7:00 AM - 7:00 PM

REGISTRATION

8:00 AM – 3:00 PM

LAB-SITE SESSIONS (Bus Tours)
“Louisiana as Laboratory for Deltaic Coastal Sustainability”

• Coastal Engineering - Caernarvon Freshwater Diversion Demonstration
  Co-chair: Richard Raynie, Director of Louisiana Applied Coastal Engineering and Science Program, LA Office of Coastal Protection & Restoration
  Co-chair: Steve Mathies, Executive Director, LA Office of Coastal Protection & Restoration (invited)
  
• Community Vulnerability & Cultural Retreat - Terrebonne Parish - Isle de Jean Charles & Plaquemines Parish Erosion Consequences
  Co-Chair: Dr. Joseph N. Suhayda, Interim Director, Hurricane Center, Louisiana State University
  Co-Chair, Marco Cocito-Monoc, Director of Regional Initiatives, The Greater New Orleans Foundation
• Conservation Awareness - Wetland Restoration/Planting in New Orleans City Park
  Chair: Hilary Collis, America’s WETLAND Conservation Corps
• Urban Spatial Design - New Orleans Master Planning and Dutch Dialogues
  Co-chair: Dale Morris, Senior Advisor, Economic Division, The Royal Netherlands Embassy
  Co-chair: David Waggonner, Principal, Waggonner & Ball Architects
• Critical Infrastructure Sustainability - LA Hwy 1 Transportation Corridor and Port Fourchon
  Co-chair: Ted Falgout, President, Ted M. Falgout & Associates
  Co-chair: Steven Peyronnin, Executive Director, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana
  Co-chair: Henri Boulet, Executive Director, LA 1 Coalition
• Triple Threat Climate, Subsidence, Sediment - Coastal Protection & Restoration Urgency
  Co-chair: Janine E. Powell, Director, National Wetlands Research Center, USGS
  Co-chair: Dr. Denise Reed, Professor, Interim Director, Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of New Orleans
  Co-chair: Dr. Torbjörn E. Törnqvist, Director, DOE-NICCR Coastal Center, Tulane University

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

CONFERENCE SCOPING SESSION
Orientation Presentation
Common Vision & Cross Purposes

5:00 PM

Welcome

        R. King Milling, Chairman, America’s WETLAND Foundation

5:05 PM

Introductions

        The Hon. Billy Nungesser, President, Plaquemines Parish

5:10 PM

“Common Vision And Cross Purposes”

        Moderator: Dr. Denise Reed, Professor, Interim Director, Pontchartrain Institute for
        Environ. Sciences, University of New Orleans

       Panelists:

• Environmental/Ecological
  Dale Hall, Chief Executive Officer, Ducks Unlimited
  
• Restoration and Protection
  Paul Harrison, Coastal Louisiana Project Manager, Environmental Defense Fund
• Community and Culture
  The Hon. Randy Roach, Lake Charles, LA
• Energy and Economic Development
  Mary Mujica, President, Shell Pipeline
• Security, Community Resiliency, Emergency Preparedness
  Mr. Edward E. Belk, Deputy Director of Regional Business, Mississippi Valley Division/Mississippi River Commission, USACE
• Policy and Regulatory
  Dale Morris, Senior Advisor, Economic Division, The Royal Netherlands Embassy

6:00 PM

Adjournment

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

OPENING RECEPTION

7:00 AM - 5:00 PM

REGISTRATION

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM

OPENING PLENARY SESSION

        R. King Milling, Chairman, America’s WETLAND Foundation
        Hon. Bobby Jindal, Governor, State of Louisiana (invited)

Welcome

Featured Panel

       “Deltas in Crisis: Mississippi River Delta in the Context of World Deltaic Systems”
        Moderator: Dr. Robert Twilley, Director, Coastal Sustainability Studio, LSU

        Panelists:
        Dr. Charles J. Vörösmarty, Distinguished Scientist, The City College of New York
        Dr. Chris Paola, Principal Investigator, National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

BREAK

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

SUSTAINABILITY DEMONSTRATION SALON I

Featured Panel

       “Managing Vulnerabilities and Risks in Working Deltas”
        Fred Krupp, President, Environmental Defense Fund (invited)
        John Hollowell, Executive Vice President -Deep Water, Shell

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

BREAK

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

LUNCHEON PLENARY SESSION

Special Presentation

       “Need for All at Sustainability Table”
        Warner Williams, Vice President, Gulf of Mexico Business Unit, Chevron (invited)

Keynote Address

      “Sustainability of Deltas in a Changing World”
       Douglas Brinkley, Author, “The Great Deluge” and Professor of History, Rice University

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

BREAK

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM

SUSTAINABILITY DEMONSTRATION SALON 2

Promising Practices

       “The Future of Fish and Wildlife in the Mississippi Delta”
        Dale Hall, CEO, Ducks Unlimited
       “Ecosystem Services Valuing”
        Tracy Farrell, Senior Director of Freshwater Conservation Program, Global Strategies
        Division, Conservation International

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM

BREAK

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

DESIGN CHARETTES I: Organizational Session

12 concurrent sessions, with following multi-disciplinary interests included in each:

• Policy & Regulatory
• Environmental/Ecological
• Restoration & Protection
• Community & Culture
• Energy/Economy Development/Navigation/Transportation
• Security/Urban and Rural Community Resiliency/Emergency Preparedness

8:30 AM – 10:15 AM

PLENARY SESSION

Featured Presentations

       “Our Legacy, Our Responsibility”
        Larry Schweiger, President and CEO, National Wildlife Federation
       “World Deltas: Cooperative Ventures to Share Intellectual Capital
        and Build Political Will”
        Hon. Renee Jones-Bos, Ambassador, The Royal Netherlands Embassy
        Hon. Mary Landrieu, U. S. Senator, Louisiana
        Hon. Nancy Sutley, Chair, White House Council on Environmental Quality (invited)
       “Our Legacy, Our Responsibility”
        Hon. Ray Mabus, Secretary of the Navy (invited)

SUSTAINABILITY DEMONSTRATION SALON 3

Promising Practices

       “Building with Nature”
        Moderator: Dale Morris, Senior Advisor, Economic Division,
        The Royal Netherlands Embassy
        Panelists: Bregje van Weesenbeek, Deltares
        Jos Dijkman, Deltares Representative TBD, World Wildlife Fund, Netherlands

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

BREAK

10:45 AM – 1:00 PM

DESIGN CHARETTES II

1:15 PM – 1:30 PM

BREAK

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

SUSTAINABILITY DEMONSTRATION SALON 4

       “Geospatial Mapping for Decision-making & Public Participation”
        Allen Carroll, Chief Cartographer, National Geographic Society
       “Year of the Delta”
        Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Director, National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics
        Chris Paola, Principal Investigator, National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM

BREAK

2:45 PM – 5:00 PM

DESIGN CHARETTES III

8:30 AM – 11:15 AM

PLENARY SESSION

Featured Presentations

       “Ecosystem Assessments & Profiles”
        Dr. Ronald G. Blom, Discipline Program Manager, Solid Earth Science
        and Natural Hazards, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
       “Increasing Public Awareness of Coastal Sustainability”
        Ann Fumarolo, President and CEO, SciPort: Louisiana’s Science Center (invited)

Featured Address

       “World Deltas: Finding Common Ground”
        Dr. Vo Tong Xuan, Rector, An Giang University, Vietnam

Action Agenda For World Deltas

        (Results from Design Charette sessions presented)

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

LUNCHEON PLENARY SESSION
“AMERICA’S ENERGY COAST HONORS DELTAS2010”

Special Presentation

       “Challenge 2012: Moving Beyond Crisis”
        R. King Milling, Chairman, America’s WETLAND Foundation

Keynote Address

       “We have Seen the Future”
        Wayne Leonard, Chairman & CEO, Entergy

The America’s Energy Coast Policy Forum features results and recommendations from a
comprehensive Adaptation Study of the Energy Infrastructure within the Gulf Coast Area.

AMERICA’S ENERGY COAST POLICY FORUM
The Future of the U.S. Gulf Coast Energy Infrastructure in the Face of Changing Climate

PANEL & FEATURED PRESENTATIONS

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

       “Key Risk Drivers – Sea Level Rise & Hurricane Intensity”
        Thomas Knutson, Research Meteorologist, NOAA Geophysical
        Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
        Jeff Williams, Senior Research Coastal Marine Geologist (Ret.), USGS/ Woods Hole,
        Oceanographic Institution

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

       “Vulnerability of the Gulf Coast Energy Infrastructure”
        Mary Mujica, President, Shell Pipeline
        Rod West, Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Entergy
        Susan Tierney, Managing Principal, The Analysis Group

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

       “Adaptation Solutions for the Gulf Coast Energy Infrastructure”
        Andreas Spiegel, Senior Climate Advisor, Swissre
        Scott Nyquist, Director and Leader of Energy Practice, McKinsey & Company

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

CLOSING REMARKS

        “Importance of Protecting the Gulf Coast Energy Infrastructure”

5:15 PM - 6:30 PM

CLOSING COCKTAIL RECEPTION

9:00 AM- 10:15 AM

LEGISLATORS SESSION I (Program to be announced)

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

BREAK

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

LUNCHEON

Keynote

       “Why We Hate the Oil Companies: Straight Talk from an Energy Insider”
        John Hofmeister, Founder and Chief Executive, Citizens for Affordable Energy
        and Former President, Shell Oil Company

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

CLOSING REMARKS

1:45 PM

ADJOURNMENT