November 5-8, 2007
Lafayette, Louisiana
Welcome to the website of the 10th Annual Southern and Caribbean Coastal Management Regional Meeting. We have posted all of the meeting materials and presentations on this website for your reference. Thank you to everyone who made this meeting a success and to everyone who participated!
Note that some of these PowerPoint presentations are large files and may take a while to load! If you have trouble opening them directly, click "Save" and save to your computer and then open up the file in PowerPoint.
CZMA Performance Measures System Training
State Updates (Note: not every state used PowerPoint for their presentation, so this list is not comprehensive)
- Jim Gregson, North Carolina
- Ernesto Diaz, Puerto Rico
- Carl Ferraro, Alabama
Public Access
- Bill Sargent, BlueWays Boating Characterization: Planning for Sustained Recreational Use of Florida Waterways
- Steve Underwood, Combining local, state, and federal efforts for Waterfront Access in NC
- Eddie Fisher, A Line in the Sand: Balancing The Texas Open Beaches Act and Coastal Development
Managing Local Growth
- Roberta Swann, Conserving Dauphin Island: A Strategic Vision for the Future
- Dr. Jim Gibeaut, Geohazards Mapping: A Tool for Managing Growth
- Jim Frederick, Regional Planning for Georgia's Coast
NOAA Updates
- Andrea Geiger, Legislative Atlas
- Ralph Cantral, Envisioning the Future of Coastal Management
Concurrent Regional Breakouts
South-Atlantic & Caribbean Regional Breakout
- Jeff Payne, NOAA Regional Collaboration
- Christine Laporte, South Atlantic Regional Research Project
Gulf of Mexico Regional Breakout
- Buck Sutter, NOAA Regional Collaboration
- Steve Sempier, Gulf of Mexico Regional Research Plan
Valuation of Wetlands
- Dr. Ray Brassieur, Uncounted Resources of the Louisiana Coast
- Dr. Hassan Shahid Mashriqui, Protective Role of Coastal Wetlands during Hurricanes in Southern Louisiana
- Dr. Sam Brody, Linking Wetland Alteration to Coastal Flooding: predictors, consequences, and policy implications
Hazards Preparedness in the Context of Recovery
- Brian Fortson, Louisiana’s Katrina Experience
- Tina Shumate, Mississippi’s Katrina Experience
- Hank Erikson, Florida Post Disaster Redevelopment Planning and Florida Post Disaster Redevelopment Planning Guidelines
- Curtis Joyner, Hurricane Hugo: The Road to Recovery
Climate Change
- Braxton Davis, The role of coastal zone management programs in adaptation to climate change
- Carol Auer, Ecological Effects of Sea Level Rise in North Carolina: Can it work for your state?
- Ernesto Diaz, Adapting to current and potential impacts of Climate Change in Puerto Rico
- Dr. Greg Zielinski, Coastal Climate Extension and What it Means to Coastal Managers
If you have any questions about the meeting, please contact Carleigh Trappe (301) 563-1165
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