Louisiana GoMRI Showcase

Commemorating 10 years of GoMRI science in Louisiana

Maung-Douglass, Twilley, Gallaudet – Commemorating GoMRI in LA – Welcome and Opening Remarks

Rita Colwell – The catalyst and beginnings of Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative

Laura Bowie – The GOMA-GoMRI relationship

Chuck Wilson – The breadth of GoMRI science

Richard Shaw – Research in Louisiana Perspective from the GoMRI Research Board

Panel: Colwell, Wilson, Bowie, Shaw, Benoit – Challenges, lessons learned, perspectives

Maung-Douglass, Dauzat, Gasdiel-Goldberg, Hanzalik – Sharing oil spill science in Louisiana

Benoit and Sempier – GoMRI-Sea Grant partnership

Finucane, John, Rabalais, Sidorovskaia, Maung-Douglass – Carrying out oil spill science in Louisiana & Closing words

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Robert Twilley, Executive Director Louisiana Sea Grant/LSU
RDML Tim Gallaudet, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Deputy NOAA Administrator
Rita Colwell, Chair of the GoMRI Research Board
Laura Bowie, Executive Director, Gulf of Mexico Alliance
Chuck Wilson, GoMRI Chief Scientific Officer
Richard Shaw, GoMRI Research Board member from the state of Louisiana, Louisiana State University
Debi Benoit, GoMRI Research Board member from the state of Louisiana, Nicholls State University
Jeff Dauzat, Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality
MST3 Dakota Gasdiel-Goldberg, U.S. Coast Guard
James Hanzalik, Clean Gulf Associates
Stephen Sempier, Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant
Emily Maung-Douglass, Louisiana Sea Grant/LSU
Vijay John, Consortium for the Molecular Engineering of Dispersant Systems (C-MEDS), Tulane University
Melissa Finucane, Consortium for Resilient Gulf Communities (CRGC), RAND Corporation
Nancy Rabalais, Coastal Waters Consortium (CWC), Louisiana State University
Natalia Sidorovskaia, Littoral Acoustic Demonstration Center-Gulf Ecological Monitoring & Modeling (LADC-GEMM), University of Louisiana at Lafayette