Gulf Coast Climate Futures

Gulf Coast-Climate Futures is a day and a half symposium at Tulane University co-organized by the School of Architecture and the School of Engineering with the support of the ‘Gulf Futures Program’ led by the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) Gulf Research Program.
The symposium is open to faculty, students and the public at large. Participants from a diverse array of fields, including landscape architecture, architecture, urban planning, law, river and coastal engineering, civil engineering, geography, geology, mathematics, finance, real estate, and beyond are invited to attend.
The symposium occurs at Tulane University in the context of three new initiatives for the Gulf Coast Region: Research Studios at TuSA Tulane School of Architecture) funded by NASEM Gulf Research Program; the new interdisciplinary Master of Landscape + Engineering (MLA-MS RCSE) taught across Tulane School of Architecture and Tulane School of Sciences and Engineering; and the launch of the ‘Center on Climate Change and Urbanism’ at TuSA (Tulane School of Architecture).
The symposium’s aim is to discuss visions and tools to advance climate adaptation and decarbonization in order to limit global warming to “well below 2°C”, by 2030, as per the Paris Agreement targets.