Mississippi River Modeling and Analysis Forum
Workshop on hydrology and hydraulics, sediment transport, and ecosystem modeling as well as analysis tools used on the Mississippi River and its tributaries. 

Louisiana Sea Grant President's Forum on Meeting Coastal Challenges
Workshop held January 25, 2005 on coastal degradation and hurricane preparedness. Links to presentations and reports.

Mississippi Design Charette
Post-Katrina planning and design forum held in Biloxi, Mississippi October 11-17, 2005. A team of 100 architects gathered to develop ideas toward rebuilding the Mississippi Gulf Coast "the right way." Design scheme presentations are available online. 

Society for Social Studies of Science
Presentation at the 4S Conference (October, 2005): "Hurricane Katrina: Chaos at the Intersection of Science, Technology, Society and Nature."
Organizer: Benjamin Sims; Participants: Wiebe Bijker, Wes Shrum, Susan Leigh Star, Naomi Oreskes, Stephen Hilgartner and Jamey Wetmore

Multidsciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research
Seminar and Webcast (November 2, 2005): "Examining Extreme Events: Hurricane Katrina's Impact on Critical Infrastructure, Societal Systems, Public Health, and Environment."

ACORN
November 7-8, 2005: Community Forum on Rebuilding New Orleans, held at LSU.

Mayor's Institute on City Design
November 14, 2005: Special meeting of the Mayor's Institute on City Design devoted to rebuilding New Orleans.

Urban Land Institute Advisory Presentation
November 18, 2005: Urban Land Institute Presentation to the Bring New Orleans Back Commission. Link to powerpoint presentation of ULI's recommendations for rebuilding New Orleans.

Fannie Mae Foundation
November 29-30, 2005: Xavier University, the Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research, and the Tulane School of Architecture are hosting a 2 day workshop to provide an opportunity for residents, community-based organizations, environmental experts, architects, urban planners and government officials, to work together on long-term recovery strategies for neighborhoods, communities and the city as a whole.

American Geophysical Union 2005
Presentation at the 2005 AGU (December, 2005) Conference entitled "New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina: an Unnatural Disaster?" Presenters use a numerical model to explore how natural processes, economic development, hazard mitigation measures and policy decisions intertwine to produce long periods of quiescence punctuated by disasters of increasing magnitude.

Center for the Study of Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes
Fall, 2006 : The CSPHIH will soon be hosting an International Conference on the Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes. Conference will be held in downtown New Orleans.

Oct 4, 2005
Innovation Funders Network - Webinar Conference: "Hurricane Katrina: Innovative Information and Communications Responses"
http://www.innovationfunders.org/node/169

Oct 17, 2005
IPED - Shelter from the Storm: Housing the Displaced After Hurricane Katrina
http://www.ipedinc.net/conferences/Hurricane_Katrina_Housing_Conference.asp

Nov 10-12, 2005
APA - Louisiana Recovery and Rebuilding Conference
http://www.planning.org/louisianarecovery/index.htm
http://www.louisianarecoveryandrebuilding.org/

Nov 21, 2005
UCLA Law School Conference: Hurricane Katrina: From the Gulf Coast to the West Coast - A Cross Regional Consultation
http://www.law.ucla.edu/templates/printer_version.asp?type=news&page=20&recordid=50
http://www.sfbayview.com/neworleans/postkatrina111605.shtml
http://weblog.law.ucla.edu/crs/

Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 2005
Homeland Defense Journal Training Conference
Emergency Preparedness & Communications - Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina
Helping You to Prepare for and Respond to Any Complex Disaster
http://www.homelanddefensejournal.com/conf_EmergPrepComm.htm

Dec 1, 2005
University of Pennsylvania
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina: National Symposium on Risk and Disasters
http://www.upenn.edu/provost/katrina/nsrd.html

Dec 3, 2005
Brown University - Katrina: From Disaster to Renewal
http://www.brown.edu/web/katrina/colloquium.html

Jan 21, 2006
University of California, Santa Cruz - Reflections on Katrina: Place, Persistence, & the Lives of Cities
http://humwww.ucsc.edu/CultStudies/EVENTS/Winter06/Katrina.html

Feb 2-3, 2006
University of Pennsylvania Institute for Urban Research Conference-
Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v52/n20/penniur.html

Feb. 16, 2006
The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI), Art Forum and the Tulane University (School of Architecture)
Newer Orleans - A Shared Space
http://www.nai.nl/e/press/060203_newerorleans.html

Feb 18, 2005
W. Haywod Burns Environmental Education Center - Healthy Urban Environments: Katrina, a Case Study
http://www.w-haywoodburns.org/2006%20Conference/Katrina%20Conference%20Homepage.htm

Feb 21, 2006
A Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program Forum
Rebuilding After Katrina: Forming the Federal-State-Local Partnership for Southern Louisiana
http://www.brookings.edu/comm/events/20060221.htm

March 10, 2006
University of Arizona - Hurricane Katrina: The Storm that Toppled FEMA
http://uanews.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/UAMasterCalendar.woa/2/wa/viewDetails?EventID=17081

May 16-17, 2006
Restoration 2006 - A new conference focused on community and economic recovery in the wake of a natural or man-made disaster.
http://www.restoration2006.org/en/index.aspx

May 21-24, 2006
American Institute of Hydrology Annual Conference
http://www.aihydro.org/conference.htm