{"id":54,"date":"2019-03-04T02:10:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T02:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2018\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2019-03-26T20:51:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:51:25","slug":"2018-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/2018\/2018-annual-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Aug. 5-10, more than 3,500 ecologists, educators, students, researchers, enthusiasts and more gathered in New Orleans for six days of networking, celebrating and sharing science. The meeting’s theme was Extreme events, ecosystem resilience and human well-being<\/strong>, and it was honored throughout the meeting.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Local Impacts<\/h3>\n

The Opening Plenary included greetings from President Rich Pouyat and Executive Director Catherine O’Riordan as well as Rep.\u00a0Walter J. Leger III, speaker pro tempore of the Louisiana House of Representatives, who was awarded with the\u00a0Regional Policy Award<\/a> for his work on coastal restoration while representing districts in New Orleans.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The policy plenary was keynoted by Robert Twilley, executive director of the Louisiana Sea Grant College Program and distinguished professor in the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Science at Louisiana State University, who presented “Ecosystem design approaches in a highly engineered landscape of the Mississippi River Delta.”<\/p>\n

You can watch the entire plenary, which was also live-steamed, here:<\/p>\n

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