Mitigating Storm Surge with Vegetation Technical Transfer

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Following the Hurricane season of 2005, intense interest has been focused on the role of coastal wetlands in mitigating storm surge. The focus of this one-day symposium/workshop was to examine the latest information on the physics of water movement through wetland vegetation and to identify approaches for quantifying frictional resistance and wave dampening effects in different coastal wetland habitats.

Applications of this information to storm surge mitigation and freshwater diversions was be presented and discussed.

Invited Speakers:
Dr. Heidi Nepf, Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, MIT
Dr. Robert Kadlec, Emeritus Professor, University of Michigan

Agenda: Mitigating Storm Surge with Vegetation Symposium Agenda [PDF].

Location: Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center Hotel, April 13, 2007, 8:00 AM-3:00 PM

Technical Transfer from Symposium: Download presentation files below.

• Keynote Speaker, Heidi Nepf, MIT
  Drag Associated with Emergent and Submerged Vegetation [PDF] 22MB
  
  
• Keynote Speaker, Robert Kadlec, University of Michigan
  Overland Flow in Treatment Wetlands



• Ty Wamsley, USACE, ERDC
  Modeling Storm Surge Propagation over Vegetated Landscape Features



• Jim Chen, LSU
  Wave Dampening by Vegetation



• Bob Jacobsen, URS,
  Incorporating friction resistance into diversion modeling [PPT] 104MB



• Hassan Mashriqui, LSU
  Incorporating vegetation effects into ADCIRC surge modeling



• Joe Suhayda, LSU
  Integrating science into Louisiana's Coastal [PPT] 4MB
  

Sponsor: Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute
Co-Sponsors: LSU Civil & Environmental Engineering, URS, LSU Hurricane Center & Center for the Study of Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes
	Civil & Environmental Engineering