The RCSE Departmental seminar series will resume this Spring 2024 semester. Seminars will take place on Thursdays from 12:00 PM -1:30 PM in Boggs 600.
All seminars will be held in person - subject to change at the University's discretion. For those unable to attend in person due to the pandemic, a zoom link to watch remotely will be made available. For zoom link information please contact msmith77@tulane.edu.
DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE OF PRESENTATION |
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Week 1 - January 25th | Jeff Melby, ERDC | Coastal Hazards System and StormSim: A New Paradigm in Coastal Design and Risk Assessment |
Week 2 - February 1st | Qiang Sun, Tulane RCSE | Causes of Accelerated High-Tide Flooding in the U.S. since 1950 |
Week 3 - February 8th | NO SEMINAR (MARDI GRAS) | |
Week 4 - February 15th | Cody Johnson, Mott Mac | Tropical Cyclone Impacts to a Beach and Dune Restoration with Backbarrier Marsh Creation |
Week 5 - February 22nd | Gabriel Katul, Duke University | Back to Aristotle: Bringing Hydraulics into Plants |
Week 6 - February 29th | Julius Oelsmann, TU Munich | Regional Variations in Relative Sea Level Changes Influenced by Non-linear Vertical Land Motion |
Week 7 - March 7th | Elizabeth Jarrell, Louisiana CPRA | Mid Barataria Sediment Diversion Monitoring Plans |
Week 8 - March 14th | Brian Richter, Former Global Freshwater Lead, The Nature Conservancy | Chasing Water in a Rapidly Changing World |
Week 9 - March 21st | Gabriele Villarini, Princeton University | Projecting Flooding Across the United States: Climate Change as a Risk Multiplier |
Week 10 | NO SEMINAR (SPRING BREAK) | |
Week 11 - April 4th | Participation in Lower Mississippi River Science Symposium | |
Week 12 - April 11th | Marisa Mazari, Laboratorio Investigadora Titular C; Laboratorio Nacional de Ciencias de la Sostenibilidad (LANCIS); Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | TBD |
Week 13 - April 18th | Carol Wilson, LSU | Lessons Learned from Co-production and Studying the Elevation Dynamics in the Vulnerable Ganges-Brahmaputra Mega-delta |
Week 14 - April 25th | Robert Miller, University of Louisiana-Lafayette | TBD |
Week 15 | NO SEMINAR (STUDY PERIOD) |