Occupation: Associate Designer, Dana Brown & Associates
Hometown: Covington
Age: 23
If you find yourself eating oysters with Amy Norval, she’s going to be the only one at the table tempted to pack the empty shells in her purse.
“I just want to save them all,” says the 2013 LSU graduate, whose lauded senior capstone project for her Landscape Architecture degree lays out an ambitious oyster shell recycling program that she and others say will battle coastal erosion—the shells make remarkable, environmentally friendly barriers—and provide a natural aggregate building material.