• Interpreting the Cultural and Natural Resources of the Mississippi River Valley.  October 8-9, 2003.
• Comparing Rivers: The Mississippi and the Niger.  2002
• Mississippi River Heritage Tourism.  2001.
• Draining New Orleans. 1999
• Centuries of Change: Human Transformation of the Lower Mississippi River. 1998.  [Craig Colten published a collection of the conference papers as Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs (University of Pittsburg Press, 2001)]
• Cultural Heritage of the Lower Mississippi Valley in Louisiana.  1997

Conference Organizers

• Edwin Lyon
• Joan Exnicios
• Colin M. MacLachlan

Randall Lee Gibson (1832-1892) played a major role in the foundation of both Tulane University and the Mississippi River Commission.  He graduated from Yale in 1853 and received a law degree from the University of Louisiana in 1855  After traveling in Europe he was a planter in Louisiana until the Civil War.  He enlisted in the Confederate Army and rose to the rank of brigadier general.  He was a trustee of the Peabody und and a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution.  He served as a Democrat in  the House of Representatives from 1875 to 1993 and was elected a United States Senator in 1882 and served until he died in 1892.  Gibson  was the agent of Paul Tulane in founding Tulane University and was president of the board of administrators.  Gibson Hall, the main administrative building at Tulane, is named after Randall Gibson.  (Information on Gibson from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000165 and http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/secret/famous/gibsontree.html)