Below are links to the oral presentations given during the Sea Level Rise Conference at the Omni Bayfront.  If you were an oral presenter and would like to modify the presentation displayed or have it removed please contact us at kenneth.rainer@tamucc.edu. 

Porfirio Alvarez-Torres:  Incorporating Risk and Vulnerability Factors in the Land and Sea Use Planning Process in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea (Mexico)

Austin Becker:  Climate Change Impacts on Ports:  A Global Survey Preliminary Results

Virginia Burkett:  Causes, Rates, and Regional Variability of Sea-Level Rise

Margaret Davidson:  Sea Level Rise and a Living Coast:  Engaging Communities in Dialogue about the Future

Richard Davis, Jr.:  Geologic History of Sea Level Change in the Gulf of Mexico

Quenton Dokken:  Small Sea Changes:  BIG Infrastructure Impacts

Jorge Euan-Avila:  Possible Impacts of the Sea Level Rise in the Yucatán Peninsula

Stephen Gill:  Sea-Level Measurement, Determination, and Application in the Gulf of Mexico

Pamela Hallock:  Sea Level Rise and Coral Reefs:  Predicting Responses

Jen Irish:  Integrating Sea Level Rise with Hurricane Flood Level Statistics

John Jacob:  Wetland Transgressions and Human Misdeeds:  Topography, Development, and Sea Level Rise on the Gulf Coast

Mark Maslin:  Climate Change, Human Health and the Additional Impact of Sea-Level Rise

James Morris:  The Limits of Salt Marsh Adaptation to Rising Sea Level

Timothy Mulvaney:  Municipal Exactions at the Water's Edge

Michael Orbach:  Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Sea Level Rise:  Our Migrating Coasts and Human Communities

Roberto Padilla-Hernández:  Early Warning Systems for Extreme Hydro-meteorological Events for Tamaulipas South Coast, Mexico (SATEME)

Margaret Peloso:  Introduction to Legal and Policy Issues Associated with Promoting Coastal Resilience

Nathaniel Plant:  The Impact of Sea-Level Rise on Changing Coastlines

Tim Reeder:  Flood Risk and Sea Level Rise in London and the UK

Antonio Rodriguez:  Holocene Sea-Level Change and the Evolution of Coastal Depositional Systems:  Implications for the Future

Hipolito Rodriguez:  Human, Economic and Policy Impacts of Sea Level Rise in Mexico

Thomas Ruppert:  Reducing "Investment-backed Expectations" in Coastal Areas:  Rising Seas and Falling Expectations

James G. Titus:  Pick the Response Pathway Now!

David Vaughan (Seminar Presentation):  Update on Global Sea Level Projections Since IPCC Fourth Assessment

David Vaughan (Public Presentation):  Melting Ice and Rising Seas:  Perceptions, Risk, and Reality

Carlos Welsh:  Sea Level Rise Planning in the State of Veracruz

Dan Whittle:  Sea Level Rise Policies in Cuba

James Wilkins:  Truth or Consequences:  Do States of Denial about Sea Level Rise = Government Liability?

David Yoskowitz:  Socio-Economic Impact of Relative Sea Level Rise in Galveston Bay

Jorge Zavala-Hildago:  Sea-Level Trends Along Mexico's Coast

Roger Zimmerman:  SL Rise Impacts on Fisheries and Ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico