09:30-09:40

Welcome Speech

Quinn Li

(Dean of College of the Environment and Ecology)

09:40-10:20

Science, Policy and Institutional Development to Restore the Mississippi River Delta: Role of Sea Grant and University Research Institutions

Robert Twilley

(Louisiana Sea Grant College Program; Department of Oceanography and Coastal Science, Louisiana State University)

10:20-11:00

Sea Grant Programs of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Science and Outreach: Understanding the Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Emily Maung-Douglass

(Louisiana Sea Grant College Program, Louisiana State University)

11:00-11:10

Break

11:10-11:50

Adaptation of mangrove: a molecular approach

Quinn Li

(College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University)

11:50-12:20

Discussion