BRW IV Program: March 2013

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RESILIENCEWORKSHOP IV

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WORKSHOP IVAdapting to Uncertanity

Implementing Resilience in Times of Change

March 7-9, 2013 Lindy C. Boggs Internationl Conference Center2045 Lakeshore Drive, Suite 248

New Orleans, Louisiana


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WELCOME

Welcome to the Building Resilience Workshop IV

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 (BRW) I, II, III, and IV have been organized with the goals ofidentifying and fostering the implementation of innovative and sustainablestrategies to reduce New Orleans and south Louisianas vulnerability topotentially catastrophic hazards, both natural and man-made, particularlythose that result in severe flooding.

The 2010 BRW I addressed a broad range of water- and flood-relatedissues, with discussions centered on sustainable approaches to rebuildinga culture of resilience in south Louisiana, spurred by impending climatechange. The 2011 BRW II focused on the role that innovative, sustainableinfrastructure can play in mitigating catastrophic disaster, both by reducingthe risk of harmful consequences from extreme events and by facilitatingrapid recovery. Experts from across the globe shared innovative disastermitigation approaches and transition methodologies that facilitateimplementation. The 2012 BRW III again brought together a diverse group

of participants, including members of the pan-European research projectFloodProBE, which focuses on developing innovative technologies, methods,and tools for urban flood risk assessment and reduction. Discussions weredevoted to the Louisiana Draft 2012 Coastal Master Plan and its implicationsfor coastal Louisiana communities, as well as national and international floodrisk reduction strategies and their compatibility with our unique local ways oflife.


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This year, the Building Resilience workshop continues the tradition offostering peer learning, with a focus on implementable solutions. BRW IVwill bring together resilience professionals, policy makers, and communitymembers in an opening discussion on the challenges of implementing

resilience measures, setting the stage for panels and keynote speakersto discuss our most critical needs, potential solutions, and stategies fortheir implementation. The workshop will explore how to make decisionsthat promote community safety in the face of uncertain future conditions,grounding discussions in real world applications on how best to fund,communicate and implement these decisions.

Thank you for your participation and engagement in this critical discussionon how to create a more promising and resilient future for our southLouisiana communities.


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REGISTRATION & COFFEE

WELCOME

Miriam BelblidiaGrasshopper Mendoza

KEYNOTE - Beyond Elevate & Relocate:New Ideas in Non-Structural Mitigation

Moderator: Mark DavisSpeaker: Elizabeth English

PANEL - Advancing Resilience When the Sun ShinesModerator: Patty WhitneySpeakers: Mark Davis

Jamelyn Trucks

Morgan CrutcherJeff WilliamsDavid Waggonner

BREAK

KEYNOTE - Decision-Making in the Face of Uncertainty

Moderator: Rob VerchickSpeakers: Vicki Arroyo

PANEL - Resilience and Implementation of the Coastal Master Plan

Moderator: Charles AllenSpeakers: Jerome Zeringue

Karim BelhadjaliMelanie Saucier

LUNCH

WORKSHOP SCHEDULEFRIDAY 8 MARCH 2013

8:15 - 9:00 AM

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Pat ForbesTelley Madina

Arthur JohnsonRosina Philippe


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KEYNOTE - Implementing Social Change

Moderator: Ezra BoydSpeaker: J. T. Lockman

PANEL - Resilience Economics

Moderator: Jeff ThomasSpeakers: Bob Miller

Jamelyn Trucks

Sarah MackBrian JacksonRobin Barnes

Respondents: Jerome ZeringueJ. T. Lockman

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PANEL - Combining Diverse Approaches:Structural vs Non-Structural & Shelter-in-Place vs Evacuation

Moderator: David MuthSpeakers: Bob Turner

Chris PulaskiReggie DupreLen BahrCol. Jerry SneedJosh GillKevin Lovetro

Respondents: Gene BarrBob Tannen

COMMENTS - Reflections on Day 1

Shirley LaskaJeff Thomas

RECEPTION

1:30 - 2:00 PM

2:00 - 3:15 PM

3:15 - 3:30 PM

3:30 - 4:45 PM

4:45 - 5:00 PM

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WORKSHOP SCHEDULESATURDAY 9 MARCH 2013REGISTRATION & COFFEE

WELCOME

Alessandra JerollemanJeana Wiser

KEYNOTE -Louisianas Legacy of Living with Water

Moderator: Craig Colten

Speaker: Ron Thibodeaux

PANEL - Communicating Risk and Resilience

Moderator: Kristina PetersonSpeakers: Boo Thomas

Nick SpeyrerCyn Sarthou

Kevin McCaffreyJessica LudyRon Thibodeaux

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KEYNOTE COMMENTS - Critical Needs for Community Resilience

Moderator: Pat SkinnerSpeakers: Derk van ReeCraig ColtenGene BarrTim Osborn

LUNCH

8:15 - 9:00 AM

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PANEL - Real World Application: Implementing Resilience in Terrebonne

Moderator: Michel ClaudetSpeakers: Pat Gordon

Reggie DupreJennifer GerbasiChief Albert NaquinRebecca TempletonMelissa DaigleScott Porter

PANEL - Moving Forward: BRW Board of Advisors

Moderator: Maura WoodPanelists: Craig Colten

Brian JacksonShirley Laska

Chief Albert NaquinSteve PicouCyn SartouCol. Jerry SneedBoo ThomasPatty Whitney

CONCLUDING COMMENTS

Miriam BelblidiaElizabeth English

1:15 - 2:30 PM

2:30 - 3:45 PM

3:45 - 4:00 PM


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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 hisBachelors of Science degree in Biology from Xavier University of Louisiana and his Masters ofScience in Public Health from Tulane University. Allen is a life-long resident of New Orleans.

Vicki Arroyo

Georgetown Climate Center of Georgetown LawVicki Arroyo is Executive Director of the Georgetown Climate Center of Georgetown Lawwhere she is also a Visiting Professor, teaching experiential classes on climate change law andpolicy. She oversees the Centers work on climate change mitigation and adaptation at thestate and federal level, and she facilitates the Transportation and Climate Initiative (a projectof 12 northeast jurisdictions to reduce energy use and emissions from the transportationsector). She previously served at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, most recentlyas Vice President for Policy Analysis and General Counsel. For over a decade, she directedPews policy analysis, science, adaptation, economics, and U.S. policy programs. She has

worked at all levels of government and in the private sector on environmental issues,including serving in two offices of EPA (Office of Air and Radiation and Office of Research andDevelopment) and as Policy Director for Louisianas Department of Environmental Qualityand Environmental Advisor to Gov. Roemer. She served on the advisory panel to the GulfCoast study (phase 1) on adapting transportation infrastructure to climate change, on aTransportation and Research Board panel that produced a recent report on reducing energyand greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector, and on the Economic andAllocation Advisory Committee to California regarding implementation of its cap-and-tradeprogram. She currently serves on the Executive Committee of the national Transportation

Research Board, on the Board of Trustees for the University Corporation for AtmosphericResearch, and on National Science Foundations Advisory Board on Geosciences.


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Len BahrLA Coast Post

Len Bahr is the founding editor of LaCoastPost.com. His educational background consists of aBachelor of Science in Zoology from the University of Maryland, a Master of Science in biologyand ecology from the University of Richmond, and a doctorate in Zoology and Coastal Ecologyfrom the University of Georgia. Dr. Bahr has previously served as Coastal Advisor to GovernorBobby Jindal in 2008. He was the director of the Governers Applied Coastal Science Programin 2004 - 2007 and acted as executive assistant to the Governor for the Governors Office ofCoastal Activities from 1993 - 2003. In addition to his work for the Governor, Dr. Bahr has alsobeen an adjunct professor at the Environmental Studies Institute before becoming an associateinstructor at the Louisiana State University. Dr. Bahr is the recipient of several awards, such asthe Louisiana Conservationist of the Year from the Louisiana Wildlife Federation in 2008, andCoalition to Restore Coastal Louisianas professional Coastal Stewardship Award in 1997.

Robin BarnesGreater New Orleans, Inc.

Robin Barnes oversees a number of administrative and programmatic functions at GNO, Inc.including research, policy, and communications. Major initiatives developed and administeredby Robin include Emerging Environmental and the Greater New Orleans Water Plan and she isleading GNO, Inc.s efforts to establish a growth industry around coastal restoration and watermanagement.

Robin is a member of the investment committee of the New Orleans Startup Fund, themarketumbrella.org Community Advisory Board, the NOLA Wise Advisory Board and the Boardof Directors of Regions Bank Community Development Corporation.

Formerly, she was Senior Vice President and Managing Director for Louisiana at SeedcoFinancial, a national nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution.

In 2006, Robin relocated from New York City to New Orleans to open Seedco FinancialsLouisiana field office and implement the organizations emergency business and economicrecovery response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. At Seedco Financial, Barnes deployed nearly$30 million in emergency grants and loans to a total of 1,000 small businesses in the greaterNew Orleans region. Also, She opened the Seedco Financial Southeast Louisiana FisheriesAssistance Center in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, the only known business assistance drop in centerfor small fisheries businesses. Following 9/11, Robin oversaw private fundraising for Seedcos$45 million disaster recovery program and managed small business technical assistancecomponent of this program.


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Gene BarrConsultant

Mr. Gene Barr attended Marshall University and was employed by the Huntington District, Corpsof Engineers for 42 years until his retirement in 2009. Mr. Barr was a Community Planner withthe Corps and his experience included Plan Formulation, Flood Plain Management and Non-structural Flood Risk Reduction Studies. Mr. Barr served as the Huntington Districts FloodproofingCoordinator, Project Manager and Program Manager responsible for managing and implementinga multimillion dollar non-structural program. Mr. Barr was recognized throughout the Corps as anauthority on the use of non-structural measures and also served 12 years on the Corps NationalNon-structural/Floodproofing Committee (NFPC). He has consulted with other federal, stateand local governmental agencies nationwide in providing guidance on nonstructural measurestechniques and methodologies. He is currently a member of the Association of State Flood PlainManagers (ASFPM) Nonstructural/ Floodproofing Committee and a Certified Flood Plain Manager(CFM).Mr. Barr has an extensive background in residential nonstructural flood risk reduction andhas also played a key advisory role in developing alternative solutions for reducing flood riskfor commercial, governmental and industrial structures. The most notable of these projectsinclude the U.S. Naval Academy Campus in Annapolis, Amphenol Corporation in Sydney, New

York, and flood risk reduction studies for the Gulf Coast in both Louisiana and Mississippi. Mr.Barr also has extensive experience in working with FEMA which is recognized by his inclusion

as a referenced contributor and reviewer to FEMAs publication of Engineering Principles andPractices for Retrofitting Flood-Prone Residential Structures. He currently is serving on theTechnical Steering Committee for FEMAs revision to the Floodproofing for Non-ResidentialStructures publication.

Miriam S. BelblidiaWater Works, L3C; BRW Steering Committee

Miriam Belblidia is the founding partner of Louisiana Water Works, L3C, a water managementsocial entrepreneurship focused on flood mitigation and water quality planning. Previously,she worked as a Hazard Mitigation Specialist for the City of New Orleans, where she helpedadminister federal hazard mitigation grants, coordinated the 2010 Orleans Parish HazardMitigation Plan update, and led efforts to develop the Citys Stormwater ManagementProgram. Miriam Belblidia received a 2010-2011 Fulbright Fellowship in Water Managementto conduct research at the Technical University of Delfts Hydraulic Engineering Department.In the Netherlands, she examined the components of successful water management andundertook a comparative analysis to determine how New Orleans can implement bestpractices to prevent future flooding. She is a Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM) andreceived her MPA degree in urban and regional affairs from the University of Pittsburgh

(2009), focusing on civil security and disaster management. During her graduate studies,Miriam worked as a member of the Interactive, Intelligent, Spatial Information Systems(IISIS) team at the Center for Disaster Management and worked with the Center for HazardAssessment, Response, and Technology (CHART) at the University of New Orleans. She haspublished research on the role of information technology and community resiliency.


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Karim BelhadjaliCoastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA)

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 withfederal partners. Prior to his current position, he served in the US Peace Corps as the MarineFisheries Advisor to the government of Tuvalu, Central Pacific. He formulated fisheries policyincluding regulatory reform and fisheries management plans, to protect and conserve themarine resources of Tuvalu.

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

Ezra BoydLake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation

Ezra Boyd is a hazards geographer and disaster scientists who resides in New Orleans. Herecently earned his PhD from Louisiana State University, and his dissertation presented acomprehensive assessment and analysis of deaths associated with Hurricane Katrina and thecatastrophic failure of the Federal levee system for southeast Louisiana. While at LSU, heparticipated in the Team Louisiana report for the Louisiana Department of Transportation andDevelopment and co-authored the Health Care and Disaster Planning book for the LouisianaState Medical Society. His research on the preparations, response, and impacts of HurricaneKatrina has been published in Risk Analysis, Public Performance and Management Review, andRisk, Hazards, and Crisis in Public Policy.


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Brad CaseDepartment of Hazard Mitigation, City of New Orleans;BRW Board of Advisors

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 Office

also represents the City throughout the state and the country to promote and achieve thesustainability and resilience of the City.

Michel ClaudetTerrebonne Parish

Michel H. Claudet was elected the sixth President of Terrebonne Parish in November 2007promising a sweeping New Way reform agenda. With President Claudets election cameunprecedented progress in Terrebonne Parish. Under President Claudets management,Terrebonne Parish has been consistently recognized for its regional and statewide leadership.

Key to President Claudets plan to better Terrebonne Parish includes: building hurricaneprotection levees, rebuilding the parishs barrier islands and coast, improving roadways,fighting to lower insurance rates, and advancing new quality of life initiatives. PresidentsClaudet was overwhelming re-elected in 2011.

President Claudet also served the people of Terrebonne Parish during hurricanes Gustav,Ike, and Isaac the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, and the Atchafalaya River high water

event of 2011.

Prior to his service as Parish President, Claudet worked as a successful entrepreneur focusingon the areas of real estate, finance, hotels, and restaurants. Before being elected to publicoffice, Claudet was instrumental in the building of the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center andthe renowned Terrebonne Parish Library system.

Claudet, a native of Lockport, earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Accounting fromLouisiana State University and a Juris Doctorate from Loyola University in New Orleans.President Claudet also earned the distinction of being a Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

and a Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU).


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Craig ColtenDepartment of Geography and Anthropology, LSU; BRW Board of Advisors

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.

Morgan CrutcherCoalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL)

As the Technical and Policy Analyst at the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL),Morgan combines accurate and reliable scientific, technical, and policy information for the

purpose of establishing CRCLs advocacy positions. Her previous work experience includestime spent at the lobbying office of Ducks Unlimited in D.C., and as a research assistant at theUSGS Great Lakes Science Center in Michigan. She has volunteered across Western Africaand Central America and has called New Orleans home since 2000. Morgan has a bachelors inenvironmental studies from Loyola University, New Orleans and a masters in natural resourcepolicy from the School of Natural Resources and the Environment (SNRE) at the University of

Michigan.

Melissa Daigle

Louisiana Sea Grant Law & Policy ProgramMelissa Daigle is a Research Associate for the Louisiana Sea Grant Law & Policy Program. TheLaw & Policy Program provides timely and relevant legal information for the users of Louisianascoastal lands and waters, including state and local governments, coastal businesses, commercialand recreational fisheries, non-governmental organizations, and the general public. Melissaswork focuses on hazard resiliency for local governments and citizens of coastal areas, as well asoverseeing legal research performed by six legal interns.

Melissa holds a bachelors degree in English from Nicholls State University, a Masters degree in

English from Louisiana State University, and a bachelors of civil law and a Juris Doctorate from thePaul M. Hebert School of Law at Louisiana State University.


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Mark DavisTulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy;

BRW Board of AdvisorsMark 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 taught

at the Indiana University (Indianapolis) School of Business and the IIT-Chicago Kent Schoolof 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.

Reggie DupreTerrebonne Levee & Conservation District

Reggie Dupre is currently serving in his fourth year as the Executive Director of the TerrebonneLevee & Conservation District. Mr. Dupre has served for over 21 consecutive years as an electedofficial in South Louisiana: as a member of the Terrebonne Parish Council (1988-1996), the LouisianaHouse of Representatives for District 53 (1996-2001), and as the Louisiana State Senator for District20 (2001-2009) representing the majority of Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes. In his last 2 yearsin the Senate, he served as the Chairman of the Senate Natural Resources Committee. During his13 years in the Louisiana Legislature, he was the Governors legislative floor leader on coastalissues under three Louisiana Governors: Gov. Foster, Gov Blanco, and Gov. Jindal.

Mr. Dupres most notable Legislative achievements include the creation of the Louisiana CoastalProtection and Restoration Authority (CPRA), the Constitutional Amendment dedicating 100% ofall future Federal outer continental shelf (OCS) oil and gas revenues for hurricane protection andcoastal restoration purposes, and the Legislative adoption of the first integrated coastal protectionmaster plan in 2007. Senator Dupre was able to get a unanimous vote of his colleagues for allthree of these landmark coastal achievements.

Mr. Dupre has a BA from LSU in Political Science, and a JD from Loyola School of Law. He is a

lifelong resident of Terrebonne Parish, a native of Ponte-aux-Chenes, and a resident of Bourg, LA.He and his wife, Yvonne, have three children and five grandchildren.


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Byron EncaladeLouisiana Oystermen Association; BRW Board of Advisors

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.

Elizabeth C. EnglishUniversity of Waterloo School of Architecture, Canada; Buoyant FoundationProject (BFP); BRW Steering Committee

Dr. Elizabeth C English, Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Waterloo inOntario and formerly with the LSU Hurricane Center and Tulane School of Architecture inLouisiana, works on the development of amphibious foundation systems as a flood mitigation

strategy that supports the preservation of traditional housing forms and cultural practices.Her current focus is on projects in south Louisiana, the Canadian north, Bangladesh andNicaragua. She came to flood mitigation from a background of many years of research inthe field of wind engineering, specifically in the areas of wind effects on tall buildings andhurricane wind mitigation.

She is the founder and director of the Buoyant Foundation Project, a not-for-profitorganization based in Louisiana that is a leader in the development of amphibioustechnologies for affordable housing and for retrofitting existing homes. She is also thefounder and organizer of the Building Resilience Workshops in New Orleans. Both of these

projects promote strategies that work WITH water to enhance community resilience, andboth encourage the use of redundant forms of flood mitigation to diffuse the concentrationof risk that leads to catastrophe in the wake of the inevitable failure of a single-line-of-defense system. Dr. English is a member of the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association(NHMA), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Association of State Flood PlainManagers (ASFPM), the NHMA Climate Change Adaptation Committee, the ASCE Multi-Hazard Mitigation Committee, the ASFPM Non-Structural Floodproofing Committee and theUniversity of Waterloo Water Institute.

Dr. Englishs experience in education, practice, teaching and research is in both the fieldsof Architecture and Civil Engineering. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture andUrban Planning from Princeton University, a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Master of Science and PhD degrees inArchitectural Theory from the University of Pennsylvania.


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Patrick W. ForbesLouisiana Office of Community Development

Pat Forbes has been the Executive Director of the state Office of Community Developmentsince July 2011. In his executive capacity, he oversees the housing, economic developmentand infrastructure programs that utilize federal Community Development Block Grantsprovided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for recovery fromhurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike. Forbes has held several positions in the Office ofCommunity Developments Disaster Recovery Unit since 2010. He previously worked asa member of the staff of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, where he developed recoveryprograms for the states infrastructure, as well as providing outreach and technical assistanceto the affected local governments. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, Forbes served for two years as

an engineer and technical assistant in the Governors Office of Coastal Activities. Before hisstate service, he worked as a consulting environmental engineer, owned and operated his owncompany and served in numerous capacities at Georgia Pacifics Port Hudson paper mill.

Forbes holds both a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering and a masters degree inbusiness administration from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

Jennifer GerbasiTerrebonne Parish

Jennifer Gerbasi joined the Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government Department of Planningand Zoning, Houma, LA in July 2008 to implement the Long Term Recovery Plan goals for theParish including elevation and acquisition projects funded by FEMA as a result of the Katrina andRita hurricanes. August 2008 presented an opportunity to draft the Gustav/Ike Recovery Plan forover $135M in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds and later to manage $8.4MCDBG projects for acquisition, demolition, and marine debris removal. Since that time Jenniferhas developed successful applications for $43M FEMA hazard mitigation grant programs andis implementing $49.6M FEMA grants for elevations, acquisitions, reconstructions and stormreadiness programs and five critical facility hardening projects estimated at $5.3M. Ongoingand upcoming projects include developing partnerships with nonprofit groups, departments,government agencies, commercial interests and the general public to amend the Flood DamagePrevention Ordinance and develop the Hazard Mitigation Plan Update to reduce flood risk andwind damage in the Parish. Jennifers earlier work included policy and advocacy work in theareas of soil and water protection in Tennessee and the Mississippi River Basin, water rights, and

international trade.


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Joshua GillLouisiana Department of Children and Family Services

Joshua Gill is the Director of Emergency Preparedness Division for the Louisiana Departmentof Children and Family Services. In that role, he oversees the planning, preparedness andoperations of the departments emergency role during a disaster.

The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), as lead for EmergencySupport Function 6, maintains a state of readiness to provide for the mass care, emergencyassistance, mass feeding, housing and human services needs in response to all hazards and

emergency events that face Louisiana and its citizenry.

Pat GordonTerrebonne Parish

Patrick Gordon, Terrebonne Parish Planning Director, was born in Dublin, Ireland but grew upin Houma, Louisiana. Patrick is a 1977 graduate of the University of Southwestern Louisiana,where he obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in City and Regional Planning. Patrick isa member of the American Planning Association, Atchafalaya Trace Commission, and SouthCentral Regional Construction Council. He has also been designated by the Association of

State Floodplain Managers as a Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM). Mr. Gordon startedhis government career in 1978 as a Planner with the City of Houma and has served in thecapacity of Planning and Zoning Director for Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Governmentsince April 1988 as well as Interim Parish Manager in 2008 during the Gustav/Ike Hurricaneevents. Patrick enjoys recreational fishing with his family in Terrebonne Parish, Salt WaterFishing Capital of the World.


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Brian JacksonEnvironmental Defense Fund (EDF); BRW Board of Advisors

Brian Jackson is a community resiliency specialist for Environmental Defense Funds CoastalLouisiana Restoration project. He focuses on community resiliency and non-structural floodprotection in Southern Louisiana. Jackson works closely with the Lower 9th Ward, UnitedHouma Nation and Carrolton-Hollygrove communities to address their flood risks and futuresustainability in the face of a vanishing Mississippi River Delta.

Jackson has a B.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an M.A. in AppliedEconomics (with a focus on resource and environmental economics) from Johns Hopkins

University.

Alessandra JerollemanNatural Hazard Mitigation Association; BRW Steering Committee

Alessandra Jerolleman is the founder and Executive Director of the Natural Hazard MitigationAssociation (NHMA). She is also a Program Specialist in the Gulf Coast with Save theChildren USA, working on a resilience initiative around childrens needs in emergencies. Shecurrently serves as one of the Tri-Chairs for the National Hazard Mitigation CollaborativeAlliance, sits on the board of the Greater New Orleans Disaster Recovery Partnership, andsits on the Executive Committee of the American Society of Public Administrations Sectionon Emergency and Crisis Management. She is the co-author of a textbook, Natural HazardMitigation, which will be published by CRC Press in late 2011. She is currently a doctoralcandidate at the University of New Orleans. Ms. Jerolleman has acquired wide-ranging

experience in the private, non-profit, and academic sectors.


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Arthur JohnsonThe Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and

DevelopmentArthur was born in the Nations Capital but his roots are in New Orleans and date backto visits with his grandmother who lived in the Lower Ninth Ward on Fostall Street. Hegrew up in Washington, DC, and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from TheGeorge Washington University and the University of the District of Columbia, respectively.He relocated to New Orleans in 1999 where he has established himself as an accomplishedfundraising professional and non-profit leader with a number of educational institutionsand non-profit organizations. This has included work with Tulane and Xavier Universitiesand the New Orleans Public Schools. More recently, he has served as Regional VicePresident for Major Gifts with the American Heart Association, Director for the Office ofDevelopment for Episcopal Community Services of Louisiana, and Chief DevelopmentOfficer for Operation Reach. As CSEDs Executive Director, he is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the organization and works closely with staff and volunteers to advanceCSEDs key initiatives focused on Food Security, the Natural Environment and the BuiltEnvironment.

Shirley LaskaCenter for Hazards Assessment, Response & Technology (CHART);BRW Board of Advisors

Shirley Laska, PhD, is professor emerita of sociology and founding past director of theCenter for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology at the University of New Orleans(UNO-CHART). She has been conducting applied research on the social/environmentalinterface, natural & technological hazards, and disaster response, especially long-termrecovery and risk reduction, for 25 years. Her work includes studies on residential floodmitigation, hurricane response, coastal land loss effects, coastal fisheries, community riskassessment and risk management for coastal hazards, use of information technology andGIS as support tools for disaster 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 resilience 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 Katrinaand the BP oil leak.


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Jessica Ludy

Independent Consultant; UNESCO-IHEJessica Ludy is an independent consultant, currently working with Unesco-IHE in Delfton applications of the Dutch Multi-layered Safety policy in the United States. She hasbeen a lecturer and researcher for the University of California Berkeley, and the AssociateDirector of Flood Management with American Rivers. Jessica was a Fulbright Fellow in theNetherlands and a Scott Fellow in Rhine River basin countries where she worked to betterunderstand European flood policy and climate change adaptation strategies. She receivedher Masters degree in Environmental Planning from the University of California-Berkeley(2009), and her Bachelors of Science in Environmental Science from the University of

Vermont (2003).

Sarah MackTierra Resources

Dr. Sarah K. Mack, President and CEO of Tierra Resources, is a leader in the movement tomonetize wetland carbon offsets and focuses on innovative approaches to address the globalchallenges of climate mitigation, urbanization, and pollution through wetland and watermanagement. Dr. Mack led the development and was the lead author of the American CarbonRegistry Methodology, Restoration of Degraded Deltaic Wetlands of the Mississippi Delta,the first certified methodology for creating and monetizing carbon offset credits from wetlandrestoration activities. Dr. Mack is also leading the development of the first wetland carbon pilot

project in the nation.

Previously Sarah was the Technical Administrator of the Sewerage and Water Board of NewOrleans (S&WB) where she also served as the Emergency Liaison between the S&WB and otheragencies responsible for the initial response and later recovery of sewer, water, and drainageinfrastructure during the 2005 hurricane season. Dr. Mack initiated the S&WB long-termrecovery planning efforts and was responsible for the hazard mitigation activities that followed.

Dr. Mack holds a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry, a Masters of Science in Public Healthfocusing on Toxic and Hazardous Waste Management, and a Ph.D. in Global Sustainable

Resource Management from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.Dr. Mack is also an ASFPM Certified Floodplain Manager.


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Telley MadinaOxfam America

Born and raised in New Orleans Telley Savalas Madina is a graduate of Eleanor McMainSecondary School. Telley received a Bachelors of Science in Social Sciences from LoyolaUniversity New Orleans and is currently pursuing a Masters in Public Policy from theUniversity of New Orleans. He is proud member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. DuringHurricane Katrina Telley works as a Business Service Representative and IntergovernmentalAffairs Liaison for City of New Orleans where he worked to promote small businessdevelopment, policy change and contracting opportunities following Hurricane Katrina.

Telley is former Executive Director of LA Oystermen Association Telley has advocated for

contracting opportunities for minority fishermen. Currently he works as Coastal CommunitiesProgram Officer for Oxfam America concerned with coastal restoration and workforcedevelopment projects in Gulf Coast.

Telley is married to Tallace Encalade Madina. The couple resides in New Orleans and has twochildren, Telley Jr. and Lacey.

Steve MathiesCARDNO; BRW Board of Advisors

Steve Mathies is a native of the New Orleans metropolitan area and lived in New Orleanssince 1989. Currently he serves as a Technical Director with Cardno, and Australian-basedenvironmental and engineering consulting firm. He has more than 30 years of professionalenvironmental experience focus on ecosystem restoration and/or hurricane protection in theLouisiana Gulf Coast region. His service to the public sector includes the Louisiana CoastalProtection and Restoration Authority, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Louisiana

Department of Natural Resources and the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program.In the private sector he has worked with the Battelle Memorial Institute and CH2M HILL.He currently serves on the steering committees for Deltas2013: Vietnam, the AmericasGreat Watershed Initiative, Big River Works, and Visioning the Lower Mississippi River. Hispast accomplishments have resulted in recognition by Louisiana Governor Mike Foster, theCoastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act Task Force, the American PlanningAssociation, and being selected as the Professional Conservationist of the Year by theLouisiana Wildlife Federation.

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Kevin McCaffreye/Prime Media LLC

Nationally recognized and award winning documentary film producer Kevin McCaffrey iswinner of the 2012 Louisiana Humanities Documentary of the Year Award, a James BeardAward finalist in broadcast media, and a writer, editor, oral historian, publisher, reviewer andconsultant, with a long history of both commercial and volunteer service and collaboration.McCaffrey is owner of e/Prime Media LLC, specializing in research and media productsrelating to culture, history, environment and design in Louisiana and around the rim of theGulf of Mexico. e/Prime has done research work for the State of Louisiana, produced video forsuch disparate clients as The Historic New Orleans Collection, the Louisiana State Museum,The New Orleans Museum of Art, Newcomb College Institute at Tulane University, Galatoires

Restaurant and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Before Hurricane Katrina in 2005 he produced an educational environmental film entitled TheFuture Is Now with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as client. It discussed planning to savethe coast and was negated by the events of the flooding of New Orleans.

Kevin has given presentations on Cajun resiliency in Paris, France and Tuxtla Gutierez Mexico,at conferences of the World Psychiatric Association. and he was named the first male VisitingScholar for 2009-2010 at the Newcomb Center for Research on Women at Tulane University,mentoring in the Sophielab Media program and researching food culture issues.

Grasshopper MendozaHorizon Initiative Water Management; The Water Challenge;BRW Steering Committee

Grasshopper Mendoza is a real estate broker with NAI/Latter & Blum Inc. where sheemphasizes green building and sustainable development in the commercial sector. SheCo-Chairs the Horizon Initiatives Water Management Committee and serves as a programmanager for the award-winning Greater New Orleans Foundation/Idea Village WaterChallenge business development competition. She is a Fellow of the Loyola Institute forEnvironmental Communication and of the Puentes Public Leaders Fellowship. Grasshopperearned a degree in International Business from San Francisco State University, and studied forthree semesters at Mexicos ITESM University. She has happily called New Orleans her homesince 2003.


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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 sustainabilityand 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 extensively

involved with the American Water Works Association as a utility peer reviewer and haspublished and presented more than thirty papers on utility management and operations.

He has a Bachelors Degree in Commerce from University of Louisville and a Masters Degree

in Business Administration from Indiana University.

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 workedfor 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 foran 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, Montegut, LA; BRW Board of Advisors

Chief Albert P. Naquin is a retired Federal employee. He retired from the Departmentof Interior/Mineral Management Service (MMS) with 24 years of service. He was anoil field safety inspector in the Gulf of Mexico for MMS and also for Bureau of LandManagement (BLM) in Colorado and New Mexico.

Albert P. Naquin is the chief of the community of Isle de Jean Charles and of the Islede Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, Inc. in Montegut, LA. He hasbeen the chief since 1997. Since the community started developing in the early to mid1800s, he is the 5th chief of Isle de Jean Charles. He is very proud to be the chief of a

community of wonderful people and to follow the footsteps of the great leaders beforehim. The first three chiefs saw Isle de Jean Charles grow from nothing to a beautifulcommunity. Now as chief, Albert is watching the community that was so beautiful whenhe was growing up wash away, because of salt-water intrusion.

What he likes most about his bio has to do with him and his dad. His dad served inthe Army during WWI and he served during Viet Nam. He likes to tell people thathe entered the Army 50 years to the day after his dad was discharged. His dad wasdischarged February 11, 1919, and he entered February 11, 1969.

Albert is also Ambassador for the Native American of the Louisiana Gulf Coast since2009.

Tim Osborn

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)Tim Osborn is the manager for the Eastern Gulf, NOAAs Office of Coast Survey. He held previouspositions with NOAA National Marine Fisheries, NOAA Headquarters. Prior to joining NOAA,Osborn gave 4 years of Service as a Staffer in the U.S. Senate working on Natural Resources,Energy and Appropriations Issues.

Osborn is a graduate of Louisiana State University, with a Masters in Marine Sciences and Mastersin Public Administration. He earned an Undergraduate Degree at Florida State University.


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Kristina J. PetersonCenter for Hazards Assessment, Response & Technology (CHART);

BRW Board of AdvisorsKristina J. Peterson acts as a research assistant for the Center for Hazards Assessment,Response & Technology, in conjunction with completing a doctorate in Urban and RegionalPlanning at the University of New Orleans. She is also a pastor at the Bayou Blue PresbyterianChurch in Louisiana and a member of the international steering committee for the Gender andDisaster Network.

Ms. Peterson holds a BA in Ethnic Studies, an MDiv in History and Ethnic studies, and anSTM in Ethics. She has previously acted as executive director of the Interfaith Consortium,

before becoming an interim associate with Synod Executive for Racial and Community Justicefor the Synod of the Trinity PC. Preceding her involvement with CHART-UNO, she servedas a community disaster consultant with the Presbyterian Church. She also helped FEMAincorporate the non-profit and religious sector into their development of Project Impact(PI). She has taught classes on vulnerability reduction for marginalized communities atFEMAs Emergency Management Institutes Family and Community Protection program. Forthe past five years, Peterson has worked intimately with traditional and indigenous coastalcommunities in Louisiana.

Rosina PhilippeGrand Bayou Community

Rosina Philippe is a lifetime resident of coastal Louisiana and an advocate for preservation oftraditional cultural and heritage practices and is a grassroots activist. The focus of her work ison partnering with community leaders, along with faith-based and non-profit organizations tomaintain the sustainability of rural communities and traditional family fishers. She is a guest

lecturer on recognizing accountability and identifying contributing factors to issues such asfair trade marketing, racial injustice, economic instability, and coastal restoration/preservation.She has given talks in New York and California, and has made presentations for the Universityof South Carolina, Florida International University, University of New Orleans, and theUniversity of Colorado. Rosina Philippe is the recipient of the 2009 LA Coastal Coalition

Award: Coastal Stewardship Award.

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Steve PicouNOLA Vibe Consulting; BRW Board of Advisors

Steve Picou is a partner at NOLA Vibe Consulting, a New Orleans-based sustainabilityconsultancy focused on integrated resource management and systems. He co-chairs theHorizon Initiative Water Committee, an interdisciplinary group of diverse professionalsworking to promote integrated water management principles and economic development.Steve recently served on the Citizens Sewerage & Water Board Task Force advising MayorLandrieus restructuring efforts. He is also a program manager for the Greater New OrleansFoundation/Idea Village Water Challenge business development competition. Steve workedwith the LSU AgCenter as a Sustainable Housing Agent, and served 12 years as the AssistantDirector of the Louisiana Music Commission. He is a Puentes Public Leaders Fellow, and a

Fellow of the Loyola Institute for Environmental Communications and of the Loyola Instituteof Politics.

Scott PorterLouisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON)

Scott Porter is a staff scientist at LUMCON(Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium) and hasover 21 years experience as an investigative biologist with an environmental survey company EcoLogic Environmental. He began as an oil field consultant whose zone of study includesthe coastal Gulf States with a concentration in Louisianas estuaries and petroleum platforms.Mr. Porter holds a degree in Marine Biology. He has discovered new species on the platformthat have yet to be documented in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean. Mr. Porter is one of

the best field biologists in the Gulf of Mexico.

Christopher PulaskiTerrebonne Parish

Chris Pulaski is the Senior Planner and Zoning Administrator for Terrebonne Parish, butbecame involved in the issues facing South Louisianas coast while working for the NationalWildlife Federations Mississippi River Delta Restoration campaign. Mr. Pulaski has practicedlandscape architecture worldwide for nearly 20 years and has been involved in projectsranging from community planning to beach and island resort design. Terrebonne Parish has

recently adopted a new master plan and Chris is working to implement many of its strategiesincluding coastal community resiliency measures. He is a graduate of Louisiana StateUniversitys highly acclaimed landscape architecture program (96), and now lives in Houmawith his wife Melissa and their three boys. His favorite movies are the original Star Wars,Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski.


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Derk van ReeDeltares, the Netherlands

Derk van Ree is senior specialist currently with the Department of Scenario and Policy Analysisfrom Deltares, The Netherlands. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Physical Geography anda Masters Degree in Geohydrology from the Free Reformed University in Amsterdam (TheNetherlands). He is senior specialist in the environmental field related to soil and groundwaterissues including environmental impact assessment and sustainable development of thesubsurface. He is actively involved in a number of European networks and research projects inthe 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 currentlybeing looked at as a potential technology to prevent internal erosion at critical locations in flooddefences.

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 States performcooperative research in the field of flood risk management. He also is member of the localorganizing committee for the international FLOODrisk2012-conference in Rotterdam (NL) that

will be held from November 20-22th 2012.

Timolynn SamsNeighborhoods Partnership Network; BRW Board of Advisors

Timolynn is a New Orleans native, and a graduate of the Southern University at New Orleans.Thirteen years of work with nonprofits led to Timolynns appointment as Executive Director ofNeighborhoods Partnership Network in July 2007.

Timolynn has increased alliances and collaborations between New Orleans neighborhoodsand civic processes by serving as a member of the board of directors for numerous civic andsocial organizations throughout the city including Urban League of Greater New Orleans

Young Professionals, NOLA Women for Change, Orleans Public Educations Network (OPEN),Creative Alliance New Orleans (CANO) and Engage NOLA. Timolynn has been recognized forher outstanding service in civic processes by two New Orleans mayors. Former Mayor Naginacknowledged the intense community engagement work of Timolynn during the citys 30-yearmaster planning process. During the 2010 mayoral election she served on then Mayor-ElectMitch Landrieus Transition Team as the co-chair of the Social Innovation Taskforce.

Timolynns passion for the city has been featured in local, national and international news. Shehas been recognized as Utne Readers 50 People Changing the World She is a 2010 fellowfor the Louisiana Effective Leadership Program, a Young Leadership Council 2010 Role Modelrecipient, and 2012 Neighborhood Development Foundation leadership recipient.

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Cynthia M. SarthouGulf Restoration Network (GRN); BRW Board of Advisors

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 touniting 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 lifeissues in the Northwest.

Melanie SaucierCoastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA)

Melanie Saucier is a Coastal Resources Scientist and Certified Floodplain Manager with theLouisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. Melanie currently coordinates theCoastal Community Resiliency Program and stakeholder engagement of CPRAs Framework

Development Team and multiple focus groups. She was a crucial member of the 2012 CoastalMaster Plan Team serving as state lead for the Cultural Heritage Team and member of theAdaptive Management, Socio-Economic, Nonstructural, and Outreach and EngagementTeams. Prior to her current position, she served as a Planning Research Assistant working onthe Ocean Resources Management Plan for the State of Hawaii Coastal Zone ManagementProgram and as a Research Assistant developing the Hawaii Sea Grant Center for SustainableCoastal Tourism. Melanie holds a bachelors degree in Travel Industry Management and aMasters Degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Management from the University ofHawaii at Manoa.


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Pat SkinnerLSU AgCenter

Pat Skinner is a Disaster Recovery and Mitigation Specialist with the LSU AgCenterCooperative Extension. She began working with Extension during an HMGP-funded AmiteRiver Basin project to demonstrate elevation of homes with their slabs, and continuesto develop disaster preparedness, recovery and mitigation educational materials. Sheadvocates better risk education for people who live and work in levee-protected areasand areas that will see increased hazards through climate change and sea level rise. Sheauthored the Levees article for PERIs 2006 Yearbook.

Pat is a member of the Louisiana Floodplain Management Association, co-chaired theASFPM Floodproofing and Retrofitting Committee for 15 years, and is past chair andcurrent web manager for the Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN). Hereducational programs are delivered primarily through interagency networking, theLouisiana House Resource Center on campus, and through a series of LSU AgCenterwebsites, including the Rebuilding section of LSUAgCenter.com/Home, which doubledas The Road Homes rebuilding information resource for Katrina/Rita recovery. Her mostrecent developments are in the interactive mapping for flood and wind hazards as thoseaffect home construction. These sites can be found at www.lsuagcenter.com/floodmaps andmaps.lsuagcenter.com.

Pats BS and MS degrees are in Biochemistry and Zoology (Genetics), respectively, bothconferred by Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

Lieutenant Colonel Jerry SneedUSMC, (Ret); City of New Orleans; BRW Board of Advisors

Lieutenant Colonel Sneed officially retired from the United States Marine Corps on

September 1, 2005, (only a few days after Hurricane Katrina) after serving a total of 32years of military service in both the enlisted and officer ranks. His last major assignmentprior to retirement was January to October 2004, with the 3d Civil Affairs Group in AlAnbar Province, Iraq. At the time, Lieutenant Colonel Sneed had no idea that this tourwould be preparing him for his future civilian employment with the City of New Orleans.

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans, Lieutenant ColonelSneed contacted the Homeland Security Director for the City of New Orleans andvolunteered his services and was given the assignment of developing and conducting theLook and Leave program for the Lower 9th Wardthe most devastated portion of the

city. After 2 months of volunteer work for the city of New Orleans, Lieutenant ColonelSneed was brought on payroll in the city of New Orleans Office of Homeland Security as aplanner and helped develop the City Assisted Evacuation Plan (CAEP) with the objective ofevacuating 30,000 citizens that needed the most assistance in evacuating the city.

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On October 2, 2006, Lieutenant Colonel Sneed became the Director, Office of EmergencyPreparedness for the City of New Orleans. On July 1, 2008, the Mayor directed a re-organization within city hall and appointed Lieutenant Colonel Sneed as the new Director,

Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. On May 2, 2010, under MayorLandrieus administration, Lieutenant Colonel Sneed was appointed as the Deputy Mayor ofPublic Safety.

Nick SpeyrerThe Water Institute of the Gulf

Nick Speyrer has extensive expertise with communications and coordinating multi-stakeholder

participation in policy-making processes. His experience includes a number of coastal relatedprojects over the years.

Speyrer joined The Water Institute of the Gulf after serving as an advisor in the development ofLouisianas 2012 Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast. He led and managed alloutreach, public relations, and community awareness efforts in the plans development. He alsocoordinated the decision-making processes for diverse groups of participants to identify specificissues and challenges. Previously, Speyrer served as senior consultant with SSA Consultants, anorganizational development and management consulting firm in Baton Rouge, La., and spentfour years as a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Atlanta.

A summa cum laude graduate of Louisiana State University, he earned a bachelors degreein finance. He is also an alumnus of Leadership LSU, a program that prepares students forleadership roles in their professional and residential communities.

Robert TannenArtist; Urban Planner

Robert has been engaged in regional and environmental planning, urban design and artfor more than a half century. He studied and taught at Pratt Institute, was a foundingfaculty member of Franconia College, and was an urban design platform instructor atthe Tulane School of Architecture. He has been associated with local and internationalresearch, planning, architecture, and engineering firms for much of his professional career.He currently is a consultant to the water group of AECOM, and adjunct staff for the RANDGulf States Policy Institute. He has lived and worked on the Gulf Coast since leadingthe Hurricane Camille Emergency and Redevelopment plan for the State of Mississippiin 1969. He has worked with architect, Frank Gehry on several projects including plans

for US military facilities in the Canal Zone returned to the Republic of Panama, and hasbeen engaged in conservation projects for the Lower Mississippi River and in the State ofMississippi.


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Rebecca TempletonBayou Grace

Rebecca Templeton is the Executive Director of Bayou Grace Community Services, a locally-based nonprofit in lower Terrebonne Parish that annually mobilizes over 1000 local and nationalprogram participants in restorative volunteer projects, advocacy, and education on Louisianasmost critical issues: the effects of unnatural land loss and the critical need for holistic restorationand protection. Prior to her current position with Bayou Grace, she worked as the organizationsOutreach Coordinator and spearheaded its Building Community Resilience through CommunityDinners project, a project that continues to connect local community members with an opportunityto address coastal restoration decision makers.

Growing up in the small bayou community of Chauvin has helped to connect Templeton toBayou Graces target communities. Under Rebeccas leadership, Bayou Grace was named theConservation Organization of the year for 2012 by the 49th annual Governors ConservationAchievement Recognition Program conducted by the Louisiana Wildlife Federation.

Ron ThibodeauxJournalist; Author

Ron Thibodeaux has been described as a noted chronicler of Cajun country. In travelsthroughout his native South Louisiana during 30+ years as a journalist, he has written about

Cajun culture in all its aspects, from killer hurricanes to mens supper clubs, from dancehallfiddlers to alligator wranglers, from the uncertain future of Louisianas native French languageto the challenges of keeping the Cajun experience authentic while marketing it to tourists.He has also ventured to the Acadian homeland of Nova Scotia to explore the modern-daysimilarities and distinctions between Louisianas gregarious Cajun people and their morereserved Acadian cousins north of the border.

A staffer at the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Ron is an associate editor ofLouisiana Cultural Vistas magazine and KnowLA.org, the digital encyclopedia of Louisianahistory and culture. His book, Hell or High Water: How Cajun Fortitude Withstood HurricanesRita and Ike, was published last year by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press. He is anative of Houma, a graduate of Louisiana State University, and resident of Covington.

Elizabeth Boo ThomasCenter for Planning Excellence (CPEX); BRW Board of Advisors

Well versed in local community planning activities, Thomas has led neighborhoodredevelopment efforts in Baton Rouge since obtaining her Masters degree in Landscape

Architecture from LSU. As the former head of Plan Baton Rouge and the Mid-CityRedevelopment Alliance, Thomas has been an advocate for smart growth in Louisianathroughout her career. After Katrina, she led CPEX in facilitating the Louisiana Speaksrecovery process, the largest planning effort ever undertaken in Louisiana. The processresulted in the Louisiana Speaks Regional Plan, a comprehensive plan created through theparticipation of over 27,000 South Louisiana residents.

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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 Olmsted

Medal 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.

Jeff ThomasThomas Strategies, LLC

Jeffrey Thomas is principal of Thomas Strategies, LLC, a strategic planning firm that facilitatespublic-private financing, policy, and partnership solutions to spur resilient community and economic

development. Jeffrey has over fifteen years of legal, public administration, and communitydevelopment experience, including public- and private-sector projects aimed at increasingcommunity investment in environmental quality, sustainable public infrastructure, neighborhood-scale economic revitalization, renewable energy solutions, and public access and participation ingovernmental decision-making.

Jeffrey recently coordinated the New Orleans Citizen Sewer, Water & Drainage System ReformTask Force, which was created at the behest of Mayor Landrieu to recommend governance,operational, and infrastructure investment changes to improve the Citys aging water system.Among other recommendations, the Task Force detailed existing and planned public policy, landuse controls, and infrastructure projects through which local government can integrate greaterwater retention and absorption into the citys stormwater management system.

Jamelyn TrucksFederal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Jamelyn Austin Trucks is a Mitigation Specialist for the Federal Emergency Management

Agency. Representing FEMA in Louisiana since 2008, she has worked closely with theGovernors Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness (GOHSEP) and Parishes statewideproviding guidance and feedback on Hazard Mitigation Grant Applications. She is currentlyresponsible for the implementation and oversight of project development for the HazardMitigation Grant Program re-calculation for Katrina totaling $390 million dollars. Mostrecently, she has worked with GOHSEP and the City of New Orleans Grants Department asthe FEMA lead for developing Hazard Mitigation Projects for New Orleans East Hospital andthe Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans.

She is a Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM), an active member of the Association of StateFloodplain Managers (ASFPM), and the Natural Hazard Mitigation Associations InternationalActivities Committee. She received her BBA from the University of Georgia in Marketing.


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Robert A. TurnerSoutheast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East

Robert A. Turner, Jr. is a Registered Professional Civil Engineer with thirty years experiencein the field of engineering. He is a graduate of Louisiana Tech University and a member ofthe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the American Concrete Institute. In 2007Turner was appointed as the Regional Director of the Southeast Louisiana Flood ProtectionAuthority-East, charged with the oversight of flood protection for all or part of five parishessurrounding Lake Pontchartrain and the governance of the Orleans, East Jefferson and LakeBorgne Basin Levee Districts.

Turner has an extensive background in flood protection and public works, including servingas the Executive Director of the Lake Borgne Basin Levee District from 2001 until his currentappointment as SLFPAE Regional Director. He was selected to serve as the Louisiana Staterepresentative for the National Committee on Levee Safety. Turner is also working with theDutch Government on a levee information system and just returned from the Netherlandsregarding that project.

Rob Verchick

Loyola UniversityRob Verchick holds the Gauthier-St. Martin Chair in Environmental Law at Loyola UniversityNew Orleans. A graduate of Stanford University and of Harvard Law School, he is a nationallyrecognized expert in environmental law, climate change adaptation, and in the developingfield of disaster law and policy. From 2009 through 2010 he took leave from Loyola andserved in the Obama administration as Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy at the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency. He helped develop climate adaptation policy for the EPAand served on President Obamas Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force.

Verchick has represented environmental interests in friend-of-the-court briefs in importantcases before the U.S. Supreme Court and the federal appellate courts. He is a MemberScholar (on leave) and former board member of the Center for Progressive Reform, a policyinstitute dedicated to making a positive case for health, safety, and environmental protection.

Verchick has taught as a visiting professor at Peking University, Aarhus University (Denmark),Lewis & Clark College, and Seattle University and has received teaching awards at LoyolaUniversity, University of Missouri--Kansas City, Seattle University, and Harvard University.He has lectured on environmental topics in Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Israel, China, andthroughout the United States. Verchick is author or co-author of three books, including FacingCatastrophe: Environmental Action for a Post-Katrina World (Cambridge, Mass.: HarvardUniversity Press 2010).


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David WaggonnerWaggonner & Ball Architects; BRW Board of Advisors

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 of multipleaward-winning architectural projects in education, ecclesiastical, office, hotel, retail, renovationand restoration categories.

Jessica WattsCDM Smith; BRW Board of Advisors

Jessica L. Watts is a water resources engineer experienced in natural water quality, waterresources engineering, and civil engineering. Her most recent work has been focused onstormwater management modeling and design for the New Orleans area. Some of her localprojects include the Pontilly Stormwater Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP), theComprehensive, Sustainable Integrated Water Management Strategy for St. Bernard Parishand the east banks of Orleans and Jefferson Parishes (WMS), the New Orleans DrainageMaster Plan, Task Force Leader, Drainage, New Orleans Infrastructure Assessment, WestBank Surface Drainage Improvement Program, Jefferson Parish, and the Long Term HazardMitigation Project, Jefferson Parish.

Ms. Watts received her B.S. in Civil Engineering from Christian Brothers University, Memphisand her M.S. in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering from the University of Texas,Austin, where she focused on Water Resources and GIS. In 2009 Ms. Watts was accorded thehonor of being certified as a Diplomate, Water Resources Engineer by the American Academyof Water Resources Engineers. She also currently serves as Section Representative for theGreater New Orleans section of the Society of Women Engineers.


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Patty WhitneyBayou Interfaith Shared Community Organizing (BISCO);

BRW Board of AdvisorsPatty 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 trusted

voice 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.

Jeff WilliamsCenter for Climate and Energy Solutions, Entergy Corporation

Jeff Williams is the Director of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions at Entergy Corporation.In that capacity he plays an important role in helping Entergy manage carbon risk and helpingbusiness units develop strategies to prosper in a carbon constrained economy and execute futuresustainable growth opportunities. Mr. Williams has been a strong advocate for taking proactive,responsible action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and has stressed the importance ofcreating innovative, efficient market mechanisms for achieving cost-effective greenhouse gasreductions.

Jeana C. WiserNational Trust for Historic Preservation, BRW Steering Committee

Jeana C. Wiser is a BRW Steering Committee member and has been involved with the BRW since2011. She recently graduated from the University of Washingtons College of the Built Environmentwith a Master of Urban Planning degree (2011). While attending UW, Jeana was the lead ResearchAssistant for the Center for Hazard Mitigation Planning and Research. As lead Research Assistant,Jeana was in charge of a Washington coast tsunami vertical evacuation joint pilot project with theState of Washington Emergency Management Division.

Currently, Jeana is the National Trust for Historic Preservations Preservation Green Lab(PGL) Project Coordinator. Jeana works on historic preservation and energy efficiency policydevelopment and researches strategies to increase building reuse and innovative energy retrofitprograms for older, smaller, existing buildings.

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Maura WoodNational Wildlife Federation (NWF); BRW Board of Advisors

Maura Wood works on National Wildlife Federations Mississippi River Delta Restoration Campaign.She holds a BS from the University of Wisconsin and an MS in Oceanography and Coastal Sciencefrom Louisiana State University. After the BP Oil Spill, the National Audubon Society honored heras a Woman of the Gulf.

Jerome ZeringueCoastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA)

Jerome Zeringue currently serves as the Executive Director of the Louisianas Coastal Protection

and Restoration Authority (CPRA). The CPRAs mandate is to develop, implement, and enforcea comprehensive coastal protection and restoration master plan. The CPRA is also directedto implement the integration of hurricane protection, storm damage reduction, flood control,infrastructure, and coastal protection and restoration efforts in accordance with the master planand annual plans.

After serving as the Executive Director of the Terrebonne Levee and Conservation District forover a decade, Zeringue joined the Governors Office of Coastal Activities in May 2008 to serve asDirector of Policy and Programs. Soon thereafter, Zeringue assumed the role of Deputy ExecutiveDirector of the CPRA and as such, was responsible for organizing, motivating and leading theintegration of more than 150 staff that transferred from the Department of Natural Resources, theDepartment of Transportation and Development, and the Governors Office of Coastal Activitiesto form the implementation office for the CPRA. This was a crowning achievement as it markedthe first time in Louisianas history that a single state entity was responsible for integrating andimplementing coastal restoration and hurricane protection projects. Zeringue also serves as themanagement Chair of the Gulf of Mexico Alliance; taking an active lead on behalf of GovernorBobby Jindal.

A native of Thibodaux, Zeringue holds a bachelors degree in Zoology and a masters degree in

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Steering Committee:

Board of Advisors:

Fiscal Sponsor:

Special Thanks:

Very Special Thanks:

Miriam BelblidiaElizabeth EnglishGrasshopper MendozaAlessandra JerollemanJeana Wiser

Brad CaseCraig ColtenMark DavisByron EncaladeBrian JacksonShirley Laska

Steve MathiesChief Albert NaquinKristina PetersonSteve PicouTimolynn SamsCynthia SarthouLt. Col. Jerry SneedBoo ThomasDavid Waggonner

Jessica WattsPatty WhitneyMaura WoodJerome Zeringue

Ezra BoydMonica Teets FarrisJoseph FrankGulf Resoration NetworkJonathan HendersonArthur Johnson

KC KingLake Pontchartrain Basin FoundationShirley LaskaTaylor MarshallColleen MorganSteve PicouPeggy PocheJulia StrasserJeff Thomas

Jessica Watts

Zak Fish

Maura Wood

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MITIGATION SPONSORSNational Wildlife Federation

Environmental Defense Fund

Audubon Society

DewberryThe Water Institute of the Gulf

CDM SmithThe Idea Village

Documents

BRW IV Program: March 2013