Delta Discovery

06/19/2024

Announcing the June 21, 2024 Gathering

Please join the Bayou Culture Collaborative for our June gathering of people and organizations focused on preserving Louisiana’s heritage and examining the effects of land loss on local culture.

REGISTER HERE for the meeting:
https://nicholls-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUoc-qqqDMsH9NCntJj864Iwk0IZNk9DdwB

When: Friday, June 21, 2024, from noon to 1:30 p.m. Central
Speaker: Jessica Dandridge, The Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans
Title: “Community led adaptation and mitigation as the core to water justice and climate resiliency strategies”
Where: Via Zoom, free

Jessica Dandridge, executive director of The Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans, has dedicated her life to community advocacy and campaign development for organizations seeking to be socially, economically, and culturally inclusive. She will talk about community led adaptation and mitigation as the core to water justice and climate resiliency strategies during the June 2024 Bayou Culture Gathering.

Sign up to receive announcements about registering and other information at https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/HaCPJe8/bayouculturegatherings.

The Louisiana Folklore Society offers these gatherings to share perspectives on the human dimension of coastal land loss. In partnership with the Center for Bayou Studies at Nicholls State Univ. and the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center, the Bayou Culture Gatherings are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the Office of Cultural Development and the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, and the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program.

Recordings of previous Gatherings are posted here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6XX24FtEoSMZJgjUt8TYaA

For information about the Gatherings, contact BCC at [email protected].

06/19/2024

Dave McNamara shares the Tale of Two Deltas trip. Please be sure to share!

The Delta of the Mississippi River changes with efforts to control its flow leading to land loss in some places and new land in others.

05/23/2024

Join Our Team as the Coastal Restoration Director!

Are you passionate about preserving our coastal ecosystem, scientific research and engaging with the community? Do you have a background in environmental science and a knack for leadership? We are looking for a dedicated and experienced individual to join our team as the Coastal Restoration Director!

For more information: Please click link below.
https://www.plaqueminesparish.com/jobs.aspx

04/26/2024

Devin Brown is embarking on a journey to kayak from the source of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico. If successful, she would be the first Black woman to solo the length of the river.

03/18/2024

The French language in Louisiana is most heavily associated with the Cajun and Creole parishes of Southwest and Central Louisiana, but there are other Franco...

02/26/2024

The young male known as M161 kitty-paddled his way through chilly waters full of orcas, raising questions about the animals' potential range.

02/24/2024

Looking for something fun today? Check out Cook-Off for the Coast

01/06/2024

IMMS recently named a rehabilitated and released tagged sea turtle “Spraggins,” proudly named after MDMR’s Executive Director, Joe Spraggins. Track “Spraggins,” and other released sea turtles, at imms.org/track-our-turtles-3.

The satellite tags attached by IMMS are funded by the Tidelands MDMR Endangered Species Act funds. Other sea turtles tagged and monitored in coordination between MDMR and IMMS can be found at dmr.ms.gov/protected-species.

12/18/2023

This is a great opportunity.

12/16/2023

Barrier islands like the Outer Banks are important … and at risk

12/16/2023

10/18/2023

Boyce Upholt captures the essence of Chefs on Boats for the Bitter Southerner.

Massive walls separate the city of New Orleans from the marshes and estuaries that have helped make this place a culinary marvel. Troy Gilbert's Chefs On Boats takes restaurant workers beyond the barricades.

10/15/2023

Ben is a talented photographer and just a really good human. Check out his new book.

Ben Depp went far and above when he decided to document Louisiana’s coastal land loss – literally.

09/16/2023

Villa Albertine is a program where artists and thinkers from the French speaking world spent time in the United States. In January of 2022 Delta Discovery served as a guide for Nicolas Floch, who takes otherworldly underwater photos. We outfitted New Delta, our skiff, with an arm to retrieve his underwater camera equipment and spent serval weeks traversing the bayous, swamps, and gulf around Louisiana with Nicolas.

In this podcast, learn how the River’s color––which varies shockingly from vivid green to rusty red and electric yellow––reveals both clues about a region’s historical underpinning and the anthropological, climatic, geopolitical, and cultural state of the lands it passes through. Discover the similarities and differences between the Mississippi Delta and the Rhone River in France, which are both situated in industrial areas and have been subject to pollution. Join us as we dive into the fascinating world of underwater landscapes with Nicolas Floc’h.

Be sure to listen to some of the other artists work too. France has been a long-time supporter and partner of the United States. These cultural exchanges excite us and the art is supreme!

States is Villa Albertine’s multidimensional platform for artists and thinkers from around the world to grapple with today’s biggest questions. Through an online and print magazine, and now a podcast, States delves into the intricacies of the American cultural landscape while exploring diverse s...

09/08/2023

After the lower Mississippi began pouring through and enlarging Neptune Pass in 2019, sediment began flowing into a sand-and-silt-starved Delta bay. Now the Army Corps of Engineers — breaking with tradition — is considering letting at least part of the river have its way.

08/19/2023

6 image vertical pano of The Mitchell River silt jetties are an unusually long, thin landform in the Gippsland Lakes region in Victoria, Australia. A type of digitate delta, they have been formed over thousands of years by sediment deposition from the Mitchell River during periods of low water flow and subsequent wash-through during periods of high water flow. The long narrow banks of silt thus formed extend more than eight kilometres east into Lake King. The south bank is navigable by car from Eagle Point through to the very easternmost tip at Point Dawson

08/14/2023

This was a great trip!

07/18/2023

07/15/2023

07/13/2023

At the end of a gravel road in St. Amant lies an ordinary-looking ranch house. But in the laundry room, there’s some Jurassic Park-style stuff going on. Next to the

05/28/2023

A fisherman's haven on Grandpaw Bayou

05/21/2023

I want to believe.

Researchers used high-flying drones and motion-sensitive trail cameras to capture photos of the elusive creature.

05/16/2023

Resurrecting the Cajun Prairie

05/11/2023

These folks are traveling the country looking to find the threads that tie us all together. Be on the lookout for their new book.

The initiative is part of the project “A Peace of My Mind” by John Noltner, who traveled across the United States with his wife in a van for two years.

04/19/2023

Louisiana’s indigenous tribes have been protecting the coast for generations — and they’re still fighting to have their voices heard

04/13/2023

Local folks are leading the way on efforts to live within the bounds of nature.

Americans use ancient wisdom and new technology to fight extreme weather.

03/31/2023

03/29/2023