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Appendix E: Biographical Sketches for the Committee on the Review of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration (LACPR) Program
Pages 53-57

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... He works in the area of coastal engineering, with specific interests in numerical modeling of coastal processes, including nearshore hydrodynamics. His current interests are water wave modeling, tsunamis and their impact on shorelines, and the interaction of water waves with the sea bed, specifically mud bottoms.
From page 54...
... He has been an author or editor on 14 books and published extensively in planning and policy journals including, among others, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. He is currently principal investigator on a study of urban growth boundaries funded by the National Science Foundation and P.I.
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... Dr. Groat has over 25 years of involvement in geological studies, energy and minerals resource assessment, groundwater occurrence and protection, geomorphic processes and landform evolution in desert areas, and coastal studies.
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... Heidi Nepf is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She focuses her research on physical mechanisms which affect transport and fate of contaminants and nutrients in lakes, wetlands, and coastal zones, as well as vegetated flow dynamics.
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... He has worked on a number of studies including Desalination: A National Perspective, the Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States, and the Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress.


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