Centuries of Change: Human Transformation of the Lower Mississippi River
Schedule
8:30 - 9:00AM	REFRESHMENTS
9:00 - 9:05	Tulane official.  Introductory remarks
9:05 - 9:10	Colonel William L. Conner (District Engineer, New Orleans District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers).  Introductory remarks
9:10 - 9:15	Craig Colten (Southwest Texas State University).  Introductory remarks
9:15 - 9:35	Hank Bart. (Tulane University).  Fish Diversity in a Heavily Industrialized Reach of the Lower Mississippi River
9:35 - 9:55	T. R. Kidder (Tulane University).  Sea Level, Delta Formation, and Human History in the Mississippi River Delta
9:55 - 10:15	Christopher Morris (University of Texas at Arlington).  Impenetrable but Easy: The French Transformation of the Lower Mississippi Valley
10:15 - 10:35	Richard Condrey (Louisiana State University).  The Priest's Advice and the King's Greed:  The Autocratic Roots of Democratic Policy towards the Mississippi River System
10:35 - 10:45	BREAK
10:45 - 11:05	Donald W. Davis (Louisiana State University).  A Historical Perspective of Crevasses, Levees, and the Mississippi River
11:05 - 11:25	George Pabis (Methodist College).  When the Mississippi Lost its Gender: Engineers and the Language of Flood Control, 1846-1881
11:25-11:45	Ari Kelman (University of Oklahoma).   Forests and Other River Perils: Henry Shreve, the Mississippi Steamboat, and Public Memory
11:45 - 12:05	Edwin A. Lyon (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Tulane University) and Joan M. Exnicios (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers).  From Wetland Reclamation to Restoration: The LaBranche Wetlands
12:05 - 1:30	LUNCH
1:30 - 1:50	Craig Colten (Southwest Texas State University).  Too Much of a Good Thing: Industrial Pollution of the Lower Mississippi
1:50 - 2:10	Todd Shallat (Boise State University).  In the Wake of Hurricane Betsy: Disaster By Design
2:10 - 2:20	BREAK
2:20 - 2:40	Beverly Wright (Deep Delta Center for Environmental Justice).  Endangered Communities: Struggle for Environmental Justice in the Louisiana Chemical Corridor
2:40 - 3:00	Barbara Allen (University of Southwestern Louisiana).  Cluster Claims or the Popular Geography of Illness
3:00 - 3:10	Colin M. MacLachlan (Tulane University).  Closing Comments