2024 Gulf Coast Climate Futures Symposium

A two-day symposium at Tulane University, Nov. 1-2, 2024, organized by the School of Architecture, in collaboration with the School of Engineering and financial support from the Gulf Futures Program, led by the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) Gulf Research Program.

Symposium Overview:

The 2024 Gulf Coast Climate Futures Symposium is open to faculty, students, and staff and the public at large. Participants from diverse fields, including landscape architecture, architecture, urban planning, preservation, river and coastal engineering, civil engineering, geography, social innovation and social entrepreneurship, finance, real estate, environmental humanities, and beyond, are invited to attend.

Registration is required. Please register by Oct. 25, 2024. 

This symposium occurs at Tulane University in the context of three new initiatives for the Gulf Coast Region: Research Studios at Tulane School of Architecture (TuSA), funded by the NASEM Gulf Research Program; the new interdisciplinary dual degree Master of Landscape + Engineering (MLA-MS RCSE), taught across Tulane School of Architecture and Tulane School of Science 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.