Monica Humphrey Burr

Assistant Professor of Environmental Science

Alcorn State University

Bottomland hardwood reforestation, wetland reforestation, and wetland ecology. Undergraduate research and mentoring.

Robert A. Collins

Professor of Urban Studies and Public Policy

Dillard University

Coorelations between urban planning and health measures using census data. Analyszing census data and census tract maps.

Paul Kim

Associate Professor

Grambling State University

Biomedical sciences, inflammatory diseases, and metagenomics. Undergraduate research and mentoring.

Sadik Khan

Associate Professor

Jackson State University

FEM modeling of the geo-infastructure, slope stability analysis, and remedial measure of failed slopes.

Brent Thoma

Assistant Professor of Biology and Director of Marine Science

Jackson State University

Phylogenetic systematics, taxonomy, and natural history of marine malacostracan crustaceans. Population connectivity and dispersal is marine crustaceans, particularly in groups lacking clear dispersal mechanisms.

Sam Bentley

Professor and Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology

Louisiana State University

Coastal and marine sedimentology, sediment radiochemistry, fine sediment dynamics on continental shelves, bioturbation, predictive modeling of sedimentary fabric and structures.

Traci Birch

Assistant Professor, School of Architecture | Associate Director, Coastal Ecosystem Design Studio

Louisiana State University

Coastal planning, methods for community risk reduction, community resiliance, and ecosystem management.

Dominique Garello

Instructor of Record in Geology and Geophysics Department

Louisiana State University

Matthew Hiatt

Assistant Professor

Louisiana State University

Coastal hydrology, environmental fluid dynamics, harmful algal blooms, water transport timescales in deltas and wetlands, hydrological connectivity in coastal environments, network analysis, nearshore waves.

Navid Jafari

Associate Professor

Louisiana State University

Civil and environmental engineering.

Giulio Mariotti

Associate Professor

Louisiana State University

Ecogeomorphology, bioecology, and processes that shape costal environments.

Paul Miller

Assistant Professor

Louisiana State University

Coastal meteorology and hydroclimatology.

Tracy Quirk

Associate Professor

Louisiana State University

Wetland ecology and restoration including plant and microbial processes, nutrient and carbon cycling and accretion dynamics, human impact on wetland ecosystems, and organic matter and nutrient linkages between coastal wetlands and rivers, estuaries, and submerged aquatic ecosystems.

Tyrslai Menyaee’ Williams-Carter

Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor of Mentorship, Education, and Research

Louisiana State University

STEM projects and development for historically uderrepresented groups. Outreach for K-12, undergraduate, and graduate students.

Carol A. Wilson

Associate Professor

Louisiana State Univesrity

Quantifying ecophysical processes that shape deltaic and coastal wetlands, spefically how biology, gology, and water interact to create and maintain functioning landscapes.

Kehui Xu

Professor

Louisiana State University

Coastal restoration; sediment diversion; sediment dredging and management, geological oceanography, coastal morphodynamics, observation and numerical modeling of sediment transport, sedimentary geology, coastal processes.

Z. George Xue

Associate Professor

Louisiana State University

Physical-bio-geochemical modeling, costal ocean carbon cycling, and coupled atmospheric-hydrological modeling.

Jennifer "Murt" Conover

Associate Director of Education and Outreach

LUMCON

Marine educatur at LUMCON since 2002. Coordinator of Costal Waters Consortium's education outreach. Commissioner for Louisiana Environmental Education Commission.

Brian Roberts

Executive Director and Chief Scientist

LUMCON

Human impacts to ecosystems and restoratio efforts.

Jacqueline McComb

Assistant Resarch Professor of Pland and Soil Science

Southern University

Biogeochemistry and phytoremediation, coupled with agritechnology to aid understanding the interrelationships between agricultural landscapes and ecosystems.

Scott A. Hemmerling

Senior Research Scientist

The Water Institute of the Gulf

Climate adaptation, community resiliance, quantifying the social value of ecosystem restoration projects, cultural geography.

Mead Allison

Professor and Chair of RCSE

Tulane University

Sediment dynamics of modern environments including lowland river, deltaic, wetland, estuarine, and continental shelf settings as well as examination of the late Holocene sediment record in coastal settings.

Soenke Dangendorf

Assistant Professor

Tulane University

Sea level change and variability, spatial and temporal sea level and climate reconstructions, sea-level budgets, extreme value statistics, time series modelling, design water levels, climate change, detection & attribution, proxy reconstructions.

Emily Farrer

Associate Professor

Tulane University

Plant ecology, plant-microbe interactoins, golbal change biology, invasive species, wetland ecology, population genetics, and botany.

Kelin Hu

Research Assistant Professor

Tulane University

Modeling of storm surge, hurricane waves, sediment transports and morphological developments in coastal and estuarine areas.

Sukari Ivester

Senior Professor of Practice

Tulane University

Barbara A. Kleiss

Research Professor

Tulane University

Water chemistry of aquatic systems, wetlands biogeochemistry, restoration of rivers and wetlands, and interdisciplinary studies of the Mississippi River and its floodplains.

Joshua Lewis

Research Associate Professor

Tulane University

Ehab A. Meselhe

Professor

Tulane University

Computer modeling of coastal wetland, estuarine, and riverine systems, particularly integrating physical, ecological and social processes for inland watersheds riverine, deltaic and coastal systems.

Annalisa Molini

Associate Professor

Tulane University

Hydroclimatology; Physically-based/stochastic models for ecohydrology, hydrometeorology, land/vegetation-atmosphere interactions; Plant hydraulics; Boundary layer meteorology; Modeling of extreme hydrological and environmental processes.

Michelle Hewlett Sanchez

Senior Professor of Practice

Tulane University

Research interests include K-12 STEM Education.

Simone Domingue

Research Associate Professor

Tulane ByWater Institute

Environmental sociology and critical scholar of climate adaptation.

Thomas Wahl

Associate Professor

The University of Central Florida

Sustainability of human-natural systems in coastal zones, coastal engineering design concepts, extreme value analysis, climate adaptation and resilience, integrated coastal vulnerability and risk assessment.

Robert Miller

Assistant Professor and Assistant Director

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

FEM modeling of the geo-infastructure, slope stability analysis, and remedial measure of failed slopes.

Mustafa Kemal Cambazoglu

Assistant Professor of Ocean Science and Engineering

The University of Southern Mississippi

Coastal ocean modeling, coastal engineering, coastal sediment transport, and coastal oceanography.

Kim de Mutsert

Associate Professor

The University of Southern Mississippi

Fisheries ecology, marine ecology, movement ecology, and parasitology.

Jeremy "Jerry" David Wiggert

Professor and Associate Director of Ocean Science & Engineering

The University of Southern Mississippi

Ocean circulation, biogeochemical modeling, and remote sensing.

Courtney K. Harris

Professor and Department Chair

Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William and Mary

Sediment transport on continental shelves. Numerical ocean models.

Harish Ratnayaka

Associate Professor

Xavier University of Louisiana

Arielle C. Sutton

MissDelta Program Manager

Louisiana State University