LABORDE
ENDOWED CHAIR
The John P.
Laborde Endowed Chair for Sea Grant Research and Technology Transfer
enables Louisiana Sea Grant to bring highly qualified scientists
to LSU to focus on marine and coastal issues critical to the state
while providing those researchers with supplemental sabbatical
funding. To date, six internationally recognized researchers have
been appointed to the endowed chair.
Photo:
Hans Brix, current Laborde Chair |
The current
Laborde Chair is Hans Brix, professor and head of the plant biology
section at Aarhus University, Denmark. His program’s focus
is aquatic and wetland systems, and his group has worked on coastal
salt marshes, freshwater wetlands and seagrass habitats throughout
the world.
One of Brix’s
goals while as Laboarde Chair is to study the differences in ecophysiological
traits between native and invasive-exotic common reed (Phragmites
australis). Phragmites is found on every continent,
except Antarctica. Its decline has been recorded in Europe during
the past 50 years. However, in North America, it has expanded
aggressively and out-competed other plant species. It is considered
a noxious plant in the U.S. because of its limited food value
to wildlife.
Curriculum vitae for Hans Brix (99 KB, PDF)
