Hurricane Isabel in Perspective Conference

The conference was a success with many excellent presentations and discussions. The proceedings volume is now available from the Chesapeake Research Consortium website. If you have any Hurricane Isabel resources or comments you'd like to share, please visit our discussion forum.

Mark Trice gave a seminar to summarize the findings presented at the conference. This seminar on Friday 28th January, 2005 at the Chesapeake Bay Program Office, 410 Severn Avenue (Suite 109), Annapolis MD, was part of the Chesapeake Bay Seminar Series. The presentation is available in multimedia (slides and audio) and PDF formats from the Chesapeake Bay Seminar Series page.

November 15 - 17, 2004. Maritime Institute, Linthicum Heights, Maryland

Hurricane Isabel—a Category 2 hurricane—made landfall between Cape Lookout and Cape Hatteras on North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Thursday, September 18, 2003. Throughout the next several days, Isabel’s destructive effects were felt throughout the heart of the Chesapeake Bay and the entire Mid-Atlantic region. This conference is being organized to discuss the many factors that exacerbated Isabel's impact on the Chesapeake Bay ecosystems and its coastal communities.

For more details on the impacts of sea level rise, land subsidence and ground water extraction on the flooding and damage caused by Hurricane Isabel, visit our Hurricane Isabel and Sea Level Rise page.