Faculty

R. Eugene Turner Professor Ph.D. 1974, Zoology, University of Georgia M.S. 1969, Zoology, Drake University B.A. 1967, Zoology, Monmouth College

Research Interests

Biological oceanography

Conservation

Environmental management

Fisheries ecology

Wetlands

Selected Publications

Out of about 16 books/monographs and 200+ scientific contributions

Turner, R. E. 2005. On the cusp of restoration: Science and society. Restoration Ecology 13: 165-173.

Turner, R.E., N. N. Rabalais 2003. Linking landscape and water quality in the Mississippi River Basin for 200 years. BioScience 53: 563-572.

Turner, R. E. and B. Streever 2002. Approaches to Coastal Wetland Restoration: Northern Gulf of Mexico. SPB Academic Publishing, Den Hague, Netherlands. 147 pp.

National Research Council (Panel Member) 2001. Compensating for Wetland Losses Under the Clean Water Act. National Research Council. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 322 pp.

Rabalais, N. N. and R. E. Turner (eds.). 2000. Effects of Hypoxia on Living Resources, with an Emphasis on the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Coastal and Estuarine Studies Series, American Geophysical Union. Washington, D.C.

Valigura, R., R. E.Turner, et al. (eds.) 2000. Atmospheric Deposition to Estuarine Ecosystems. American Geophysical Union.

Malone, T., A. Malej, L. Harding, N. Smodlaka and R. E. Turner (eds.) 1999. Ecosystems at the land-sea margin: Drainage Basin to Coastal Sea. Coastal and Estuarine Studies Series, No. 55. American Geophysical Union.
Washington, D.C.

Turner, R. E., N. Qureshi, N. N. Rabalais, Q. Dortch, D. Justic', R. Shaw and J. Cope 1998. Fluctuating silicate:nitrate ratios and coastal plankton food webs. Proc. National Academy of Sciences (USA) 95:13048-13051.

Turner, R. E. 1997. Wetland loss in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Multiple working hypotheses. Estuaries 20:1-13.

Turner, R. E. and N. N. Rabalais. 1994. Coastal eutrophication near the Mississippi River delta. Nature 368: 619-621.

Symposia organized

1st through 7th International Wetlands Conferences (INTECOL): New Dehli, India 1980 (with V. J. Chapman, J. J. Gaudet, B. Gopal, R. B. Wetzel and D. Whigham), Trebon, Czechoslovakia, 1984 (hosted by J. Kvet); Rennes, France 1988 (hosted by J. C. Lefeurve), Columbus, Ohio 1992 (hosted by W. Mitsch), Perth, Australia 1996 (hosted by A. McComb and J. Davis), Quebec, Canada 2000 (hosted by C. Rubec, B. Belanger and G. Hood), Utrecht, Netherlands 2004, (hosted by J. Verhoeven)

1st and 2nd Coastal Wetland Ecology and Management Symposium, Key Largo, Fla. (with J. Meeder) Dec. 1994 (about 200 attendees) and New Orleans, LA. (with J. Meeder) Dec. 1991 (about 160 attendees)

Awards

2004 INTECOL Wetland Working Group
2002 Certificate of Appreciation, Ecological Society of Korea
2002-2006 Distinguished Professor in Louisiana Environmental Studies, LSU
2002 Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Service in 1999-2001, National Academies, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology
2000 Sigma Xi, McGill University, Canada, elected member
2000 Pirogue Award, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation
2000-01 National Research Council, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, Committee on Mitigating Wetland Losses
1999 Blasker Award for Environmental Science and Engineering, shared with N. N. Rabalais
1998 National Wetlands Award, Science Research (co-sponsors: Environmental Law Institute, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Fish and Wildlife Service, USDA National Resources Conservation Service, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service), Washington, D.C.
1991-1994 National Research Council, Marine Board Panel Member, The Role of Technology in Marine Habitat Protection and Enhancement
1979 National Academy of Sciences International Exchange Program, Czechoslovakia
1972-1974 National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Duke University Oceanographic Program

Courses Taught

Biological Oceanography

Coastal Marshes and Swamps

Coastal Erosion and Wetland Loss in Louisiana

Concepts of the Ecosystem

Energy, Natural Resource Use and Ecosystems

Theoretical Concepts of Ecology

Wetland Loss, Restoration and Management

Tulane University, Environmental Law Class

Wetland-Water Couplings

Contact Information

Tel: (225) 578-6454

Fax: (225) 578-6326

euturne@lsu.edu