A View from Above: Mid-Breton Sediment Diversion is crucial to Louisiana’s future
A View from Above: Mid-Breton Sediment Diversion is crucial to Louisiana’s future
The scale of Louisiana’s land loss crisis – and the work being done to preserve it – can be hard to grasp from the ground. One of the best education and advocacy tools for coastal restoration is to fly people over the coast to see the scale and impacts of our land loss crisis. While we can’t bring everyone up on a plane, we can do our best to bring that perspective to you here. In this blog series, we …
An Ever-changing River: Examining Where Land Meets Water
Based in New Orleans, Virginia Hanusik is a visual artist whose projects explore the relationship between landscape, culture and the built environment. Through her photography, she manages to beautifully capture the visual narrative of climate change on the Mississippi River and the surrounding areas. Her work has been featured internationally across major publications like The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and National Geographic, to name a few. Her dedication to telling the story of the delta continued last year in her …
Building Community in Her Own Backyard: Introducing Alex Jiles
Our Staff Spotlights blog series is dedicated to highlighting our talented team members who are helping advance restoration efforts for coastal Louisiana. This week we are spotlighting Alex Jiles, Senior Outreach Coordinator for the National Wildlife Federation. Alex joined the Restore the Mississippi River Delta (MRD) family following her role as Volunteer Service Advisor at the University of New Orleans (UNO), serving in the AmeriCorps NCCC as a Team Leader/Corps Member based in Sacramento, California, and so much more! We …
From Louisiana’s Bayou to Williams College and Back: Introducing Chief Devon Parfait
Introducing Staff Spotlights! A new blog series dedicated to highlighting our talented team members who are helping advance restoration efforts for coastal Louisiana. This week we are spotlighting Devon Parfait, Coastal Resilience Analyst for Environmental Defense Fund. Devon joined the Restore the Mississippi River Delta (MRD) family after gaining a range of experience in everything from developing media and GIS projects with the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to conducting fieldwork on shoreline change in the Gulf Islands …