Editor’s note: Independence Day 2009 seems an appropriate time to wax philosophical so here’s a new wrinkle for LaCoastPost - a poetry post. WS Merwin, a distinguished octogenarian American poet who restored a piece of coastal habitat in Maui, inspired the addition of Coastal culture as a new category of discourse.
‘Long evolved clarity’ … Pulitzer poetry prize [...]
Editor’s note: the primary subject of this post is the obvious disconnect between the official coastal protection and restoration program and geoscience, which is exemplified by a new study by geologists Michael Blum and Harry Roberts showing that the Mississippi River no longer carries enough sediment to restore the delta. On June 30 the Daily [...]
As I write this on June 26, National Public Radio (NPR) is featuring three headlines: (1) the death at fifty of Michael Jackson; (2) today’s meeting on climate change between President Obama and German Prime Minister Angela Merkel; and (3) the ongoing crucial debate in the US House over a 1,200 page bill that would [...]
Now that my combo birthday/father’s day has signaled the beginning of summer I’m spotlighting two reports. Both of them have already been listed in Coastal Scuttlebutt but email correspondents keep sending them to me, so they obviously justify more emphasis.
The first is a new government document on climate change (cc) that further seals the case [...]
With great delight I call your attention to an ongoing student team project known as Mission 2010 that is being carried out by students of the class of 2010 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).*
This project, conceived in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, involves an innovative course to train students in the department of earth, atmospheric and planetary [...]
Editor’s note: It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.* Best, because I have never seen as much local and national interest** in the future of south Louisiana. Worst, because the challenges continue to outpace the interest.
I’m drawing a comparison between two critically important ecological engineering coastal projects that have been cussed and [...]