both encourage the use of redundant forms of

    flood mitigation to diffuse the concentration of risk that leads to catastrophe in the wake ofthe inevitable failure of a single-line-of-defense system. Dr Englishs experience in education,practice, teaching and research is in both the fields of Architecture and Civil Engineering.She holds degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning (BA), Civil Engineering (MS) andArchitectural Theory (PhD), from Princeton University, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania,respectively.

    Yarrow EtheredgeGroundwork New Orleans

    Yarrow Etheredge is the vice-president of the board of directors and a founder of GroundworkNew Orleans, who works as a Policy Consultant in the Transmission Regulatory Compliancegroup at Entergy Services, Inc., where she participates on a Task Force for Transmission and

    Distribution Resilience, as related to climate change impacts in on the Gulf Coast. She is agraduate of Tulane Law School, with a certification of specialty in Environmental Law. Shehas worked as an environmental attorney, served as the Director of the Mayors Office ofEnvironmental Affairs for the City of New Orleans in Mayor Ray Nagins first term, Directorof Public and Legal Affairs for Toxicological and Environmental Associates, and a visitingadjunct professor of Environment and Development at Tulane Universitys Payson Center forInternational Development and Technology Transfer. She is also a founding member of the

    Louisiana Brownfields Association, and serves as its vice president.

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    John EttingerU.S. Environmental Protection Agency

    John Ettinger is the coastal wetland coordinator for U.S. EPA Region 6. John lives and worksin New Orleans. The overarching goal of Johns work is to help stem the rapid ongoingloss of coastal wetlands and barrier islands in Louisiana. John has represented EPA in thedevelopment of several large-scale coastal restoration and protection plans. John workswith the Corps of Engineers and others to ensure that hurricane protection levees areenvironmentally sound, while also promoting non-structural approaches to reducing floodingrisks. In the wake of hurricane Katrina, John helped expedite the environmental assessmentof the $14.5 billion upgrade of the New Orleans levee system, while reducing impacts tocoastal wetlands. John helped represent EPA on the Obama Administrations Louisiana-

    Mississippi Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Working Group, a high-level policy effort toadvance the Nations interests in coastal restoration in Louisiana and Mississippi. In the wakeof the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, John assessed the environment impacts of oil spillresponse measures proposed by State and local governments, including a proposal to buildover 100 miles of sand berm in the Gulf of Mexico. John is currently assisting the Gulf CoastEcosystem Restoration Task Force. In additional to his work in coastal Louisiana, John hasbeen a lead trainer in EPAs national wetland regulatory training program. Prior to movingto Louisiana in 2001, John worked for ten years in EPA Headquarters, where he reviewedcontroversial development projects involving significant impacts to wetlands. Before joining

    EPA in 1992, John spent over two years as a volunteer in the U.S. Peace Corps. John wasstationed in a rural village in Paraguay, South America, where he worked to improve drinkingwater and sanitation, while also helping lead a community-based effort to build a new school.John has a BA in Philosophy from Marquette University and a MS in Environmental Sciences

    from Johns Hopkins University.

    Monica Teets Farris

    Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology (CHART)University of New Orleans

    Dr. Monica Farris is an Associate Professor-Research and the Director of the Center forHazards Assessment, Response and Technology (CHART) at The University of New Orleans.She earned her MA degree from Louisiana State University and PhD degree from UNO, bothin Political Science, the latter with a public administration/public policy specialization. Sheis also recognized as a Certified Floodplain Manager. Dr. Farris current applied researchfocuses on education and outreach emphasizing mitigation. She has published on the subjectof building internal capacity for disaster resilience and has presented multiple times on hazardrisk reduction and disaster planning.

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    Jonathan ForetSouth Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center

    Mr. Jonathan Foret has worked to educate youth both formally and informally across theworld. He began as an English teacher in southern Louisiana and later moved to New YorkCity to do the same. He then served as a Peace Corps volunteer for two years teachingEnglish as a second language to students on a remote island in the Kingdom of Tonga. Thisservice led him to the United Nations to work with youth with disabilities in Bangladesh,Nepal, Cambodia, Indonesia and Fiji. Upon completion of this work, Jonathan returned toLouisiana to secure his Masters in Public Administration from the University of New Orleans.He has returned to the bayou of his childhood to inspire and educate the youth about coastalissues through his current position at the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center in

    Houma, Louisiana.

    Jonathan works with youth along the Louisiana coast to help them understand the issuesfacing their land so that they can develop their own opinions and lend their voice to thediscussions taking place. He has created and developed an annual Wetlands Youth Summitthat brings students together from several parishes for both learning and networkingopportunities. From this summit, a Wetlands Youth Council was developed to address coastalissues including the 2012 Coastal Master Plan and the future of some of our most vulnerablecommunities.

    Beth GalanteGlobal Green, USA

    Beth Galante is responsible for the operation of Global Greens New Orleans Office andGreen Building Resource Center, supervision of the Holy Cross Project, and rebuildinginitiatives including green affordable homes, schools, and neighborhoods.

    Beth was formerly an Assistant D.A. in New Orleans, handling predominantly homicides,sex offenses, and public corruption cases. She taught at Tulane Law School as the formerDeputy Director of the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, which was the first recipient of theAmerican Bar Associations Distinguished Environmental Achievement Award and the NationalLaw Journals Runner Up Lawyer of the Year during her tenure, for its groundbreaking workin the field of Environmental Justice. She is also a former legal representative of the NewJersey Attorney General and the Quapaw Indian Nation regarding damages to their naturalresources. Beth has a Masters of Environmental & Energy Law and J.D. from Tulane LawSchool.

    Beth served as Co-Chair of Mayor Mitch Landrieus Sustainability Task Force and is currentlyan Aspen Institute Fellow in its Henry Crown leadership program, Chair of the GreenCollaborative, a group dedicated to advancing sustainable environmental and economicdevelopment in the Greater New Orleans area. She was honored as one of 2011s Championsof Change by the White House.

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    Rutger de GraafDeltaSync, Netherlands

    Rutger de Graaf is a civil engineer who works on the interface of design, technology andsociety to innovate towards flood proof ecocities. In 2008, Rutger was included in theDutch Masters, Pioneers in International Business of the Agency of International Businessand Cooperation (EVD) of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. In 2009, he finishedhis PhD thesis (cum laude) on innovations in urban water management to reduce thevulnerability of cities. He is founding partner-managing director of DeltaSync and professorAdaptive Urban Development at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. DeltaSyncis a leading specialist in the field of floating urbanization focused on providing innovativeconsulting and design services for vulnerable delta areas. As an interdisciplinary think tank,

    DeltaSync develops and implements flood proofing strategies. The mission of the companyis to create the first floating city in the world.

    P. J. HahnPlaquemines Parish

    P.J. Hahn was appointed by Mike Foster, to the position as commissioner of the EastJefferson Levee Districts Board, subsequently becoming its president. Under P. Jsadministration, a number of levee board projects were implemented that would laterprove to protect East Jefferson Parish from the storm surge and devastation of HurricaneKatrina. Due to his extensive successful accomplishments while on the East Jefferson Levee

    Districts board, P.J. was offered the Plaquemines Parish Coastal Restoration Directorsposition. Within short order, P.J. began working with President Nungesser to develop aplan to solve the problem of Plaquemines Parishs vast, yet rapidly diminishing coastline.Their plan, which is currently being implemented and is the first of its kind for any individualparish in the state, provides storm surge protection incorporated with coastal restoration,and has been the impetus for Louisiana coastline projects state-wide to be modified aswell. As credit to its success, the Plaquemines Parish coastal restoration plan has also beenmodeled by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Centerscommand in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

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    Jonathan HendersonGulf Restoration Network

    Jonathan Henderson, a native of New Orleans is the Coastal Resiliency Organizer for theGulf Restoration Network. Currently, Jonathan is managing GRNs BP drilling disaster fieldoperations in the Gulf of Mexico. This includes taking over 90 trips to the Gulf since April2010 by boat and plane to document and help the media document ongoing disaster impactsall along the Gulf coast and offshore. Jonathan is also the editor of GRNs bi-weekly on-linenewsletter, GulfWaves and is working with select Louisiana communities on resiliency relatedissues. Jonathan received a bachelors degree in Theater from LSU, a Masters of BusinessAdministration from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a Juris Doctorate fromSouthern University Law Center. Jonathan has worked in government relations for manyyears including as a legislative assistant at the Louisiana State Legislature and as Director of

    Governmental Relations for the Brylski Company, a full-scale public relations firm.

    Sebastiaan van HerkUNESCO-IHE; Bax & Willems Consulting Venturing, Spain

    Sebastiaan van Herk holds an MSc degree (cum laude) in systems engineering and policyanalysis from Delft University of Technology, studied industrial engineering at the UPCBarcelona and economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Mr. Van Herk is partner andsenior consultant at Bax & Willems Consulting Venturing (Spain) in Business Development andResearch & Development. He is a researcher and part-time PhD candidate at Delft Universityof Technology at the department of Civil Engineering and a member of the Flood ResilienceGroup, also affiliated with UNESCO-IHE. His research focuses on collaboration and learning

    processes in flood management and urban development planning. As a consultant in thesefields, he creates Learning & Action Alliances and facilitates multi-actor, trans-disciplinary

    interaction for policy development, project delivery and knowledge development.

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    John JacobsCity of Rotterdam, Netherlands

    John Jacobs (1966) graduated in Water Management in 1992 and has since then worked atDelft University of Technology, opMAAT (design and advice), waterboards, and the City ofRotterdam. Here, he was responsible for the Water Plan II Rotterdam, which eventually ledto the innovative climate change adaptation programme Rotterdam Climate Proof (RCP).Within this programme, nowadays part of the Rotterdam Climate Initiative, John is part ofthe steering group and focuses mainly on water related topics and strategic projects suchas, the Rotterdam Adaptation Strategy, waterfront and floating developments, urban watermanagement and the international Connecting Delta Cities network.

    The Rotterdam Climate Initiative is working as a public private partnership on its maintargets: 50% reduction of CO2 and 100% climate resilience in 2025.

    For more information: www.rotterdamclimateproof.nl

    Alessandra Jerolleman, MPA, CFMNatural Hazard Mitigation Association

    Alessandra Jerolleman is the founder and Executive Director of the Natural HazardMitigation Association (NHMA). She is also a Program Specialist in the Gulf Coastwith Save the Children USA, working on a resilience initiative around childrens needsin emergencies. She currently serves as one of the Tri-Chairs for the National HazardMitigation Collaborative Alliance, sits on the board of the Greater New Orleans DisasterRecovery Partnership, and sits on the Executive Committee of the American Society ofPublic Administrations Section on Emergency and Crisis Management. She is the co-

    author of a textbook, Natural Hazard Mitigation, which will be published by CRC Pressin late 2011. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of New Orleans. Ms.Jerolleman has acquired wide-ranging experience in the private, non-profit, and academicsectors.

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    John J. Kiefer, Ph.D.University of New Orleans (UNO); Center for Hazards Assessment,

    Response and Technology (CHART)Dr. John Kiefer is Professor and Director of the Master of Public Administration program in theDepartment of Political Science at the University of New Orleans (UNO). He is also a facultyassociate at the Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology (CHART), UNOsapplied hazards social science research center. Professor Kiefer implemented the HazardPolicy specialization within the Master of Public Administration program at UNO, a curriculumthat emphasizes the creation of resilient agencies and organizations. He teaches coursesin hazard policy/administration and program evaluation. In his applied research, Dr. Kieferspecializes in the development of outcome-focused collaborative networks to create disasterresilience in organizations and communities. He is or has been either principal investigator ora research team member for projects that include elderly evacuation, technology initiativesfor vulnerable populations, repetitive flood loss mitigation, and national flood policy.Professor Kiefer has published several book chapters, a variety of journal articles and otherpublications, and delivered professional papers at more than forty conferences. His firstbook, Natural Hazard Mitigation, co-authored with Alessandra Jerolleman, is to be publishedthis summer. He has been principal evaluator for a broad range of programs funded by theU.S. Department of Education, Department of Homeland Security, State of Louisiana, andseveral cities, receiving almost a million dollars in grant-related research funding. He is the

    past chair of the Section on Emergency and Crisis Management of the American Society forPublic Administration and currently on the Executive Board of the Southeastern Conferencefor Public Administration. Dr. Kiefer has a Ph.D. in Public Management, a Master of UrbanStudies, and a Master of Science in Administration. Prior to coming to UNO, Dr. Kiefer was aResearch Professor at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He is a retired U.S. MarineCorps officer.

    K.C. KingUNO-CHART

    K.C. King has over forty years experience defining, executing, verifying and validating theprocesses for architecting, specifying, engineering and building large, agile information-intensive systems for enterprise-scale missions in both commercial and government sectors.His experience includes 16 years of large-scale systems engineering with Boeing, 11 yearsof championing the adoption and adaptation the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and itspredecessors to very large scale, non-traditional development, and 5 years of collaborativeteaming between Boeing, the military Services, DARPA and the Carnegie-Mellon SEI onapplied architecture and engineering processes research, in both administrative and trainingroles.

    King most recently applied his career systems engineering experience to two catastrophicincidents impacting the residents of Southern Louisiana Hurricane Katrina and theDeepwater Horizon Blowout. He actively advocates a systems approach based on emergingresilience systems engineering doctrine and practices. King is a member of the Governors

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    Housing Task Force in support of the Louisiana Recovery Authority. He is also a member of theInternational Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), collaborating with The InfrastructureSecurity Partnership (TISP) in developing a framework for Resilience Systems Engineering(RSE).

    Shirley LaskaUNO-CHART

    Shirley Laska, PhD, is professor emerita of sociology and founding past director of the Centerfor Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology at the University of New Orleans (UNO-CHART). She has been conducting applied research on the social/environmental interface,natural & technological hazards, and disaster response, especially long-term recovery and riskreduction, for 25 years. Her work includes studies on residential flood mitigation, hurricaneresponse, coastal land loss effects, coastal fisheries, community risk assessment and riskmanagement for coastal hazards, use of information technology and GIS as support tools fordisaster management, and evacuation of the vulnerable.

    Since Katrina Laskas work has been focused on lessons to be learned from the event,especially in the realm of community recovery and hazard resiliency both in the urban andnon urban setting. This work emphasizes Participatory Action Research in both slow onset coastal land loss and sea level rise --and abrupt major disaster events hurricane Katrina and

    the BP oil leak.Belinda Little-WoodNaval Support Activity New Orleans Advisory Task Force

    Belinda Little-Wood is the Executive Director of the Local Redevelopment Authority for theNaval Support Activity East Bank facility in New Orleans, LA. Ms. Little-Wood assumedthis position in February 2007 as part of the Office of Recovery of the City of New Orleans.Working in the Recovery Office, she participated in the planning and implementation of manyof the rebuilding efforts. Building on the aspects of recovery from the hurricane Katrina, she

    has led a Task Force who created a reuse plan for the Naval Support Activity East Bankfacility. This development envisions an international disaster management center that willinclude an emergency operations center, temporary shelter for essential personnel during acatastrophic event, research and development opportunities, and training facilities.

    Prior to joining the City of New Orleans she owned and operated 10th Capital SmallBusiness Advisors, LLC, a business consulting firm specializing in small business developmentand entrepreneurship. Before Hurricane Katrina, she was the President/CEO of NewtekCommunity Financial Services, LLC, in New Orleans, LA, which provided services to businessessuch as, financing through SBA loans, strategic planning, tax services, merchant processing,

    and general business consulting nationwide. Ms. Little-Wood is a 28 year resident of Algiers,a suburb in the heart of New Orleans on the west bank of the Mississippi River. She receiveda Masters in Business Administration in 1978 and graduated from the Mid-South School ofBanking in 1983.

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    John Anthony LopezLake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation

    Dr. John Lopez is a coastal scientist who is LPBFs Executive Director and Director of theCoastal Sustainability Program. He has multi-disciplinary training in Geology, Engineering, andBiological Sciences and has handled project assignments for CWPPRA while working for theU. S. Army Corps of Engineers. Dr. Lopez developed the Multiple Lines of Defense Strategy,which integrates flood protection and coastal restoration. He has chaired the Lake PontchartrainArtificial Reef Working Group that has constructed nine reefs in Lake Pontchartrain from 2000 to2009; the artificial reefs have been shown to increase fish population and biodiversity in the lake.Dr. Lopez received the Conservationist of the Year Award in 2008 from the Louisiana Wildlife

    Federation and the Coastal Zone 05 Conference Award from NOAA.

    Keven LovetroUSACE

    Mr. Lovetro currently serves as the Chief of the Economic and Social Analysis BranchsFlood Risk Management Section in the New Orleans District of the U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers. He supervises a team of regional economists and social science analysts whoconduct economic feasibility analyses and social impact assessments for proposed flood riskmanagement projects. Projects range from multi-million dollar hurricane protection leveesand urban drainage systems to nonstructural alternatives such as structure elevation andacquisition. The cost effectiveness of ecosystem restoration projects is also evaluated.

    A Corps employee since 1984, Mr. Lovetro earned is M.A. in Economics from the Universityof New Orleans and in International Affairs from the George Washington University in 1979.

    He has been accredited as a Certified Flood Plain Manager by the Association of State FloodPlain Managers and currently serves on the Corps National Nonstructural/Flood ProofingCommittee.

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    Camille Manning-BroomeDirector of Planning, Center for Planning Excellence (CPEX)

    Bringing a combination of experience in both social and hard sciences, Camille Manning-Broome oversees multi-disciplinary statewide planning efforts that provide grant funding,technical assistance and model tools to communities across Louisiana. She has spearheadedand directed cross-institutional projects such as the Louisiana Land Use Toolkit, Coastal BestPractices Manual, and other statewide initiatives. She has also worked on planning efforts atthe local scale with over 15 communities across the state.

    Prior to working at CPEX, Manning-Broome worked at the Shaw Group where she assistedin the development of the first Comprehensive Master Plan for the Coastal Protection and

    Restoration Authority. Prior to Shaw, she was part of the management in FEMAs LouisianaSpeaks process overseeing the development of 26 Parish recovery plans, now beingimplemented across the state.

    Manning-Broome is a frequent presenter at universities and conferences, has received variousawards, and was a guest and participant on Congressional delegation trips to the Netherlandsand Japan to study water and disaster management, both led by U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu.A native of Baton Rouge, she earned her Bachelors degree and M.S. in EnvironmentalSciences at LSU. Manning-Broome is partial owner of Renovate Urban Properties, a companythat purchases blighted apartment complexes for renovation. This work has resulted in the

    rejuvenation and increase in property value in Mid-City, Baton Rouge.Manning played a central role in drafting the initiative rebuilding plan for New Orleans,and has spoken to news networks such as CNN on the blueprint for the rebuilding of NewOrleans. Manning was recently elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Instituteof Architects (AIA), which recognizes architects who have made a significant contribution toarchitecture and society and who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession.

    Douglas Meffert

    Louisiana National Audubon SocietyDr. Douglas Meffert is a Vice President and Executive Director of Louisiana for the NationalAudubon Society. Audubons Louisiana team focuses on large scale coastal and gulfrestoration as part of the Mississippi River Delta Restoration initiative and the protection ofmany globally significant Important Bird Areas. Doug has a long history in the Louisiana, mostrecently as Director of Project Development and Associate Professor at Tulane UniversitysPayson Center for International Development, and as the Executive Director of RiverSphere, an initiative to develop a new campus for the university oriented to water resourcesand renewable energy. Prior to those posts, he was Deputy Director of the Center for

    Bioenvironmental Research, a joint project of Tulane and Xavier Universities. Doug receiveda Loeb Fellowship at Harvards Graduate School of Design and is a faculty associate at theLincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, MA. He holds MBA and Bachelor of Engineeringdegrees from Tulane, and a Ph.D. in environmental science and engineering from UCLA.

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    Grasshopper MendozaHorizon Initiative Water Management; The Idea Village

    Grasshopper Mendoza is a real estate sales and leasing professional with NAI/Latter & BlumInc. where she emphasizes energy efficient and sustainable building development in thecommercial sector. Grasshopper is an entrepreneur with a background in small business,networking, civic leadership and integrated water management strategies. She Chairsthe Horizon Initiative Water Management Committee and the New Orleans MetropolitanAssociation of Realtors (NOMAR) Commercial Investment Division (CID) Green BuildingCommittee. Grasshopper is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at The Idea Village for the WaterChallenge Business Competition promoting water as an entrepreneurial opportunity andregional asset.

    Robert K. MillerSewerage and Water Board of New Orleans

    Bob Miller moved to New Orleans to become Deputy Director at Sewerage and Water Boardin 2008. He is responsible for Strategic Planning, Accounting, Customer Service, HumanResources, Information Technology, Risk Management, Environmental Services, and otheroperations support services. His focus since arriving has been on ensuring the sustainability

    and financial viability of the utility as it continues to recover from the devastating effects ofHurricane Katrina.

    Before moving to New Orleans, he was Chief Financial Officer at Louisville Water Companyand a management consultant to water and wastewater utilities. He has been extensivelyinvolved with the American Water Works Association as a utility peer reviewer and haspublished and presented more than thirty papers on utility management and operations. Hewas one of the primary authors of the AWWA Business Practices Standards and is recognizedas an industry leader in utility governance and enterprise risk management practices.

    He has a Bachelors Degree in Commerce from University of Louisville and a Masters Degreein Business Administration from Indiana University.

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    Peter MinnemaDura Vermeer

    Peter works as business developer at the Dutch construction firm Dura Vermeer. He focuseson creating business cases for urban area developments with aspects of flood adaptation andmitigating and/or sustainable energy use. He is also active at the Dutch Delta programme inthe role of bridging the gap between public and private sector in this national flood defenseprogramme. Peter studied urban area planning at the Delft University of Technology.

    David MuthNational Wildlife Federation (NWF)

    David Muth is a New Orleans native who has spent a lifetime in the Mississippi River delta andon the Louisiana coast, studying its geology, ecology, plants, wildlife, history and culture. Hetook his degree in history at University of New Orleans and became professionally interestedin the connection between culture and environment in the context of the delta. He worked

    for 30 years with the National Park Service at Jean Lafitte National Historical Park andPreserve in south Louisiana, eventually managing its natural and cultural resource programs.At the beginning of 2011, he joined the Mississippi River Delta Restoration Campaign as theLouisiana State Director of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF).

    The campaign is a joint effort among NWF, Environmental Defense Fund and the NationalAudubon Society, along with local partners like the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana,the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, the Louisiana Wildlife Federation, and the NatureConservancy of Louisiana, to bring about comprehensive, systemic restoration of theMississippi River delta. They are working to find and seek consensus and national support for

    an ecologically sound and sustainable program to restore the flow of the Mississippi River toits dying delta, and to do so in a way that preserves the communities and culture of coastalLouisiana to the maximum extent possible.

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    Albert P. NaquinChief, Isle de Jean Charles

    Chief Albert P. Naquin is a retired Federal employee. He retired from the Department ofInterior/Mineral Management Service (MMS) with 24 years of service. He was an oil fieldsafety inspector in the Gulf of Mexico for MMS and also for Bureau of Land Management(BLM) in Colorado and New Mexico.

    Albert P. Naquin is the chief of the community of Isle de Jean Charles and of the Isle de JeanCharles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, Inc. in Montegut, LA. He has been the chief since1997. He is the 5th chief of Isle de Jean Charles since the community started developing inthe early to mid 1800s. He is very proud to be the chief of a community of wonderful peopleand to follow the footsteps of the great leaders before him. The first three chiefs saw Isle deJean Charles grow from nothing to a beautiful community. Now as chief, Albert is watchingthe community that was so beautiful when he was growing up wash away, because of salt-water intrusion.

    Albert really didnt claim or want to be an Indian until 1995, because of what he went through asa child and the way people talked about Indians. In 1995 Thomas Dardar and Albert had a longtalk after a Pow-Wow about Indians and Albert also read Dee Browns book Bury My Heart at

    Wounded Knee. From then on Albert has been a true Indian and now chief.

    Nico van Os, MPASafety Region South Holland South

    N. (Nico) van Os is a police commissioner working for Safety Region South Holland Southsince 2004. The safety region is a public organisation, founded by 19 municipalitiesin the region, based on the Dutch Safety Region Act 2010. Within a safety region,several administrations and services with tasks in the field of fire fighting, disaster & crisismanagement, Medical Assistance in Accidents and Disasters (GHOR) and maintaining publicorder and safety collaborate. The Netherlands has 25 total safety regions. The Safety Regionhas important responsibilities not only in response and preparation but also in consultancyto the local government in pro-action and prevention matters, including risk and crisiscommunication. There is also a very close cooperation with the water boards. Through theRegion SHS, flow two of the main rivers in Holland and the water of the North Sea reaches theharbour of Dordrecht.

    In addition to being police commissioner, Nico is also a senior policy advisor and project

    manager. From 1999 till 2004 he worked for the ministry of Internal affairs as a senior policyadvisor and as a part time member of the national crisis centre. Since 2010 he has been aproject manager of the Interreg4c project MiSRaR and participates in the Interreg4b projectMARE.

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    Steven PeyronninCoalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL)

    Steven Peyronnin serves as the Executive Director for the Coalition to Restore CoastalLouisiana (CRCL). CRCL is a statewide advocacy organization focusing on coastal policyand public affairs issues related to the protection and restoration of a sustainable coastalLouisiana. He received a BA in Political Science from the University of Mississippi in 1995. Hecurrently serves on the Louisiana Coastal Master Plan Framework Development Team, theOutreach Committee for the Coastal Wetlands Planning Protection and Restoration Act andthe Americas Energy Coast Ecosystem Vulnerability Task Force. He is a member of the Boardof Directors for Restore Americas Estuaries and the Trust for Coastal Stewardship and serveson the Steering Committee of the Great Waters Coalition.

    Steve PicouLSU AgCenter

    Steve Picou is a sustainability professional, musician, writer and futurist with a background ingovernment, economic development, administration, strategic planning, media production,public safety, and energy efficiency/sustainable building. Steve brings systems-thinking toall his work. He applies his business acumen and skills to develop sustainable organizations

    that reflect principles of balance, equity, and cooperation with natural resources. Steve is anagent with the LSU AgCenter Cooperative Extension Service where he promotes climate-appropriate construction, energy efficiency and sustainability team development. A graduateof the University of New Orleans, he is a candidate for a Master of Science in Urban Studies in2013. Steve is a Fellow of the Institute for Environmental Communications and the Institute ofPolitics at Loyola University of New Orleans.

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    Charlotte RandolphLafourche Parish

    Charlotte Randolph is the President of Lafourche Parish. Charlotte is also the current ownerof Randolph Publications, a public relations and advertising company. Charlotte has beenthe recipient of several awards and recognitions due to her outstanding achievements. In2009, Charlotte was named one of New Orleans Magazines Top 10 Female Achievers andin 2001, she was named Business Person of the Year.

    Charlottes community involvement includes: President of Parishes Against Coastal Erosion(PACE), Steering Committee member of National Associate of Counties (NACo), Chairmanof the Board of the Chamber of Lafourche & the Bayou Region, and Board of Directorsmember of the Bayou Industrial Group.

    Derk van ReeDeltares, The Netherlands

    Derk van Ree is senior specialist currently with the Department of Scenario and PolicyAnalysis from Deltares, The Netherlands. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Physical Geographyand a Masters Degree in Geohydrology from the Free Reformed University in Amsterdam(The Netherlands). He is senior specialist in the environmental field related to soil andgroundwater issues including environmental impact assessment and sustainable developmentof the subsurface. He is actively involved in a number of European networks and researchprojects in the field of soil and groundwater.

    He has been project manager for the Biogrout-development in the research area SmartSoilsto develop processes and technologies to adapt subsurface properties in situ to the geo-engineering needs e.g. by using biochemical processes with bacteria. The process is currently

    being looked at as a potential technology to prevent internal erosion at critical locations inflood defences.

    He is the European project coordinator for the EU Seventh Framework Programme researchproject FloodProBE on technologies for the cost-effective Flood Protection of the BuiltEnvironment, a project in which 14 partners from 7 different European Member Statesperform cooperative research in the field of flood risk management. He also is member of thelocal organizing committee for the international FLOODrisk2012-conference in Rotterdam(NL) that will be held from November 20-22th 2012.

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    Liesbeth van Riet PaapRoom for the River, The Netherlands

    Liesbeth van Riet Paap is the Environmental Implementation Manager and a member ofthe Board of Directors of the Dutch government program Room for the River. Liesbeth vanRiet Paap is responsible for the process coordination and knowledge exchange betweenpoliticians, civil servants, project teams and public works of the Room for the Riverprogram. She is also continually promoting the integration of science research and watermanagement policy in the Room for the River program.

    At the European Union level, Room for the River is Lead Partner for two large projects ofthe European Union: Adaptive Land use for Flood Alleviation (ALFA) and FloodResilienCity(FRC). Liesbeth is the project manager for both projects and is responsible for theknowledge exchange between the Programma Room for the River, Rijkswaterstaat and theEuropean projects. At the international level Liesbeth van Riet Paap coordinates the Roomfor the River multilevel governance approach in the United States, China and Australia.

    Liesbeth van Riet Paap has a wealth of experience in the field of Infrastructural, Water andTransport management and has worked for Rijkswaterstaat for 17 years. Liesbeth van RietPaap acquired her Masters in Political History of the Modern Times and OrganisationalAdministration from the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands.

    Jeroen RijkeRoom for the River, The Netherlands

    Jeroen Rijke is a consultant and a PhD candidate (TU Delft/UNESCO-IHE) who is specializedin water governance, transition management and programme evaluation. Having anacademic background in civil engineering, environmental engineering and policy science,his work focuses primarily on the interface between technology and governance. As

    such, he was involved in projects about mainstreaming of innovations in urban watermanagement, climate adaptation in urban areas and flood risk management. Jeroen hasworked in several different countries in Europe, Africa and Australia. Currently, he isworking on a scientific evaluation of the 2.3 billion Euro flood safety programme Room forthe River (the Netherlands) in which he studies how multi-level governance arrangementsenable integrated river basin management.

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    Colonel Pat Santos (Ret.)Governors Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness

    Colonel Pat Santos (Ret.) joined the Louisiana Army National Guard in June 1979. In December1981, he was commissioned a Distinguished Military Graduate from the ROTC program atthe University of New Orleans. As a member of the famed 1-141st Field Artillery Battalion heserved in various command and staff positions and was activated for Desert Storm in 1990with the 256th Combat Brigade. While serving in the State Headquarters he was the leadproject officer launching the first Louisiana State Partnership Programs with the countriesof Uzbekistan and Belize. Currently, as the Deputy Director of Emergency Managementwithin the Governors Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP)Santos has primary oversight of all of the States emergency management functions. He is a

    principal advisor to the Governor and the State Unified Command during emergencies such asHurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008 and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010.

    In 1981 Santos earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from theUniversity of New Orleans and a Masters Degree in Organizational Management in 1997. Heis a graduate of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Staff School and the Command and GeneralStaff College. He was awarded a fellowship and completed the National PreparednessLeadership Program focusing on Meta-Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School forExecutive Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2010.

    Cynthia M. SarthouGulf Restoration Network

    Cynthia (Cyn) M. Sarthou is Executive Director of the Gulf Restoration Network (GRN),headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. The GRN is a diverse network of groups andindividuals concerned about the long-term health of the Gulf of Mexico and committed to

    uniting and empowering people to protect and restore the resources of the Gulf Region. TheGRN currently works to: (1) protect and restore Louisianas natural storm defenses; (2) protectwater resources affecting the Gulf; (3) build resilient coastal communities facing the effectsof global climate change (4) protect the Gulfs threatened and endangered species; and (5)obtain sustainable management of federal fisheries.

    Sarthou received her B.A. from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, her law degreefrom the University of Mississippi in 1983 and her Masters of Law in Law and Marine Affairsfrom the University of Washington in 1992. From 1992-1995 she was staff attorney for Heartof America Northwest in Seattle, Washington, a citizens group committed to quality of life

    issues in the Northwest.

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    Elizabeth Boo ThomasPresident and CEO, Center for Planning Excellence

    Well versed in local community planning activities, Thomas has led neighborhood redevelopmentefforts in Baton Rouge since obtaining her Masters degree in Landscape Architecture from LSU. Asthe former head of Plan Baton Rouge and the Mid-City Redevelopment Alliance, Thomas has beenan advocate for smart growth in Louisiana throughout her career. After Katrina, she led CPEX infacilitating the Louisiana Speaks recovery process, the largest planning effort ever undertaken inLouisiana. The process resulted in the Louisiana Speaks Regional Plan, a comprehensive plan createdthrough the participation of over 27,000 South Louisiana residents.

    In recognition of her contributions to Louisiana, Thomas has been honored by the BatonRouge Chamber of Commerce, the YMCA, the Baton Rouge Business Report, LSU and theLouisiana Architecture Foundation. In 2009, Thomas and CPEX were awarded the OlmstedMedal by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for incredible leadership andset the standard for bringing community members and leaders together to work toward ashared vision for future growth and development.

    David WaggonnerWaggonner & Ball Architects

    David Waggonner is principal of Waggonner & Ball Architects, a New Orleans- basedarchitecture and planning fi rm. Subsequent to Hurricane Katrina, Waggonner & Balldeveloped the Recovery Framework for St. Bernard Parish. With the support of the RoyalNetherlands Embassy and the American Planning Association, Mr. Waggonner has continuedthe effort to define more intelligently the planning and redevelopment problem that the NewOrleans region presents. A series of Dutch Dialogues has been initiated, to inform the peoplein the urbanized lower Mississippi River Delta about ways to integrate infrastructure, visibleand invisible, with surface, ground, and water to live safely and beneficially in south Louisiana.

    Waggonner received his undergraduate education at Duke University, and a Master ofArchitecture from Yale University. Mr. Waggonner has served as principal-in-charge ofmultiple award-winning architectural projects in education, ecclesiastical, office, hotel, retail,renovation and restoration categories.

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    Patty WhitneyBayou History Center

    Patty Whitney is a native of southeastern coastal Louisiana. She is a graduate of NichollsState University and is the mother of three sons and the grandmother of two grandsons.

    After retiring as an Official Court Reporter, Patty began working as an organizer with BayouInterfaith Shared Community Organizing (commonly known as BISCO) in Thibodaux,Louisiana. She has continued in her position there and currently serves as BISCOsEnvironmental Advocacy Specialist and writer. BISCO uses community organizing toaddress social justice issues in the Bayou Region of coastal Louisiana and is prized as a trustedvoice for the people in the environmentally devastated region.

    Patty has received numerous honors for her environmental and coastal advocacy work and isknown for her humorous style and Cajun jokes in presentations, as well as explaining complextheories and systems in simple and practical ways.

    Patty is an avid genealogist and currently serves as the Director of Bayou History Center, Inc.,a newly formed nonprofit dedicated to the vision of Studying Yesterday to Understand Todayand Improve Tomorrow.

    John C. WilliamsJohn C. Williams Architects

    John C. Williams is the Principal in Charge of John C. Williams Architects, based in NewOrleans, Louisiana. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree, Bachelor of Architecture andMaster in Architecture from Tulane University. John Williams is a member of the AmericanInstitute of Architects, the Governors Committee of Coastal Protection, the Board ofAdvisors for the Tulane School, and the Board of Longue Vue House & Gardens. He serveson the steering committee of the Neighborhood Planning Network, and was elected as theNeighborhood Planner for the Lower Ninth Ward with the Unified New Orleans Plan. SinceHurricane Katrina, Williams Architects has been closely involved in planning and rebuildingprojects in the Lower Ninth Ward. As the Neighborhood Planning Team for the Unified NewOrleans Plan, Williams Architects has partnered with neighborhood organizations to ensureever-present resident participation in the recovery effort. The firm also acts as the ExecutiveArchitect and Architect of Record for both the Global Green Holy Cross Project and theMake it Right Project, aiming to improve residents access to safe, affordable, healthy, andsustainable housing.

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    Jeana C. WiserBRWIII

    Jeana C. Wiser is one of the BRWIII organizers. She recently graduated from the Universityof Washingtons College of the Built Environment with a Master of Urban Planning degree(2011). While attending UW, Jeana was the lead Research Assistant for the Center forHazard Mitigation Planning and Research. As lead Research Assistant, Jeana was in chargeof a Washington coast tsunami vertical evacuation joint pilot project with the State ofWashington Emergency Management Division. Also, at UW, Jeana was the lead ResearchAssistant for a King County, Washington grant-funded project documenting and providingguidance for Seattles unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings, particularly with emphasison the relationship between hazard mitigation and historic preservation in the context of

    seismic retrofits in older, existing URM buildings.Currently, Jeana is the National Trust for Historic Preservations Preservation Green Lab(PGL) Research Fellow in Seattle, Washington. As Research Fellow for PGL, Jeana workson policy development and research pertaining to existing buildings and particularly onbuilding reuse and energy retrofit strategies for older, smaller, existing buildings.

    Jeana also has a BS in Ethnic Studies and a BS in Liberal Studies from Oregon State

    University.

    Carolyn Woosley, CFPChenier Plain Committee of Chamber SWLA; Executive Board, CRCL(Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana)

    Carolyn Woosley, CFP retired, is a Lake Charles native and resident with degrees fromTulane (B.A., history) and U.C.L.A. (M.A., urban planning). Her financial planning practicewas Los Angeles-based. Since returning to SWLA she has been active in issues rangingfrom downtown development to restoring access to National Public Radio to coastalpreservation and is the 2004 recipient of the Civic Service Award of the Chamber/Alliance

    SWLA.Woosley serves on the Executive Board of Directors of the Coalition to Restore CoastalLouisiana (CRCL). She co-founded and co-chairs the Chenier Plain Committee of theChamber SWLA. Her focus as advocate is on the Chenier Plain.

    As a playwright Woosleys body of work includes stageplays, screenplays and one libretto.During 2010 AlterEgo Productions toured six of Woosleys 13 monologues -- collectivelyentitled Louisiana Women -- throughout the State in two companies, one Lake Charles-based and the other, Shreveport-based and partnered with Mahogany Ensemble Theatre.

    AlterEgo also worked with the Ogden Museum of the South to produce two of themonologues, Clyde (Connell) and Clementine (Hunter) during New Orleans FringeFestival 2010.

    Woosley is most proud of her daughter, Brooke, a Los Angeles-based designer.

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    Ann YoachimTulane Institute on Water Resources Law & Policy

    Ann Yoachim is Program Manager at the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law & Policy.Her current work helps shape policies and programs at the local, state, and federal level onnon-structural mitigation, climate change adaptation, and long-term disaster recovery. Ms.Yoachim has over fifteen years of experience providing technical assistance to communities inboth international and domestic settings on a broad range of issues related to health and theenvironment. She has an MPH from Tulane Universitys School of Public Health and TropicalMedicine where she serves as adjunct faculty in the Department of Environmental Health

    Sciences and a BA in Environmental Studies and Political Science from Dickinson College.

    Dr. Jason CS YuDept of Marine Environment and Engineering,National Sun Yat-sen University

    Dr. Jason CS Yu, Assistant Professor at the Dept of Marine Environment and Engineering,National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He is in charged also with the steeringof the Centre of Water Resources Research and head of the International Exchange of theuniversity. He has been responsible for the development of a system of marine operationalmodels on forecasting tide, storm surge and ocean currents in the seas around Taiwan. He has

    designed a cluster of coastal constructed wetlands for coastal flooding resilience and waterquality management for Dapeng Bay, south Taiwan. He has been involved with several EUprojects, i.e. CENAS, MMARIE, PROMISE, TROPOS.

    Chris ZevenbergenIHE-UNESCO, TU Delft & Dura Vermeer, Netherlands

    Chris Zevenbergen is the director of the Business Development Department of DuraVermeerGroup NV and professor at the Water Engineering Department of UNESCO-IHE and

    TuDelft, The Netherlands. He worked in the 1980s as a researcher on various environmentalissues related to the building industry followed by 20 years of research and consultancy inenvironmental engineering and water management of urban systems. In the past 15 years hehas accumulated extensive national and international experience with integrated approachesto manage floods in urban environments with a specific interest in innovative concepts tomitigate urban flood impacts, flood proofing building designs and technologies and decisionsupport tool development in urban planning with practical application in urban floodmanagement.

    He has published/edited five books in the field of environmental engineering and urban floodmanagement. He was co-founder and chairman of the European Network COST C22 onUrban Flood Management. He chairs the Flood Resilience Group (FRG) and is member of theboards of the Dutch Living with Water program, the Netherlands Water Partnership, and theCooperative Program Water and Climate. He is member of the editorial board of the Journalof Flood Risk Management.

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