Public Education + Outreach

• Inland from the Coast: A multi-scalar approach to regional climate change responses

  Gathering and disseminating local ecological knowledge about landscape functionality Providing high quality, accessible information on current and future environmental conditions to influence community decision-making Evaluating past events to support adaptation...
  Research, Capacity Building, Visual Communication, Community Planning
• The Baker Canal Corridor Project

  The Baker Canal Corridor Project will create a culturally sensitive collaborative that brings environmental projects, entrepreneurship, research and education to communities in a manner that encourages a comprehensive understanding and...
  Research
• Environmental Communication for Coastal Louisiana

  The project aims to develop interdisciplinary knowledge of best practices in coastal environmental communication, using research and expertise in environmental psychology, coastal sustainability, community resilience, mass communication, and public relations....
  Research
• WA | VE: Waterway Information for Vessels Smartphone App

  Develop the technology for commercial fishermen to access various datasets through one viewing platform on their mobile device. Outside of hurricane season the app provides additionally relevant information about waterways...
  Research
• In the Mississippi Delta: Constructing with Water 2010 Venice Biennale Project
  Design Speculation
• Louisiana Community Resilience Institute

  The project goals include 1) build upon the foundation of LRAP; 2) help the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) to connect community and large scale environmental planning; 3)...
  Community Planning
• Louisiana Resiliency Assistance Program (LRAP)

  LRAP was founded and developed by the CSS with the state’s Office of Community Development – Disaster Recovery Unit (OCD-DRU) and with funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and...
  Community Planning
• Vulnerability and Resilience in Threatened Coastal Louisiana Communities

  This study examines the hypothesis that a large part of individual and community resilience results from strong but dispersed spatial networks that link people socially and economically across the broader...
  Community Planning
• Center for River Studies and Exhibition Design

  The design of a 9,000 square foot exhibition space and development of exhibit content on coastal protection and restoration to be housed in the Center for River Studies.
  Visual Communication
• Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) Visualization and Communication Program

  The program is intended to educate and foster an understanding of CPRA’s efforts to implement a complex system of coastal community sustaining and restoration measures that will ensure the reduction...
  Visual Communication
• On Land / With Water: A Mobile Museum

  Design and construct Mobile Environmental Research Vessels (MERVs) to study the social and environmental relationships of Bayou Lafourche, support research methods, and create field studies courses in history, architecture, and...
  Visual Communication
• DredgeFest Collaborative

  The Dredge Research Collaborative (DRC) investigates human sediment handling practices, through publications, an event series, and various other projects. DredgeFest Louisiana was a three-day symposium field expedition, and speculative design...
  Visual Communication