Annual Meeting 2025

The 2025 Gulf Resilience Community of Practice annual meeting was held on June 3-5, 2025 in Houma, Louisiana at the LUMCON Blue Works Facility.

Follow-up materials from the meeting
Grant Workshops Report

Registration
Registration (NOW OPEN)
If you are a local government employee or tribal leader, your registration will be covered (FREE!). If you are a student, you can register for a reduced rate of $50. Please contact Dottie Reid at [email protected] for more information.

Poster Session (NEW!)
Download the Call for Abstracts
Deadline: Friday, April 25, 2025
Please contact Melissa Daigle at [email protected] with questions.

Meeting Agenda (NEW!)
Download the Participant Agenda

Tools Café (NEW!)
The Tools Café will include GIS mapping to identify shelter needs and vulnerabilities, the Integrated Water Portal and FloodVision®.
Download the Tools Café summary, including presenters, tools and session descriptions.

Lodging Options
Both of these hotels have room blocks set aside for the CoP under "Louisiana Sea Grant" or "Gulf CoP".

Homewood Suites
142 Citiplace Drive
Houma, LA 70360
Book Here

Comfort Inn & Suites 
1530 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
Houma, LA 70360
Book Here

Airports
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (1 Terminal Dr., Kenner, LA 70062)
39 miles away from the meeting and hotels.

Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (9430 Jackie Cochran Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70807)
70 miles away from the meeting and hotels.

Lafayette Regional Airport (200 Terminal Drive, Lafayette, LA 70508)
88 miles away from the meeting and hotels.

Gulfport/ Biloxi International Airport (14035 Airport Rd, Gulfport, MS 39503)
114 miles away from the meeting and hotels.

Parking
There is limited free parking at the Blue Works Facility. We encourage you to carpool from the hotels if possible.