BUILDING

RESILIENCE
WORKSHOP III
Implementing Innovative, Sustainable Strategies
for Rebuilding a Resilient South Louisiana
March 15-17, 2012 Naval Support Activity Eastbank Facility
4400 Dauphine St.
New Orleans, Louisiana
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WELCOME
Welcome to the Building Resilience Workshop III
The challenge of living with water is one shared by deltaic communities
around the world. Nowhere is this more apparent than in post-Katrina New
Orleans and the Gulf Coast region, where people live with a daily awareness
of the threat, and opportunities, of water. The series of Building Resilience
Workshops I, II and III have been organized with the goals of identifying
and fostering the implementation of innovative and sustainable strategies
to reduce New Orleans and south Louisianas vulnerability to potentially
catastrophic hazards, both natural and man-made, particularly those that
result in severe ooding.
The 2010 Building Resilience Workshop I addressed a broad range of
water- and ood-related issues, with discussions centered on sustainable
approaches to rebuilding a culture of resilience in south Louisiana, spurred
by impending climate change. Our international participants provided
us with a wealth of new ideas from the Netherlands, Germany, Mexico
and Canada. The BRW II in 2011 focused on the role that innovative,
sustainable infrastructure can play in mitigating catastrophic disaster, both
by reducing the risk of harmful consequences from extreme events and by
facilitating rapid post-event recovery. The BRW II brought experts from the
Netherlands, the UK, France, Belgium, Germany and Australia to share their
research on innovative disaster mitigation approaches and experiences with
successful transition methodologies for facilitating their implementation.
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The Building Resilience Workshop III again brings together scientists,
environmentalists, architects, engineers, city ofcials, planners,
entrepreneurs, grass-roots community organizers, academic researchers,
and representatives of federal agencies and native populations. We are
joined this year by a dozen members of the pan-European research project
FloodProBE, which focuses its efforts on developing technologies, methods
and tools for urban ood risk assessment and reduction. Two of the
leaders of the Dutch Room for the River program are participating as well.
One entire day of discussions will be devoted to the Louisiana Draft 2012
Coastal Master Plan and its implications for coastal Louisiana communities.
We will be learning about innovative ood risk reduction strategies from
around the world, discussing potential solutions compatible with our
unique local ways of life, and creating global networks that will help us face
the challenges ahead and support the changes we must make to rebuild a
culture of sustainability and resilience in the Louisiana Gulf Coast region.
Thank you for your participation and engagement in this critical discussion
about creating a more promising and resilient future for our south
Louisiana communities.
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ON-SITE REGISTRATION
MASTER PLAN I
Overview of the Master Plan
Marco Cocito-Monoc &
Chris Zevenbergen, Moderators
Karim Belhadjali
[ COFFEE BREAK ]
MASTER PLAN II
Public Voices / Parish Leaders
John Lopez, Moderator
Charlotte Randolph
P. J. Hahn
Charles Allen

[ COFFEE BREAK ]
KEYNOTE COMMENTS
Pieter Bloemen
Delta Management: Some Reections
MASTER PLAN III
Popular Voices / Parish Residents
Shirley Laska, Moderator
Jonathan Foret
Byron Encalade
[ LUNCH IS SERVED ]
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
FRIDAY 16 MARCH 2012
8:30 - 9:00 AM
9:00 - 10:00 AM
10:00 - 10:15 AM
10:15 - 11:30 AM
11:30 - 11:45 AM
11:45 - 12:00 PM
12:00 - 1:15 PM
1:15 - 1:30 PM
Steven Peyronnin
John Ettinger
Liesbeth van Riet Paap
Carolyn Woosley
Sebastiaan van Herk
Kim Anema
Chief Albert Naquin
Jeroen Rijke
John Jacobs
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BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Focused Discussions on Specic
Topics Related to the Master Plan
Maria Brodine
Brad Case
Mark Davis
Monica Farris
Beth Galante
Jonathan Henderson
[ BREAK ]
KEYNOTE COMMENTS
Liesbeth van Riet Paap
The Dutch Room for the River Program
MASTER PLAN IV
Large-Scale Systems and
Land-Use Planning
Cynthia Sarthou, Moderator
Camille Manning-Broome
Timothy Doody
David Muth
[ COFFEE BREAK ]
KEYNOTE COMMENTS
Sebastiaan van Herk
From Masterplan to Implementation:
Two Dutch Examples
MASTER PLAN V
Directed Wrap-Up
Doug Meffert, Moderator
Breakout Discussion Summaries
RECEPTION
1:30 - 2:20 PM
2:20 - 2:30 PM
2:30 - 2:45 PM
2:45 - 4:00 PM
4:00 - 4:15 PM
4:15 - 4:30 PM
4:30 - 5:30 PM
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Shirley Laska
Boo Thomas
David Waggonner
Ann Yoachim
Keven Lovetro
Derk van Ree
Pieter Bloemen
Pieter Bloemen
Chris Zevenbergen
Mark Davis
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ON-SITE REGISTRATION
INFRASTRUCTURE I
Safe Haven vs Evacuation
Belinda Little-Wood, Moderator
Craig Colten
Col Terry Ebbert
John Kiefer
[ COFFEE BREAK ]
INFRASTRUCTURE II
Creating Community Shelters
John Williams, Moderator
Pat Santos
Belinda Little-Wood
[ COFFEE BREAK ]
KEYNOTE COMMENTS
Jeroen Rijke
Multi-level Governance in
Water Management
INFRASTRUCTURE III
Non-Structural Mitigation vs
Community Relocation
Brad Case, Moderator
Tom Smith
Rutger de Graaf
Rod Scott
[ LUNCH IS SERVED ]
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
SATURDAY 17 MARCH 2012
8:30 - 9:00 AM
9:00 - 10:00 AM
10:00 - 10:15 AM
10:15 - 11:30 AM
11:30 - 11:45 AM
11:45 - 12:00 PM
12:00 - 1:15 PM
1:15 - 1:30 PM
Nico van Os
Damien Serre
Jason Yu
Chief Albert Naquin
Allison Anderson
Edwin Blom
John Jacobs
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BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Focused Discussions on Specic
Topics Related to Infrastructure and Sheltering
Ezra Boyd
Brad Case
Yarrow Etheredge
KC King
Grasshopper Mendoza
[ BREAK ]
KEYNOTE COMMENTS
Derk van Ree
FloodProBE: Technologies for Improved
Safety of the Built Environment in Relation to Flood Events
INFRASTRUCTURE IV
Strategic Transportation Facilities and
Post-Event Evacuations
Jerry Sneed, Moderator
Kim Anema
Richard Swan
Peter Minnema
[ COFFEE BREAK ]
KEYNOTE COMMENTS
Chris Zevenbergen
Cost Effectiveness of Flood Resilient
Technologies: Some Considerations
INFRASTRUCTURE V
Directed Wrap-Up
Craig Colten, Moderator
Breakout Discussion Summaries

CLOSING RECEPTION
1:30 - 2:20 PM
2:20 - 2:30 PM
2:30 - 2:45 PM
2:45 - 4:00 PM
4:00 - 4:15 PM
4:15 - 4:30 PM
4:30 - 5:30 PM
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Steve Picou
Rod Scott
Boo Thomas
Prisca Weems
John Williams
Nico van Os
Damien Serre
Patty Whitney
Bob Miller
Chris Zevenbergen
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BIOGRAPHIES
Charles E. Allen III
Coastal and Environmental Affairs, City of New Orleans
Charles E. Allen is director of the New Orleans Ofce of Coastal and Environmental Affairs
and serves as advisor to the Mayor on such affairs. He is also Vice-Chair of the Holy Cross
Neighborhood Association and until recently was acting director of the Lower 9th Center
for Sustainable Engagement and Development. Allen serves as a board member of a project
known as REACH-NOLA, which works to improve access to quality health care for New
Orleans residents. He also serves as a board member and secretary of the New Orleans
Hospital Services District A Board. The District A Board is currently working to rebuild a
hospital for the Eastern New Orleans community. Allen is also a member of the board of
directors of the Louisiana/Haiti Sustainable Village Project. Finally, he serves on Louisiana
Governors Advisory Committee on Coastal Restoration and Protection.
Allen received his Bachelors of Science degree in Biology from Xavier University of Louisiana
and his Masters of Science in Public Health from Tulane University. Allen is a life-long resident
of New Orleans.
Allison H. Anderson AIA, LEED-AP
unabridged Architecture PLLC
Allison Anderson focuses on projects featuring design excellence and a strong community
design component as a principal at unArch, and is dedicated to creating sustainable places
through the preservation and enhancement of existing structures, communities, and habitats.
Repairing the connection between nature and the built environment demands a practice that
explores the broadest denition of sustainability. Anderson was the rst LEED-Accredited
Professional in Mississippi in 2002, and is the US Green Building Council/Mississippi, Chair of
Government and Advocacy.
Allison earned a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Texas, and a Bachelor
of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California. She has been a licensed
architect since 1991, and has taught architecture at the University of Texas, Louisiana State
University, and Tulane University. Allison leads research efforts at uA, focusing on resilience,
coastal hazards, adaptation, and defensibility. She has led the design of nine storm-hardened
shelters in Mississippi, with high performance standards to resist high winds and impact. She
is a volunteer member of the scientic Gulf of Mexico Alliance Resilience Team.
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Kim Anema
Flood Resilience Group at UNESCO-IHE, Delft, NL
Studying the different aspects of management and decision-making for complex social issues,
Kim Anema has always been intrigued by the dynamics between institutions and stakeholders.
Her interest in ood and water management arose when she encountered the (potential)
consequences of climate change in her work on emergency response and preparedness.
Anema holds a MSc. degree in Public Administration and Policy Studies. She graduated
on interactive policy making (IPM) while working for the Red Cross Society in the region of
Rotterdam and is currently starting a PhD project on social resilience. With her research,
conducted within the Flood Resilience Group in Delft, she wants to explore new (non-structural)
methods to enhance and nurture resilience of societies and contribute to existing knowledge on
policy making in this area.
Three weeks after the Queensland ooding, Kim visited Australia together with the rest of the
Flood Resilience Group. The remarkable resilience of the people in Queensland is an inspiring
case of emergency management in modern society, especially considering the key role that
social media played during and after the event. She is currently involved in the proposal of a
joint RTD program to review that element of the disaster response in Brisbane.
Kim was a participant of BRW II in 2011.
Karim Belhadjali
Program Manager, Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
Karim Belhadjali is the Program Manager for the 2012 update of the States Coastal Master
Plan for Integrated Ecosystem Restoration and Hurricane Protection. He has been engaged
with the States coastal restoration and protection program since 2000, serving as the lead
ecologist for the state on a dozen of large-scale wetland restoration projects constructed
with federal partners. Prior to his current position, he served in the US Peace Corps as
the Marine Fisheries Advisor to the government of Tuvalu, Central Pacic. He formulated
sheries policy including regulatory reform and sheries management plans, to protect and
conserve the marine resources of Tuvalu.
Karim holds a bachelors degree in Marine Biology from Long Island University and a
Masters Degree in Fisheries from Louisiana State University.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Pieter Bloemen
Delta Programme
Pieter Bloemen has been a member of the Delta Commissioners staff since 1 February 2010.
He is the initial contact for the Quality & Content area of attention. Mr Bloemen is mainly
involved with adaptive delta management (concept development and implementation) and
the development of a system for comparing the different alternative strategies that are being
developed for water safety and sweet water supply. As member of the Quartermasters team
of the Delta Programme he was responsible for the development of the basic values and
principles of the Delta Programme and for knowledge and innovation.
Before joining the Delta Programme he was Programme manager of the Dutch National
Adaptation Programme for Spatial Planning and Climate (ARK).
Edwin Blom
Dura Vermeer
Edwin Blom is a project manager at Dura Vermeer Business Development. He studied at the
Delft Technical University and has a Masters degree in Architecture. He worked several years
as an architect, working on a number of oating buildings including the Floating Pavilion
in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, before moving to Dura Vermeer. Since 2010, he has been
primarily involved in sustainable and resilient urban developments, such as smart shelters and
several oating structures.

Ezra Boyd
Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, Coastal Sustainability Program
Ezra Boyd is a hazards geographer and staff scientist with the Lake Pontchartrain Basin
Foundations Coastal Sustainability Program. He resides in New Orleans, La. He recently
earned his PhD from Louisiana State University, where his dissertation presented a
comprehensive assessment and analysis of deaths associated with Hurricane Katrina and the
catastrophic failure of the Federal ood protection system for southeast Louisiana.
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Maria Brodine
Columbia University & Groundwork New Orleans
Maria Brodine is a Ph.D. Candidate in Applied Anthropology at Columbia University Teachers
College in New York, NY. She lives and works full time in New Orleans, conducting doctoral
research on post-Katrina ood protection and coastal restoration. She is also the Program
Coordinator for Groundwork New Orleans, a nonprot specializing in addressing the
links between social justice issues and environmental health, developing neighborhood-
based water management solutions and education programs, and targeting underserved
neighborhoods.
Larry Buss
USACE, Ret.; National Nonstructural/Flood Proong Committee
Mr. Larry S. Buss has served as a senior advisor/national expert with the US Army Corps of
Engineers in the areas of ood risk management and nonstructural ood risk reduction. Buss
retired from the Corps of Engineers as Chief of Hydrologic Engineering, Omaha District. In
that position, he lead a team of 50 people with expertise in such areas as Water Control,
Water Quality, Hydraulic Structure Design, Statistical Analysis, River Ecosystem Restoration,
Flood Plain Management, Emergency Flood Fighting, Flood Control Design, Sediment/
Erosion Control, Watershed Modeling, Flood Warning Systems, Nonstructural and Structural
Flood Mitigation, and Hydrographic Surveys. Prior positions with the Corps of Engineers
included Chief, Flood Plain Management Services; Chief, Planning; Assistant Chief, Planning;
and Chief, Civil Works all within the Omaha District. He has over 39 years of experience with
the Corps of Engineers all in Water Resources.
Buss is also a past Chair of the US Army Corps of Engineers National Nonstructural/Flood
Proong Committee. This committee promotes the development, implementation, and proper
use of non-structural ood mitigation techniques including relocation/buoyant, ood proong,
ood warning/preparedness, ood plain regulation, ood insurance, etc. Buss has presented
at numerous workshops, seminars, and conferences throughout the United States on the use
nonstructural measures to reduce ood risk. He is also involved on National task force teams
dealing with levee security, levee safety, ood risk management, and implementation of
nonstructural measures.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Brad Case
Director of Mitigation for the City of New Orleans
Brad is the Acting Director of Mitigation for the City of New Orleans. Created in the
aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Hazard Mitigation Branch of the Citys
Ofce of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness is responsible for developing
and implementing mitigation policy throughout the City of New Orleans. This includes
implementation of the Citys Hazard Mitigation Plan, administration of all FEMA mitigation
programs for private property and infrastructure and advancing of the awareness of
mitigation concepts and practices for communities and businesses. The Mitigation Ofce
also represents the City throughout the state and the country to promote and achieve the
sustainability and resilience of the City.
Marco F. Cocito-Monoc , Ph.D.
Greater New Orleans Foundation
GNOFs regional initiatives are overseen by Marco Cocito-Monoc, who has been working
in this capacity since the summer of 2007. Marco has extensive experience in community
revitalization and economic development, having been executive director of Baltimores
Southeast Community Development Corporation for four years. While in Baltimore, Marco
created the largest bi-lingual, HUD-certied housing counseling program in Maryland, led
a Healthy Neighborhoods revitalization program, led a commercial corridor revitalization
initiative, and was part of a state-wide philanthropic and non-prot consortium that created
a exible renancing system for homeowners who had been victimized by sub-prime lenders
and were in danger of losing their homes.
Prior his time in Maryland, Marco was director of economic development for the City of
Covington, Louisiana. In that capacity, he championed smart growth and mixed income
housing by working to shore up housing quality and demand in various neighborhoods in
the middle and by making the revitalization of that citys historic downtown a departmental
priority (which bore fruit in the form of 90 net businesses gained therein).
Marco earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees in political science from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst and his doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge in
England, where he was also a research and teaching fellow at Magdalene College. In 2008,
he was named a Hull Fellow by the Southeastern Council of Foundations. He has spoken
extensively on issues related to community development, has published numerous articles
and has translated the works of the renowned contemporary philosopher, Luce Irigaray.
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Craig Colten
Department of Geography and Anthropology, LSU
Dr. Craig E. Colten is an academic author as well as the Carl O. Sauer Professor of Geography
at Louisiana State University. His publications concern the American South and the historical
geography of human-environment interactions. His published works include Perilous Place,
Powerful Storms, The American Environment, The Road to Love Canal, Transforming New
Orleans 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 of
the Geographical Review.
Mark S. Davis
Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy
Mark Davis joined the Tulane University Law School as a Senior Research Fellow in January
2007 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 Coastal
Louisiana where he helped shape programs and policies at the state and federal level to
improve the stewardship of the wetlands and waters of coastal Louisiana, one of the worlds
greatest 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 School
of Law in Chicago. He has lectured widely on the topic of water resource management and
stewardship and has testied numerous times before Congress on the need for a focused and
effective commitment to the viability of coastal Louisiana and other vital natural treasures.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Timothy P. Doody, CPA
Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority East
Chaffe McCall, L.L.P.
Timothy P. Doody is President of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority East and
is one of the founding Commissioners appointed on January 1, 2007. He is currently serving
as a member of the Executive Committee of the Mississippi Valley Flood Control Association
and on the Legislative Committee of the Association of Levee Boards of Louisiana.
Mr. Doody is a Certied Public Accountant with over 29 years of experience in the areas
of nance and management. He is the Executive Director of Chaffe McCall, L.L.P., New
Orleans oldest law rm, responsible for Firm operations, management, human resources and
accounting since September, 1989.
His professional experience includes Internal Auditor/Assistant Vice President of First Federal
Savings Bank of New Orleans, Controller of St. Bernard Savings & Loan Association, and
Senior Accountant of the Audit Department of Touche Ross & Company, Inc. (now Deloitte &
Touche).
Mr. Doody is a graduate of Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Among his numerous
professional and civic activities, he is a member of the American Institute of Certied
Public Accountants, Louisiana Society of Certied Public Accountants, Association of Legal
Administrators, New Orleans Chapter, Operation Merry Christmas and the Knights of
Columbus.
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Col Terry Ebbert
Ebbert and Associates
Colonel Terry Ebbert, United States Marine Corps Retired, founded Ebbert & Associates
to provide consulting, planning, training, and education in all aspects of Emergency
Preparedness, Public Safety, Disaster Management and Security Matters.
Terry is the former Director of Homeland Security for the City of New Orleans. In this role he
was responsible for the administration and leadership for all Public Safety agencies, which
included Police, Fire, Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Preparedness and Criminal
Justice organizations. He served as the Incident Commander and coordinated all local,
state and federal response to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the largest
disaster in the history of the United States.
His views on the Katrina experience have been documented in extensive federal testimony,
books, articles, television, lectures, and personal sessions with the White House and
Department of Homeland Security. His input has been taken into consideration in the
creation of national reforms for emergency planning and operations. For his service during
this disaster he received the United States Coast Guard Public Service Award, The Louisiana
Legion of Merit and the American Spirit Gold Medallion.
Colonel Ebbert completed a distinguished career in the United States Marine Corps where
he held nuclear security positions and served as Security Ofcer for the United States Pacic
Fleet. Other assignments included serving as the Military Secretary to the Commandant of
the Marine Corps and Commanding Ofcer of The Basic School for Marine Ofcers. He is the
recipient of the Navy Cross, the nations second highest award for valor for leadership actions
in the Republic of Vietnam.
Byron Encalade
Louisiana Oystermen Association
Byron Encalade is a native of East Pointe A-LA Hache, LA, a small shing village in
Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. He engages in harvesting seafood, oysters and shrimp; also
in transporting seafood along the gulf coast states. He is currently serving as Plaquemines
Parish, Louisiana Constable 3rd Ward, American Legion Post 430 Judge Advocate, Louisiana
Wildlife & Fisheries Seed Ground Permit Appeals Board, President of Louisiana Oystermen
Association, President of South Plaquemines United Fisheries Cooperative and most proudly a
lifetime member of the Wolfhound Pack 27th Infantry Regiment Historical Society, Inc.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Elizabeth C. English, Ph.D.
Buoyant Foundation Project and University of Waterloo, Canada
Dr. Elizabeth C English, Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Waterloo
in Ontario and formerly with the LSU Hurricane Center and Tulane School of Architecture,
works on developing amphibious foundation systems as a ood mitigation strategy that
supports the preservation of traditional housing forms and cultural practices. Her current
focus is on Louisiana, the Canadian north and Bangladesh. She came to ood mitigation from
a background of many years of research on wind effects on buildings. She is the founder of
the Buoyant Foundation Project in Louisiana and Ontario, and the organizer of the Building
Resilience Workshops in New Orleans. Both projects promote strategies that work WITH
water to enhance community resilience, and both encourage the use of redundant forms of
ood mitigation to diffuse the concentration of risk that leads to catastrophe in the wake of
the inevitable failure of a single-line-of-defense system. Dr Englishs experience in education,
practice, teaching and research is in both the elds of Architecture and Civil Engineering.
She holds degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning (BA), Civil Engineering (MS) and
Architectural Theory (PhD), from Princeton University, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania,
respectively.
Yarrow Etheredge
Groundwork New Orleans
Yarrow Etheredge is the vice-president of the board of directors and a founder of Groundwork
New Orleans, who works as a Policy Consultant in the Transmission Regulatory Compliance
group at Entergy Services, Inc., where she participates on a Task Force for Transmission and
Distribution Resilience, as related to climate change impacts in on the Gulf Coast. She is a
graduate of Tulane Law School, with a certication of specialty in Environmental Law. She
has worked as an environmental attorney, served as the Director of the Mayors Ofce of
Environmental Affairs for the City of New Orleans in Mayor Ray Nagins rst term, Director
of Public and Legal Affairs for Toxicological and Environmental Associates, and a visiting
adjunct professor of Environment and Development at Tulane Universitys Payson Center for
International Development and Technology Transfer. She is also a founding member of the
Louisiana Brownelds Association, and serves as its vice president.
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John Ettinger
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
John Ettinger is the coastal wetland coordinator for U.S. EPA Region 6. John lives and works
in New Orleans. The overarching goal of Johns work is to help stem the rapid ongoing
loss of coastal wetlands and barrier islands in Louisiana. John has represented EPA in the
development of several large-scale coastal restoration and protection plans. John works
with the Corps of Engineers and others to ensure that hurricane protection levees are
environmentally sound, while also promoting non-structural approaches to reducing ooding
risks. In the wake of hurricane Katrina, John helped expedite the environmental assessment
of the $14.5 billion upgrade of the New Orleans levee system, while reducing impacts to
coastal wetlands. John helped represent EPA on the Obama Administrations Louisiana-
Mississippi Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Working Group, a high-level policy effort to
advance the Nations interests in coastal restoration in Louisiana and Mississippi. In the wake
of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, John assessed the environment impacts of oil spill
response measures proposed by State and local governments, including a proposal to build
over 100 miles of sand berm in the Gulf of Mexico. John is currently assisting the Gulf Coast
Ecosystem Restoration Task Force. In additional to his work in coastal Louisiana, John has
been a lead trainer in EPAs national wetland regulatory training program. Prior to moving
to Louisiana in 2001, John worked for ten years in EPA Headquarters, where he reviewed
controversial development projects involving signicant impacts to wetlands. Before joining
EPA in 1992, John spent over two years as a volunteer in the U.S. Peace Corps. John was
stationed in a rural village in Paraguay, South America, where he worked to improve drinking
water and sanitation, while also helping lead a community-based effort to build a new school.
John has a BA in Philosophy from Marquette University and a MS in Environmental Sciences
from Johns Hopkins University.
Monica Teets Farris
Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology (CHART)
University of New Orleans
Dr. Monica Farris is an Associate Professor-Research and the Director of the Center for
Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology (CHART) at The University of New Orleans.
She earned her MA degree from Louisiana State University and PhD degree from UNO, both
in Political Science, the latter with a public administration/public policy specialization. She
is also recognized as a Certied Floodplain Manager. Dr. Farris current applied research
focuses on education and outreach emphasizing mitigation. She has published on the subject
of building internal capacity for disaster resilience and has presented multiple times on hazard
risk reduction and disaster planning.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Jonathan Foret
South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center
Mr. Jonathan Foret has worked to educate youth both formally and informally across the
world. He began as an English teacher in southern Louisiana and later moved to New York
City to do the same. He then served as a Peace Corps volunteer for two years teaching
English as a second language to students on a remote island in the Kingdom of Tonga. This
service led him to the United Nations to work with youth with disabilities in Bangladesh,
Nepal, Cambodia, Indonesia and Fiji. Upon completion of this work, Jonathan returned to
Louisiana to secure his Masters in Public Administration from the University of New Orleans.
He has returned to the bayou of his childhood to inspire and educate the youth about coastal
issues through his current position at the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center in
Houma, Louisiana.
Jonathan works with youth along the Louisiana coast to help them understand the issues
facing their land so that they can develop their own opinions and lend their voice to the
discussions taking place. He has created and developed an annual Wetlands Youth Summit
that brings students together from several parishes for both learning and networking
opportunities. From this summit, a Wetlands Youth Council was developed to address coastal
issues including the 2012 Coastal Master Plan and the future of some of our most vulnerable
communities.
Beth Galante
Global Green, USA
Beth Galante is responsible for the operation of Global Greens New Orleans Ofce and
Green Building Resource Center, supervision of the Holy Cross Project, and rebuilding
initiatives including green affordable homes, schools, and neighborhoods.
Beth was formerly an Assistant D.A. in New Orleans, handling predominantly homicides,
sex offenses, and public corruption cases. She taught at Tulane Law School as the former
Deputy Director of the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, which was the rst recipient of the
American Bar Associations Distinguished Environmental Achievement Award and the National
Law Journals Runner Up Lawyer of the Year during her tenure, for its groundbreaking work
in the eld of Environmental Justice. She is also a former legal representative of the New
Jersey Attorney General and the Quapaw Indian Nation regarding damages to their natural
resources. Beth has a Masters of Environmental & Energy Law and J.D. from Tulane Law
School.
Beth served as Co-Chair of Mayor Mitch Landrieus Sustainability Task Force and is currently
an Aspen Institute Fellow in its Henry Crown leadership program, Chair of the Green
Collaborative, a group dedicated to advancing sustainable environmental and economic
development in the Greater New Orleans area. She was honored as one of 2011s Champions
of Change by the White House.
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Rutger de Graaf
DeltaSync, Netherlands
Rutger de Graaf is a civil engineer who works on the interface of design, technology and
society to innovate towards ood proof ecocities. In 2008, Rutger was included in the
Dutch Masters, Pioneers in International Business of the Agency of International Business
and Cooperation (EVD) of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. In 2009, he nished
his PhD thesis (cum laude) on innovations in urban water management to reduce the
vulnerability of cities. He is founding partner-managing director of DeltaSync and professor
Adaptive Urban Development at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. DeltaSync
is a leading specialist in the eld of oating urbanization focused on providing innovative
consulting and design services for vulnerable delta areas. As an interdisciplinary think tank,
DeltaSync develops and implements ood proong strategies. The mission of the company
is to create the rst oating city in the world.
P. J. Hahn
Plaquemines Parish
P.J. Hahn was appointed by Mike Foster, to the position as commissioner of the East
Jefferson Levee Districts Board, subsequently becoming its president. Under P. Js
administration, a number of levee board projects were implemented that would later
prove to protect East Jefferson Parish from the storm surge and devastation of Hurricane
Katrina. Due to his extensive successful accomplishments while on the East Jefferson Levee
Districts board, P.J. was offered the Plaquemines Parish Coastal Restoration Directors
position. Within short order, P.J. began working with President Nungesser to develop a
plan to solve the problem of Plaquemines Parishs vast, yet rapidly diminishing coastline.
Their plan, which is currently being implemented and is the rst of its kind for any individual
parish in the state, provides storm surge protection incorporated with coastal restoration,
and has been the impetus for Louisiana coastline projects state-wide to be modied as
well. As credit to its success, the Plaquemines Parish coastal restoration plan has also been
modeled by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Centers
command in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Jonathan Henderson
Gulf Restoration Network
Jonathan Henderson, a native of New Orleans is the Coastal Resiliency Organizer for the
Gulf Restoration Network. Currently, Jonathan is managing GRNs BP drilling disaster eld
operations in the Gulf of Mexico. This includes taking over 90 trips to the Gulf since April
2010 by boat and plane to document and help the media document ongoing disaster impacts
all along the Gulf coast and offshore. Jonathan is also the editor of GRNs bi-weekly on-line
newsletter, GulfWaves and is working with select Louisiana communities on resiliency related
issues. Jonathan received a bachelors degree in Theater from LSU, a Masters of Business
Administration from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a Juris Doctorate from
Southern University Law Center. Jonathan has worked in government relations for many
years including as a legislative assistant at the Louisiana State Legislature and as Director of
Governmental Relations for the Brylski Company, a full-scale public relations rm.
Sebastiaan van Herk
UNESCO-IHE; Bax & Willems Consulting Venturing, Spain
Sebastiaan van Herk holds an MSc degree (cum laude) in systems engineering and policy
analysis from Delft University of Technology, studied industrial engineering at the UPC
Barcelona and economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Mr. Van Herk is partner and
senior consultant at Bax & Willems Consulting Venturing (Spain) in Business Development and
Research & Development. He is a researcher and part-time PhD candidate at Delft University
of Technology at the department of Civil Engineering and a member of the Flood Resilience
Group, also afliated with UNESCO-IHE. His research focuses on collaboration and learning
processes in ood management and urban development planning. As a consultant in these
elds, he creates Learning & Action Alliances and facilitates multi-actor, trans-disciplinary
interaction for policy development, project delivery and knowledge development.
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John Jacobs
City of Rotterdam, Netherlands
John Jacobs (1966) graduated in Water Management in 1992 and has since then worked at
Delft University of Technology, opMAAT (design and advice), waterboards, and the City of
Rotterdam. Here, he was responsible for the Water Plan II Rotterdam, which eventually led
to the innovative climate change adaptation programme Rotterdam Climate Proof (RCP).
Within this programme, nowadays part of the Rotterdam Climate Initiative, John is part of
the steering group and focuses mainly on water related topics and strategic projects such
as, the Rotterdam Adaptation Strategy, waterfront and oating developments, urban water
management and the international Connecting Delta Cities network.
The Rotterdam Climate Initiative is working as a public private partnership on its main
targets: 50% reduction of CO2 and 100% climate resilience in 2025.
For more information: www.rotterdamclimateproof.nl
Alessandra Jerolleman, MPA, CFM
Natural Hazard Mitigation Association
Alessandra Jerolleman is the founder and Executive Director of the Natural Hazard
Mitigation Association (NHMA). She is also a Program Specialist in the Gulf Coast
with Save the Children USA, working on a resilience initiative around childrens needs
in emergencies. She currently serves as one of the Tri-Chairs for the National Hazard
Mitigation Collaborative Alliance, sits on the board of the Greater New Orleans Disaster
Recovery Partnership, and sits on the Executive Committee of the American Society of
Public Administrations Section on Emergency and Crisis Management. She is the co-
author of a textbook, Natural Hazard Mitigation, which will be published by CRC Press
in late 2011. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of New Orleans. Ms.
Jerolleman has acquired wide-ranging experience in the private, non-prot, and academic
sectors.
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John J. Kiefer, Ph.D.
University of New Orleans (UNO); Center for Hazards Assessment,
Response and Technology (CHART)
Dr. John Kiefer is Professor and Director of the Master of Public Administration program in the
Department of Political Science at the University of New Orleans (UNO). He is also a faculty
associate at the Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology (CHART), UNOs
applied hazards social science research center. Professor Kiefer implemented the Hazard
Policy specialization within the Master of Public Administration program at UNO, a curriculum
that emphasizes the creation of resilient agencies and organizations. He teaches courses
in hazard policy/administration and program evaluation. In his applied research, Dr. Kiefer
specializes in the development of outcome-focused collaborative networks to create disaster
resilience in organizations and communities. He is or has been either principal investigator or
a research team member for projects that include elderly evacuation, technology initiatives
for vulnerable populations, repetitive ood loss mitigation, and national ood policy.
Professor Kiefer has published several book chapters, a variety of journal articles and other
publications, and delivered professional papers at more than forty conferences. His rst
book, Natural Hazard Mitigation, co-authored with Alessandra Jerolleman, is to be published
this summer. He has been principal evaluator for a broad range of programs funded by the
U.S. Department of Education, Department of Homeland Security, State of Louisiana, and
several cities, receiving almost a million dollars in grant-related research funding. He is the
past chair of the Section on Emergency and Crisis Management of the American Society for
Public Administration and currently on the Executive Board of the Southeastern Conference
for Public Administration. Dr. Kiefer has a Ph.D. in Public Management, a Master of Urban
Studies, and a Master of Science in Administration. Prior to coming to UNO, Dr. Kiefer was a
Research Professor at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He is a retired U.S. Marine
Corps ofcer.
K.C. King
UNO-CHART
K.C. King has over forty years experience dening, executing, verifying and validating the
processes for architecting, specifying, engineering and building large, agile information-
intensive systems for enterprise-scale missions in both commercial and government sectors.
His experience includes 16 years of large-scale systems engineering with Boeing, 11 years
of championing the adoption and adaptation the Rational Unied Process (RUP) and its
predecessors to very large scale, non-traditional development, and 5 years of collaborative
teaming between Boeing, the military Services, DARPA and the Carnegie-Mellon SEI on
applied architecture and engineering processes research, in both administrative and training
roles.
King most recently applied his career systems engineering experience to two catastrophic
incidents impacting the residents of Southern Louisiana Hurricane Katrina and the
Deepwater Horizon Blowout. He actively advocates a systems approach based on emerging
resilience systems engineering doctrine and practices. King is a member of the Governors
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Housing Task Force in support of the Louisiana Recovery Authority. He is also a member of the
International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), collaborating with The Infrastructure
Security Partnership (TISP) in developing a framework for Resilience Systems Engineering
(RSE).
Shirley Laska
UNO-CHART
Shirley Laska, PhD, is professor emerita of sociology and founding past director of the Center
for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology at the University of New Orleans (UNO-
CHART). She has been conducting applied research on the social/environmental interface,
natural & technological hazards, and disaster response, especially long-term recovery and risk
reduction, for 25 years. Her work includes studies on residential ood mitigation, hurricane
response, coastal land loss effects, coastal sheries, community risk assessment and risk
management for coastal hazards, use of information technology and GIS 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 resiliency both in the urban and
non 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 Katrina and
the BP oil leak.
Belinda Little-Wood
Naval Support Activity New Orleans Advisory Task Force
Belinda Little-Wood is the Executive Director of the Local Redevelopment Authority for the
Naval Support Activity East Bank facility in New Orleans, LA. Ms. Little-Wood assumed
this position in February 2007 as part of the Ofce of Recovery of the City of New Orleans.
Working in the Recovery Ofce, she participated in the planning and implementation of many
of the rebuilding efforts. Building on the aspects of recovery from the hurricane Katrina, she
has led a Task Force who created a reuse plan for the Naval Support Activity East Bank
facility. This development envisions an international disaster management center that will
include an emergency operations center, temporary shelter for essential personnel during a
catastrophic event, research and development opportunities, and training facilities.
Prior to joining the City of New Orleans she owned and operated 10th Capital Small
Business Advisors, LLC, a business consulting rm specializing in small business development
and entrepreneurship. Before Hurricane Katrina, she was the President/CEO of Newtek
Community Financial Services, LLC, in New Orleans, LA, which provided services to businesses
such as, nancing through SBA loans, strategic planning, tax services, merchant processing,
and general business consulting nationwide. Ms. Little-Wood is a 28 year resident of Algiers,
a suburb in the heart of New Orleans on the west bank of the Mississippi River. She received
a Masters in Business Administration in 1978 and graduated from the Mid-South School of
Banking in 1983.
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John Anthony Lopez
Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation
Dr. John Lopez is a coastal scientist who is LPBFs Executive Director and Director of the
Coastal Sustainability Program. He has multi-disciplinary training in Geology, Engineering, and
Biological Sciences and has handled project assignments for CWPPRA while working for the
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. Dr. Lopez developed the Multiple Lines of Defense Strategy,
which integrates ood protection and coastal restoration. He has chaired the Lake Pontchartrain
Articial Reef Working Group that has constructed nine reefs in Lake Pontchartrain from 2000 to
2009; the articial reefs have been shown to increase sh population and biodiversity in the lake.
Dr. Lopez received the Conservationist of the Year Award in 2008 from the Louisiana Wildlife
Federation and the Coastal Zone 05 Conference Award from NOAA.
Keven Lovetro
USACE
Mr. Lovetro currently serves as the Chief of the Economic and Social Analysis Branchs
Flood Risk Management Section in the New Orleans District of the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers. He supervises a team of regional economists and social science analysts who
conduct economic feasibility analyses and social impact assessments for proposed ood risk
management projects. Projects range from multi-million dollar hurricane protection levees
and urban drainage systems to nonstructural alternatives such as structure elevation and
acquisition. The cost effectiveness of ecosystem restoration projects is also evaluated.
A Corps employee since 1984, Mr. Lovetro earned is M.A. in Economics from the University
of New Orleans and in International Affairs from the George Washington University in 1979.
He has been accredited as a Certied Flood Plain Manager by the Association of State Flood
Plain Managers and currently serves on the Corps National Nonstructural/Flood Proong
Committee.
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Camille Manning-Broome
Director of Planning, Center for Planning Excellence (CPEX)
Bringing a combination of experience in both social and hard sciences, Camille Manning-
Broome oversees multi-disciplinary statewide planning efforts that provide grant funding,
technical assistance and model tools to communities across Louisiana. She has spearheaded
and directed cross-institutional projects such as the Louisiana Land Use Toolkit, Coastal Best
Practices Manual, and other statewide initiatives. She has also worked on planning efforts at
the local scale with over 15 communities across the state.
Prior to working at CPEX, Manning-Broome worked at the Shaw Group where she assisted
in the development of the rst Comprehensive Master Plan for the Coastal Protection and
Restoration Authority. Prior to Shaw, she was part of the management in FEMAs Louisiana
Speaks process overseeing the development of 26 Parish recovery plans, now being
implemented across the state.
Manning-Broome is a frequent presenter at universities and conferences, has received various
awards, and was a guest and participant on Congressional delegation trips to the Netherlands
and Japan to study water and disaster management, both led by U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu.
A native of Baton Rouge, she earned her Bachelors degree and M.S. in Environmental
Sciences at LSU. Manning-Broome is partial owner of Renovate Urban Properties, a company
that purchases blighted apartment complexes for renovation. This work has resulted in the
rejuvenation and increase in property value in Mid-City, Baton Rouge.
Manning played a central role in drafting the initiative rebuilding plan for New Orleans,
and has spoken to news networks such as CNN on the blueprint for the rebuilding of New
Orleans. Manning was recently elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute
of Architects (AIA), which recognizes architects who have made a signicant contribution to
architecture and society and who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession.
Douglas Meffert
Louisiana National Audubon Society
Dr. Douglas Meffert is a Vice President and Executive Director of Louisiana for the National
Audubon Society. Audubons Louisiana team focuses on large scale coastal and gulf
restoration as part of the Mississippi River Delta Restoration initiative and the protection of
many globally signicant Important Bird Areas. Doug has a long history in the Louisiana, most
recently as Director of Project Development and Associate Professor at Tulane Universitys
Payson Center for International Development, and as the Executive Director of River
Sphere, an initiative to develop a new campus for the university oriented to water resources
and renewable energy. Prior to those posts, he was Deputy Director of the Center for
Bioenvironmental Research, a joint project of Tulane and Xavier Universities. Doug received
a Loeb Fellowship at Harvards Graduate School of Design and is a faculty associate at the
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, MA. He holds MBA and Bachelor of Engineering
degrees from Tulane, and a Ph.D. in environmental science and engineering from UCLA.
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Grasshopper Mendoza
Horizon Initiative Water Management; The Idea Village
Grasshopper Mendoza is a real estate sales and leasing professional with NAI/Latter & Blum
Inc. where she emphasizes energy efcient and sustainable building development in the
commercial sector. Grasshopper is an entrepreneur with a background in small business,
networking, civic leadership and integrated water management strategies. She Chairs
the Horizon Initiative Water Management Committee and the New Orleans Metropolitan
Association of Realtors (NOMAR) Commercial Investment Division (CID) Green Building
Committee. Grasshopper is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at The Idea Village for the Water
Challenge Business Competition promoting water as an entrepreneurial opportunity and
regional asset.
Robert K. Miller
Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans
Bob Miller moved to New Orleans to become Deputy Director at Sewerage and Water Board
in 2008. He is responsible for Strategic Planning, Accounting, Customer Service, Human
Resources, Information Technology, Risk Management, Environmental Services, and other
operations support services. His focus since arriving has been on ensuring the sustainability
and nancial viability of the utility as it continues to recover from the devastating effects of
Hurricane Katrina.
Before moving to New Orleans, he was Chief Financial Ofcer at Louisville Water Company
and 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 has
published and presented more than thirty papers on utility management and operations. He
was one of the primary authors of the AWWA Business Practices Standards and is recognized
as an industry leader in utility governance and enterprise risk management practices.
He has a Bachelors Degree in Commerce from University of Louisville and a Masters Degree
in Business Administration from Indiana University.
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Peter Minnema
Dura Vermeer
Peter works as business developer at the Dutch construction rm Dura Vermeer. He focuses
on creating business cases for urban area developments with aspects of ood adaptation and
mitigating and/or sustainable energy use. He is also active at the Dutch Delta programme in
the role of bridging the gap between public and private sector in this national ood defense
programme. Peter studied urban area planning at the Delft University of Technology.
David Muth
National Wildlife Federation (NWF)
David Muth is a New Orleans native who has spent a lifetime in the Mississippi River delta and
on the Louisiana coast, studying its geology, ecology, plants, wildlife, history and culture. He
took his degree in history at University of New Orleans and became professionally interested
in the connection between culture and environment in the context of the delta. He worked
for 30 years with the National Park Service at Jean Latte National Historical Park and
Preserve 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 the
Louisiana State Director of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF).
The campaign is a joint effort among NWF, Environmental Defense Fund and the National
Audubon Society, along with local partners like the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana,
the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, the Louisiana Wildlife Federation, and the Nature
Conservancy of Louisiana, to bring about comprehensive, systemic restoration of the
Mississippi River delta. They are working to nd and seek consensus and national support for
an ecologically sound and sustainable program to restore the ow of the Mississippi River to
its dying delta, and to do so in a way that preserves the communities and culture of coastal
Louisiana to the maximum extent possible.
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Albert P. Naquin
Chief, Isle de Jean Charles
Chief Albert P. Naquin is a retired Federal employee. He retired from the Department of
Interior/Mineral Management Service (MMS) with 24 years of service. He was an oil eld
safety inspector in the Gulf of Mexico for MMS and also for Bureau of Land Management
(BLM) in Colorado and New Mexico.
Albert P. Naquin is the chief of the community of Isle de Jean Charles and of the Isle de Jean
Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, Inc. in Montegut, LA. He has been the chief since
1997. He is the 5th chief of Isle de Jean Charles since the community started developing in
the early to mid 1800s. He is very proud to be the chief of a community of wonderful people
and to follow the footsteps of the great leaders before him. The rst three chiefs saw Isle de
Jean Charles grow from nothing to a beautiful community. Now as chief, Albert is watching
the community that was so beautiful when he was growing up wash away, because of salt-
water intrusion.
Albert really didnt claim or want to be an Indian until 1995, because of what he went through as
a child and the way people talked about Indians. In 1995 Thomas Dardar and Albert had a long
talk after a Pow-Wow about Indians and Albert also read Dee Browns book Bury My Heart at
Wounded Knee. From then on Albert has been a true Indian and now chief.
Nico van Os, MPA
Safety Region South Holland South
N. (Nico) van Os is a police commissioner working for Safety Region South Holland South
since 2004. The safety region is a public organisation, founded by 19 municipalities
in the region, based on the Dutch Safety Region Act 2010. Within a safety region,
several administrations and services with tasks in the eld of re ghting, disaster & crisis
management, Medical Assistance in Accidents and Disasters (GHOR) and maintaining public
order and safety collaborate. The Netherlands has 25 total safety regions. The Safety Region
has important responsibilities not only in response and preparation but also in consultancy
to the local government in pro-action and prevention matters, including risk and crisis
communication. There is also a very close cooperation with the water boards. Through the
Region SHS, ow two of the main rivers in Holland and the water of the North Sea reaches the
harbour of Dordrecht.
In addition to being police commissioner, Nico is also a senior policy advisor and project
manager. From 1999 till 2004 he worked for the ministry of Internal affairs as a senior policy
advisor and as a part time member of the national crisis centre. Since 2010 he has been a
project manager of the Interreg4c project MiSRaR and participates in the Interreg4b project
MARE.
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Steven Peyronnin
Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL)
Steven Peyronnin serves as the Executive Director for the Coalition to Restore Coastal
Louisiana (CRCL). CRCL is a statewide advocacy organization focusing on coastal policy
and public affairs issues related to the protection and restoration of a sustainable coastal
Louisiana. He received a BA in Political Science from the University of Mississippi in 1995. He
currently serves on the Louisiana Coastal Master Plan Framework Development Team, the
Outreach Committee for the Coastal Wetlands Planning Protection and Restoration Act and
the Americas Energy Coast Ecosystem Vulnerability Task Force. He is a member of the Board
of Directors for Restore Americas Estuaries and the Trust for Coastal Stewardship and serves
on the Steering Committee of the Great Waters Coalition.
Steve Picou
LSU AgCenter
Steve Picou is a sustainability professional, musician, writer and futurist with a background in
government, economic development, administration, strategic planning, media production,
public safety, and energy efciency/sustainable building. Steve brings systems-thinking to
all his work. He applies his business acumen and skills to develop sustainable organizations
that reect principles of balance, equity, and cooperation with natural resources. Steve is an
agent with the LSU AgCenter Cooperative Extension Service where he promotes climate-
appropriate construction, energy efciency and sustainability team development. A graduate
of the University of New Orleans, he is a candidate for a Master of Science in Urban Studies in
2013. Steve is a Fellow of the Institute for Environmental Communications and the Institute of
Politics at Loyola University of New Orleans.
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Charlotte Randolph
Lafourche Parish
Charlotte Randolph is the President of Lafourche Parish. Charlotte is also the current owner
of Randolph Publications, a public relations and advertising company. Charlotte has been
the recipient of several awards and recognitions due to her outstanding achievements. In
2009, Charlotte was named one of New Orleans Magazines Top 10 Female Achievers and
in 2001, she was named Business Person of the Year.
Charlottes community involvement includes: President of Parishes Against Coastal Erosion
(PACE), Steering Committee member of National Associate of Counties (NACo), Chairman
of the Board of the Chamber of Lafourche & the Bayou Region, and Board of Directors
member of the Bayou Industrial Group.
Derk van Ree
Deltares, The Netherlands
Derk van Ree is senior specialist currently with the Department of Scenario and Policy
Analysis from Deltares, The Netherlands. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Physical Geography
and a Masters Degree in Geohydrology from the Free Reformed University in Amsterdam
(The Netherlands). He is senior specialist in the environmental eld related to soil and
groundwater issues including environmental impact assessment and sustainable development
of the subsurface. He is actively involved in a number of European networks and research
projects in the eld of soil and groundwater.
He has been project manager for the Biogrout-development in the research area SmartSoils
to 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 currently
being looked at as a potential technology to prevent internal erosion at critical locations in
ood defences.
He is the European project coordinator for the EU Seventh Framework Programme research
project FloodProBE on technologies for the cost-effective Flood Protection of the Built
Environment, a project in which 14 partners from 7 different European Member States
perform cooperative research in the eld of ood risk management. He also is member of the
local organizing committee for the international FLOODrisk2012-conference in Rotterdam
(NL) that will be held from November 20-22th 2012.
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Liesbeth van Riet Paap
Room for the River, The Netherlands
Liesbeth van Riet Paap is the Environmental Implementation Manager and a member of
the Board of Directors of the Dutch government program Room for the River. Liesbeth van
Riet Paap is responsible for the process coordination and knowledge exchange between
politicians, civil servants, project teams and public works of the Room for the River
program. She is also continually promoting the integration of science research and water
management policy in the Room for the River program.
At the European Union level, Room for the River is Lead Partner for two large projects of
the European Union: Adaptive Land use for Flood Alleviation (ALFA) and FloodResilienCity
(FRC). Liesbeth is the project manager for both projects and is responsible for the
knowledge exchange between the Programma Room for the River, Rijkswaterstaat and the
European projects. At the international level Liesbeth van Riet Paap coordinates the Room
for the River multilevel governance approach in the United States, China and Australia.
Liesbeth van Riet Paap has a wealth of experience in the eld of Infrastructural, Water and
Transport management and has worked for Rijkswaterstaat for 17 years. Liesbeth van Riet
Paap acquired her Masters in Political History of the Modern Times and Organisational
Administration from the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands.
Jeroen Rijke
Room for the River, The Netherlands
Jeroen Rijke is a consultant and a PhD candidate (TU Delft/UNESCO-IHE) who is specialized
in water governance, transition management and programme evaluation. Having an
academic background in civil engineering, environmental engineering and policy science,
his work focuses primarily on the interface between technology and governance. As
such, he was involved in projects about mainstreaming of innovations in urban water
management, climate adaptation in urban areas and ood risk management. Jeroen has
worked in several different countries in Europe, Africa and Australia. Currently, he is
working on a scientic evaluation of the 2.3 billion Euro ood safety programme Room for
the River (the Netherlands) in which he studies how multi-level governance arrangements
enable integrated river basin management.
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Colonel Pat Santos (Ret.)
Governors Ofce of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness
Colonel Pat Santos (Ret.) joined the Louisiana Army National Guard in June 1979. In December
1981, he was commissioned a Distinguished Military Graduate from the ROTC program at
the University of New Orleans. As a member of the famed 1-141st Field Artillery Battalion he
served in various command and staff positions and was activated for Desert Storm in 1990
with the 256th Combat Brigade. While serving in the State Headquarters he was the lead
project ofcer launching the rst Louisiana State Partnership Programs with the countries
of Uzbekistan and Belize. Currently, as the Deputy Director of Emergency Management
within the Governors Ofce of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP)
Santos has primary oversight of all of the States emergency management functions. He is a
principal advisor to the Governor and the State Unied Command during emergencies such as
Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008 and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010.
In 1981 Santos earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from the
University of New Orleans and a Masters Degree in Organizational Management in 1997. He
is a graduate of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Staff School and the Command and General
Staff College. He was awarded a fellowship and completed the National Preparedness
Leadership Program focusing on Meta-Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School for
Executive Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2010.
Cynthia M. Sarthou
Gulf Restoration Network
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 and
individuals concerned about the long-term health of the Gulf of Mexico and committed to
uniting and empowering people to protect and restore the resources of the Gulf Region. The
GRN currently works to: (1) protect and restore Louisianas natural storm defenses; (2) protect
water resources affecting the Gulf; (3) build resilient coastal communities facing the effects
of global climate change (4) protect the Gulfs threatened and endangered species; and (5)
obtain sustainable management of federal sheries.
Sarthou received her B.A. from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, her law degree
from the University of Mississippi in 1983 and her Masters of Law in Law and Marine Affairs
from the University of Washington in 1992. From 1992-1995 she was staff attorney for Heart
of America Northwest in Seattle, Washington, a citizens group committed to quality of life
issues in the Northwest.
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Rod Scott
Expert House Movers Inc.
Rod is Director of Development and Historic Resources/Hazard Mitigation specialist with
Expert House Movers(EHM), Inc., St Louis, MO operations. EHM is one of the nations largest
structural hazard mitigation elevation/re-location companies with more unied hydraulic
jacking machines and operators than any other company. The company moved the Cape
Hatteras and four other historic lighthouses in the 1990s and pioneered the elevation/
relocation of multiple Missouri River towns over the last 15 years.
Rod has over 20 years of experience as a contractor recovering buildings from ooding and
re damage with a specialty in historic structures. Rod served two three year terms as a
Governor appointed Trustee of the State Historic Division in Iowa and 10 years on the Board
of Directors of Preservation Iowa, with the nal two years as President of the Board. Rod was
very involved with disaster recovery of multiple towns affected by historic ooding in Iowa in
2008. Currently he is continuing to work in the Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene and Tropical
Storm Lee ood devastated north east U.S., educating property owners and governments
about the benets of multiple structure elevation as opposed to acquisition/demolition for
sustainable community recovery and hazard mitigation.
Damien Serre
Ecole des Ingnieurs de la Ville de Paris (EIVP)
Damien Serre is a French academic currently leading a Research Thematic Group atEcole des
Ingnieurs de la Ville de Paris (EIVP), focused on developing knowledge of urban resilience
from a technical point of view, including social factors such as new governance scenarios. He
has a PhD in Geographic Information Sciences (GIS). His dissertation River levee performance
assessment. Criteria design in a Geographic Information, was successfully defended in 2005
with the highest distinction. He spent an additional six months with the HR Wallingford Flood
Group Team, in the UK. This allowed him to augment his academic research in terms of ood
risk management and assessment with insights gained from the private sector. He has been
employed by EIVP for four years as Scientic Manager of the Building Department. He also
serves as the scientic coordinator for one of the two EIVP research thematics: Risk and Urban
Resilience, where he manages ve research projects funded by various entities: the EU, the
French Government and local administrations. The main objectives of his research are designing
methodologies and tools, based on resilience concepts, to assess and implement projects and
programs that would improve the resiliency of cities potentially impacted by various risks or
solicitations. Ultimately these will lead to sustainable city planning and design.
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Tom Smith, PE, PMP
USACE
Tom Smith PE, PMP is a Project Manager with the US Army Corps of Engineers in Mobile,
Alabama and helps direct the Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program (MsCIP pronounced
miss sip). The MsCIP is developing and implementing structural, non-structural and
environmental projects to reduce risk and damages from storms and to improve resiliency
of the Mississippi coast. This includes development of a systemwide comprehensive plan for
coastal measures and project implementation including seawall construction, barrier island
restoration, marsh creation and real estate buyouts. In addition, he continues to construct
environmental infrastructure projects in coastal Mississippi. Smith is an engineering graduate
of the University of Tennessee specializing in systems and networks. He is a member of the
American Beach and Shore Preservation Association (ASBPA) and the Society of American
Military Engineers (SAME)
Lieutenant Colonel Jerry Sneed
USMC, (Ret)
Lieutenant Colonel Sneed ofcially retired from the United States Marine Corps on September
1, 2005, (only a few days after Hurricane Katrina) after serving a total of 32 years of military
service in both the enlisted and ofcer ranks. His last major assignment prior to retirement
was January to October 2004, with the 3d Civil Affairs Group in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. At
the time, Lieutenant Colonel Sneed had no idea that this tour would 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 Colonel Sneed
contacted the Homeland Security Director for the City of New Orleans and volunteered his
services and was given the assignment of developing and conducting the Look 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 Colonel Sneed was brought on payroll
in the city of New Orleans Ofce of Homeland Security as a planner and helped develop the
City Assisted Evacuation Plan (CAEP) with the objective of evacuating 30,000 citizens that
needed the most assistance in evacuating the city.
On October 2, 2006, Lieutenant Colonel Sneed became the Director, Ofce of Emergency
Preparedness 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,
Ofce of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. On May 2, 2010, under Mayor
Landrieus administration, Lieutenant Colonel Sneed was appointed as the Deputy Mayor of
Public Safety.
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Elizabeth Boo Thomas
President and CEO, Center for Planning Excellence
Well versed in local community planning activities, Thomas has led neighborhood redevelopment
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-City Redevelopment Alliance, Thomas has been
an advocate for smart growth in Louisiana throughout her career. After Katrina, she led CPEX in
facilitating the Louisiana Speaks recovery process, the largest planning effort ever undertaken in
Louisiana. The process resulted in the Louisiana Speaks Regional Plan, a comprehensive plan created
through the participation of over 27,000 South Louisiana residents.
In recognition of her contributions to Louisiana, Thomas has been honored by the Baton
Rouge Chamber of Commerce, the YMCA, the Baton Rouge Business Report, LSU and the
Louisiana Architecture Foundation. In 2009, Thomas and CPEX were awarded the Olmsted
Medal by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for incredible leadership and
set the standard for bringing community members and leaders together to work toward a
shared vision for future growth and development.
David Waggonner
Waggonner & Ball Architects
David Waggonner is principal of Waggonner & Ball Architects, a New Orleans- based
architecture and planning rm. Subsequent to Hurricane Katrina, Waggonner & Ball
developed the Recovery Framework for St. Bernard Parish. With the support of the Royal
Netherlands Embassy and the American Planning Association, Mr. Waggonner has continued
the effort to dene more intelligently the planning and redevelopment problem that the New
Orleans region presents. A series of Dutch Dialogues has been initiated, to inform the people
in the urbanized lower Mississippi River Delta about ways to integrate infrastructure, visible
and invisible, with surface, ground, and water to live safely and benecially in south Louisiana.
Waggonner received his undergraduate education at Duke University, and a Master of
Architecture from Yale University. Mr. Waggonner has served as principal-in-charge of
multiple award-winning architectural projects in education, ecclesiastical, ofce, hotel, retail,
renovation and restoration categories.
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Patty Whitney
Bayou History Center
Patty Whitney is a native of southeastern coastal Louisiana. She is a graduate of Nicholls
State University and is the mother of three sons and the grandmother of two grandsons.
After retiring as an Ofcial Court Reporter, Patty began working as an organizer with Bayou
Interfaith Shared Community Organizing (commonly known as BISCO) in Thibodaux,
Louisiana. She has continued in her position there and currently serves as BISCOs
Environmental Advocacy Specialist and writer. BISCO uses community organizing to
address 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 is
known for her humorous style and Cajun jokes in presentations, as well as explaining complex
theories and systems in simple and practical ways.
Patty is an avid genealogist and currently serves as the Director of Bayou History Center, Inc.,
a newly formed nonprot dedicated to the vision of Studying Yesterday to Understand Today
and Improve Tomorrow.
John C. Williams
John C. Williams Architects
John C. Williams is the Principal in Charge of John C. Williams Architects, based in New
Orleans, Louisiana. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree, Bachelor of Architecture and
Master in Architecture from Tulane University. John Williams is a member of the American
Institute of Architects, the Governors Committee of Coastal Protection, the Board of
Advisors for the Tulane School, and the Board of Longue Vue House & Gardens. He serves
on the steering committee of the Neighborhood Planning Network, and was elected as the
Neighborhood Planner for the Lower Ninth Ward with the Unied New Orleans Plan. Since
Hurricane Katrina, Williams Architects has been closely involved in planning and rebuilding
projects in the Lower Ninth Ward. As the Neighborhood Planning Team for the Unied New
Orleans Plan, Williams Architects has partnered with neighborhood organizations to ensure
ever-present resident participation in the recovery effort. The rm also acts as the Executive
Architect and Architect of Record for both the Global Green Holy Cross Project and the
Make it Right Project, aiming to improve residents access to safe, affordable, healthy, and
sustainable housing.
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Jeana C. Wiser
BRWIII
Jeana C. Wiser is one of the BRWIII organizers. She recently graduated from the University
of Washingtons College of the Built Environment with a Master of Urban Planning degree
(2011). While attending UW, Jeana was the lead Research Assistant 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 the State of
Washington Emergency Management Division. Also, at UW, Jeana was the lead Research
Assistant for a King County, Washington grant-funded project documenting and providing
guidance for Seattles unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings, particularly with emphasis
on the relationship between hazard mitigation and historic preservation in the context of
seismic retrots in older, existing URM buildings.
Currently, Jeana is the National Trust for Historic Preservations Preservation Green Lab
(PGL) Research Fellow in Seattle, Washington. As Research Fellow for PGL, Jeana works
on policy development and research pertaining to existing buildings and particularly on
building reuse and energy retrot strategies for older, smaller, existing buildings.
Jeana also has a BS in Ethnic Studies and a BS in Liberal Studies from Oregon State
University.
Carolyn Woosley, CFP
Chenier Plain Committee of Chamber SWLA; Executive Board, CRCL
(Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana)
Carolyn Woosley, CFP retired, is a Lake Charles native and resident with degrees from
Tulane (B.A., history) and U.C.L.A. (M.A., urban planning). Her nancial planning practice
was Los Angeles-based. Since returning to SWLA she has been active in issues ranging
from downtown development to restoring access to National Public Radio to coastal
preservation and is the 2004 recipient of the Civic Service Award of the Chamber/Alliance
SWLA.
Woosley serves on the Executive Board of Directors of the Coalition to Restore Coastal
Louisiana (CRCL). She co-founded and co-chairs the Chenier Plain Committee of the
Chamber SWLA. Her focus as advocate is on the Chenier Plain.
As a playwright Woosleys body of work includes stageplays, screenplays and one libretto.
During 2010 AlterEgo Productions toured six of Woosleys 13 monologues -- collectively
entitled Louisiana Women -- throughout the State in two companies, one Lake Charles-
based and the other, Shreveport-based and partnered with Mahogany Ensemble Theatre.
AlterEgo also worked with the Ogden Museum of the South to produce two of the
monologues, Clyde (Connell) and Clementine (Hunter) during New Orleans Fringe
Festival 2010.
Woosley is most proud of her daughter, Brooke, a Los Angeles-based designer.
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Ann Yoachim
Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law & Policy
Ann Yoachim is Program Manager at the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law & Policy.
Her current work helps shape policies and programs at the local, state, and federal level on
non-structural mitigation, climate change adaptation, and long-term disaster recovery. Ms.
Yoachim has over fteen years of experience providing technical assistance to communities in
both international and domestic settings on a broad range of issues related to health and the
environment. She has an MPH from Tulane Universitys School of Public Health and Tropical
Medicine where she serves as adjunct faculty in the Department of Environmental Health
Sciences and a BA in Environmental Studies and Political Science from Dickinson College.
Dr. Jason CS Yu
Dept of Marine Environment and Engineering,
National Sun Yat-sen University
Dr. Jason CS Yu, Assistant Professor at the Dept of Marine Environment and Engineering,
National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He is in charged also with the steering
of the Centre of Water Resources Research and head of the International Exchange of the
university. He has been responsible for the development of a system of marine operational
models on forecasting tide, storm surge and ocean currents in the seas around Taiwan. He has
designed a cluster of coastal constructed wetlands for coastal ooding resilience and water
quality management for Dapeng Bay, south Taiwan. He has been involved with several EU
projects, i.e. CENAS, MMARIE, PROMISE, TROPOS.
Chris Zevenbergen
IHE-UNESCO, TU Delft & Dura Vermeer, Netherlands
Chris Zevenbergen is the director of the Business Development Department of DuraVermeer
Group NV and professor at the Water Engineering Department of UNESCO-IHE and
TuDelft, The Netherlands. He worked in the 1980s as a researcher on various environmental
issues related to the building industry followed by 20 years of research and consultancy in
environmental engineering and water management of urban systems. In the past 15 years he
has accumulated extensive national and international experience with integrated approaches
to manage oods in urban environments with a specic interest in innovative concepts to
mitigate urban ood impacts, ood proong building designs and technologies and decision
support tool development in urban planning with practical application in urban ood
management.
He has published/edited ve books in the eld of environmental engineering and urban ood
management. He was co-founder and chairman of the European Network COST C22 on
Urban Flood Management. He chairs the Flood Resilience Group (FRG) and is member of the
boards of the Dutch Living with Water program, the Netherlands Water Partnership, and the
Cooperative Program Water and Climate. He is member of the editorial board of the Journal
of Flood Risk Management.
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