Seminars

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
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)