Breaux Act Newsflash - Barrier Islands Comprehensive Monitoring Program (BICM) Workshop #2
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
8:30 a.m.
University of New Orleans
Lindy C. Boggs Conference Center
http://conferences.uno.edu/directions.htm
Information: Ashley Tebbe @ 504.280.4018
Sponsors: LCA S&T Office
LA Department of Natural Resources
US Army Corps of Engineers
University of New Orleans-Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental
Sciences (PIES)
US Geological Survey
Please participate in the second of a series of workshops to introduce,
discuss, and refine the Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program
(BICM) funded by the LCA Science & Technology Office, with matching funds
from UNO's Pontchartrain Institute and USGS.
This second workshop is to be a working discussion of the tasks initiated,
tasks completed, the preliminary results, available products, and the
future issues, directions, and products for users that the program should
focus on.
The LCA study recommended the establishment of a coordinated System-wide
Assessment and Monitoring Program (SWAMP). This program was to be built
upon existing coast-wide efforts such as CRMS-wetlands under CWPPRA, as
well as new efforts. This BICM program has been initiated under the LCA
S&T office to establish baseline conditions for the barrier shoreline
after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as well as refine the methods and
products for use by the public in multiple programs beyond LCA, such as
CWPPRA, CIAP, and DNR's Barrier Island Maintenance Program. Additionally,
this serves as a test case for final refinement of the program and
implementation Additionally, s and products will be presented for comment
on final products and dataset development for public use, history of a
complete BICM program.
Currently, bathymetric and Topographic (LiDAR) datasets have been
collected post-Katrina and Rita for the sandy shorelines of the coast.
Also, historic data sets from 1880's, and 1920-30's have been adjusted for
analysis of bathymetric and topographic changes. Shoreline changes have
been analyzed for historic (1880's), long-term (1930's), short-term
(1998), and near-term (2004) comparisons to the 2005 (post-Katrina and
Rita) shorelines. All these datasets and products will be presented for
comment and made publicly available.
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