Faculty and Staff
Satish Bastola, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
504-280-6093
[email protected]
Terrestrial water cycle of medium to large river basins, interaction of hydrological, geomorphological and biogeochemical processes, terrestrial biosphere modeling, effect of climate and global change on water resources and hydrologic regimes, influence of vegetation on soil erosion, shallow landslide, and gully erosion, statistical downscaling for hydrological application, combining crop model and satellite data for crop yield analysis
Kelly Boyle, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
504-280-6645
[email protected]
Functional morphology and behavior of teleost fishes, fish bioacoustics: the relationship between morphological diversity of the ear and associated anatomical features and hearing acuity in different fishes, the impact of human-made noise in marine environments on hearing and acoustic communication in fishes
Erin Cox, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
504-280-6642
[email protected]
Coastal benthic ecology: the study of the plants and animals that live on the seafloor in shallow-waters and how the environment shapes their interactions and physiology, the study of how humans modify coastal ecosystems and how best to manage them, examinations of kelp forest herbivory, ecology on rocky shores and longterm monitoring of intertidal communities, production on artificial reefs and in seagrass beds, effects of ocean acidification on seagrass beds and small invertebrates, outreach and science advisor to a secondary school led monitoring program (OPIHI: Our Project in Hawaii’s Intertidal)
Madeline Foster-Martinez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences
504-280-4747
[email protected]
Environmental fluid mechanics, implementation of nature and nature-based features, wetland restoration, climate change mitigation and adaptation, ecological modeling, engineering with nature
Ioannis Y. Georgiou, Ph.D., P.G.
Professor Gratis
GP 1065
Coastal Morphodynamics
504-280-1373
[email protected]
Surfaces processes and numerical modeling in fluvial, estuarine, and coastal systems. Hydrodynamics, sediment transport and morphology modeling, coastal geomorphology, water and sediment exchange processes, landscape evolution, sediment transport during storms, coastal sand budgets.
Mark A. Kulp, Ph.D.
Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Director of Pontchartrain Institute
GP 1029
504-280-1170
[email protected]
Coastal Stratigraphy, sedimentology, coastal geomorphology, coastal restoration
Robert C. Mahon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Civil and Environmental Engineering
GP 1062
Stratigraphy and Surface Processes Lab
504-280-1392
[email protected]
sedimentology, stratigraphy, sediment transport in modern and ancient rivers and deltas, building quantitative relations between physical processes such as flow and sediment transport dynamics and the record of these processes left behind as stratigraphic architectures, sediment experiments in flumes and delta tanks, fieldwork on riverine and deltaic environments of Louisiana
Alex McCorquodale, Ph.D., P.E., P.Eng.
FMI Professor for Environmental Modeling, Civil and Environmental Engineering
CERM 315
504-280-6074
[email protected]
Physical and numerical modeling in environmental hydraulics, settling tank hydrodynamics, lake and river hydrodynamics, transport of contaminated sediments, fluvial morphodynamics
Martin T. O'Connell, Ph.D.
Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences
GP 1008
504-280-4032
[email protected]
Fish ecology, aquatic ecology, fisheries management, invasive species
David C. Podgorski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
504-280-4438
[email protected]
Analytical chemistry, environmental chemistry, organic geochemistry and biogeochemistry, and mobilization, processing, and fate of pollutants
William Stein III, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Research
Estuarine fish and decapod communities, water movement in the Pontchartrain Estuary, Lionfish, Cobia, Warsaw Grouper on the Louisiana coast, and the life history of Tarpon in the northern Gulf of Mexico
Phoebe Zito, Ph.D.
University of Louisiana System Foundation & Michael and Judith Russell Professor in Environmental Chemistry, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
504-280-7336
[email protected]
Environmental chemistry, photochemistry, nanomaterials, aquatic geochemistry, analytical chemistry
Staff
Dinah Maygarden, M.A.
Research Associate, Science Education Program Director
GP 1069
504-280-1374
[email protected]
Environmental and coastal science education, teacher science education
Michael Brown
Research Associate
GP 1020G
504-280-1360
[email protected]
Field support group, operations and maintenance
Meg O’Connell
Research Associate
GP 1007
504-280-4037
[email protected]
Aquatic Sciences, experimental and applied statistics for fishery science
Student Researchers