Team 1: Designing for future hurricanes and storm surges: past occurences and predictions, size variation, evolution, and probability, assessing risk, models, evacuation plans.

Team 2: Designing for global warming and sea-level rise: predictions, implications for the Gulf Coast and New Orleans, in particular.

Team 3: Designing the future of wetlands: role in storm dissipation, loss, reclamation and cost, relocation of people.

Team 4: Levee construction and design: improved/alternate technologies, evaluation of current solution (higher, thicker, longer), change in regulations regarding control of levees, role of Army Corps of Engineers

Team 5: City design: Race, class, and neighborhoods in New Orleans: history, preservation of culture and diversity, current redevelopment plans, social and environmental justice.

Team 6: Government Involvement: past, present, and future subsidies, projects, recovery operations, and interventions; spending equitably and wisely, class issues; roles and relationships of local, state, and federal agencies, corruption.

Team 7: Insurance: costs for Gulf Coast and other coastal US cities, ambiguities in covered damages, government involvement, building codes to minimize damage in catastrophe.

Combined Team 8 and 9: Designing a system to evaluate and monitor geology: subsidence, oil and gas; long-term outlook for the Mississippi River Delta, causes of subsidence, ability to predict the geologic future of the Gulf Coast. Also, entire Mississippi River system: history and future predictions of flooding, economic importance, long-term plans to control the river, maintenance techniques and costs to keep river in its present course, flood preparation along the river.

All Teams: Design an integrated plan for the future of New Orleans. Estimate the cost---yes, it will be expensive! Interact with other teams