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In response to the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, members of the media may be interested in contacting some of LSU’s research experts for comment or analysis. If you would like assistance finding an expert to speak with, please contact Ashley K Berthelot in the LSU Office of Communications & University Relations at 225-578-3870 or aberth4@lsu.edu.

Information on this webpage will be continually updated, please check as needed for revised information.

Ecological/Environment Impact

  • Kevin R. Carman
    Dean, College of Science
    Areas of Expertise: Effects of oil pollution on salt marsh invertebrates and alga
    225-578-8859, zocarm@lsu.edu

  • Robert Carney
    Professor, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, School of the Coast and Environment
    Areas of Expertise: normal deep-sea fauna; natural deep-sea oil seeps
    225-578-6511, rcarne1@lsu.edu

  • W. David Constant
    Dean, LSU Graduate School
    Humphreys T. Turner Endowed Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering Ph.D. (1984), Louisiana State University
    Areas of specialization: transport and fate of hazardous substances, waste site remediation, contaminated sediments, natural attenuation
    225-578-3885, hscons@lsu.edu

  • Chris D'Elia
    Dean, School of Coast & Environment
    Areas of Expertise: coastal pollution, particularly nutrients and hypoxia
    225-578-7188, cdelia@lsu.edu

  • Barry Dellinger
    Professor, Patrick F. Taylor Chair of Environmental Chemistry
    Areas of Expertise: in situ burning and incineration of oil
    225-578-6759, 225-288-2748, barryd@lsu.edu

  • Qianxin Lin
    Associate Professor, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
    Areas of Expertise: rates and effects of oil spills in coastal marshes; bioremediation, phytoremediation, in-situ burning and restoration of oil spill-impacted coastal marshes; effects and efficacy of oil dispersants.
    225-578-8889, comlin@lsu.edu

  • Andy Nyman
    Associate Professor, Wetland and Wildlife Ecology, School of Renewable Natural Resources, LSU/LSU AgCenter
    Areas of Expertise: wildlife management and restoration in coastal wetlands; effects of oil spills and cleanup options (including the dispersant COREXIT 9500) on wildlife, vegetation and soil microbial communities in coastal freshwater and saline wetlands.
    225-578-4220, jnyman@lsu.edu

  • Ed Overton
    Professor Emeritus, Environmental Sciences, School of the Coast and Environment
    Areas of Expertise: Analytical-Environmental Chemistry - trace organic analyses using high resolution separation techniques and high resolution gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; environmental monitoring; environmental analyses and their associated data interpretation, management and presentation techniques; application of analytical techniques and chemical principles to emergency spill responses; chemical hazard evaluations and risk assessments; analytical instrument development for use with hazardous chemical spill incidents, ambient environmental monitoring, and monitoring in closed (indoor) environments; development of methods to detect, assess and mitigate environmental chemical hazards
    225-578-8634, ebovert@lsu.edu

  • John H. Pardue, P.E.
    Director, Hazardous Substance Research Center Director, Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute Elizabeth Howell Stewart Professor of Engineering
    Areas of specialization: Biological remediation, wetlands, environmental chemistry, fate and transport of contaminants, environmental engineering
    225-578-8661, jpardue@lsu.edu

  • Ralph Portier
    Professor, Environmental Sciences, School of the Coast and Environment
    Areas of Expertise: Aquatic and marine toxicology; bioremediation; oil spills (including Valdez); protocol for assessing bioremediation techniques; wastewater bioremediation
    225-578-4287, rportie@lsu.edu

  • R. Eugene Turner
    Professor, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
    Areas of Expertise: Coastal Ecology, including wetlands and biological oceanography, hypoxia
    225-578-6326, euturne@lsu.edu

  • Andrew Whitehead
    Assistant Professor; Biological Sciences
    Areas of Expertise: Ecotoxicology, ecological genomics
    225-578-8210, andreww@lsu.edu
     
  • Vince Wilson
    Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences
    Areas of Expertise: Toxicology, genetic toxicology, environmental toxicology; chemical and physical carcinogenesis, molecular genetics of cancer
    225-578-225-578-1753, vwilson@lsu.edu
     

Wildlife (birds, alligators, fish, etc)

  • Prosanta Chakrabarty
    Curator of fishes, LSU Museum of Natural Science
    Areas of Expertise: deep sea fish in Gulf, including those that live near oil platforms; systematics of marine and freshwater fishes
    225-578-3079, Prosanta@lsu.edu

  • Kevin Kleinow
    Professor, Comparative Biomedical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine
    Areas of Expertise: Toxicology of fishes; contaminant bioavailability to fishes; food chain transfer of contaminants along the aquatic and marine food chain to humans; fate of contaminants in fish, bioaccumulation in fishes; developmental toxicology in fishes; aquatic animal medicine
    225-578-9922, gguttner@vetmed.lsu.edu

  • Javier Nevarez
    Assistant Professor of Zoological Medicine
    Director, Wildlife Hospital of Louisiana
    Department of Veterinary Clinical Science
    School of Veterinary Medicine
    Areas of Expertise: care for exotic animal pets, wildlife (including alligators), and zoo animals, with particular focus on avian, reptile, and small mammal species
    225-578-9922, gguttner@vetmed.lsu.edu

  • J. V. Remsen
    Professor of Biological Sciences and Curator of Birds at LSU Museum of Natural Science
    Areas of Expertise: bird populations in Louisiana; director, Louisiana Summer Bird Atlas Program, Louisiana Winter Bird Atlas Program; director, Louisiana Bird Resource Center; list-manager for LABIRD-L, the listserv for amateur ornithologists in Louisiana.
    225-578-2855, najames@lsu.edu

  • Thomas Tully, Jr.
    DVM, MS, DABVP (Avian), DECZM (Avian) (LSU SVM 1986 [DVM] and 1991 [MS])
    Professor, Service Chief, Zoological Medicine
    Department of Veterinary Clinical Science
    School of Veterinary Medicine
    Areas of specialization: Wildlife and raptor rehabilitation
    225-578-9922, gguttner@vetmed.lsu.edu

Impact on Humans

  • Troy C. Blanchard
    Associate Professor of Sociology
    Areas of Expertise: Population (especially migration/population growth), religion, food deserts, and community
    225-578-1115, troy@lsu.edu

  • Jim Catano
    Professor, English, Film & Media Arts
    Areas of Expertise: Catano has worked closely with Croatian oystermen, fishermen, and their families for the last 5 years, both on their boats and in their homes. He is available to discuss the impact the oil spill is likely to have on the fishermen, their industry and their traditional ways of life.
    225-578-3140, Catano@lsu.edu

  • Craig Colten
    Professor, Geography & Anthropology
    Areas of Expertise: social response to hazards in southeast Louisiana; environmental justice in southeast Louisiana; historical geography of Louisiana; environmental history of Louisiana; traditional cultures in Louisiana
    225-578-6180, ccolten@lsu.edu

  • Rachel Dowty Beech
    Co-chair, Disaster Management Program
    Areas of Expertise: disasters, social anthropology, bio- and phyto-remediation of oil spills in Louisiana fresh marshes
    225-578-2685, rdowty1@lsu.edu

  • Patrick Hesp
    Co-chair, Disaster Management Program
    Areas of Expertise: Coastal Geomorphology Aeolian Geomorphology and Dune Dynamics Coastal Management
    225-578-6244, pahesp@lsu.edu

  • Arthur Penn
    Professor, Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine
    Areas of specialization: fetal exposure to airborne pollutants (e.g., second-hand smoke) and subsequent health effects in adults; cardio-respiratory responses to exposure to organic products of incomplete combustion (“soots”); gene expression changes (embryo through adult) associated with pollutant exposure and recovery from exposure; inhalation toxicology
    225-578-9922,gguttner@vetmed.lsu.edu

Petroleum Engineering

  • Julius P Langlinais
    Professor, Petroleum Engineering
    Areas of Expertise: risks, likelihood of success, or effectiveness of responses to the blowout
    225-578-6042, eglang@lsu.edu

  • Louis J. Thibodeaux
    Jesse Coates Professor of Chemical Engineering
    Director Emeritus of Hazardous Substance Research Center/South and Southwest
    Adjunct Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
    Areas of specialization: chemodynamics, chemical separations, multimedia environmental modeling, bed-sediment remediation
    225/578-3055, thibod@lsu.edu

Energy

  • David E. Dismukes
    Professor & Associate Executive Director, Center for Energy Studies
    Areas of Expertise: Analysis of economic, statistical, and public policy issues in energy and regulated industries, including offshore and onshore oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) activities; market structure issues in various energy industries; economic and policy issues related to renewable energy generation and market design, and the economic impacts of energy industry infrastructure development along the Gulf Coast.
    225-578-4343; 225-578-4541, dismukes@lsu.edu

Ocean Currents

  • Lawrence J. Rouse
    Professor, Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, School of the Coast and Environment
    Areas of Expertise: circulation processes /currents in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Louisiana coast; wind-driven coastal currents and the deep Gulf Loop Current and eddies
    225-578-0734, lrouse@lsu.edu

  • Gregory W. Stone
    Director, Coastal Studies Institute and WAVCIS Laboratory
    James P. Morgan Distinguished Professor of Coastal Geology
    Areas of Expertise: serves as director of WAVCIS (wave-current information system), which provides wave information (sea state) including height, period, direction of propagation, water level, surge, near surface current speed and direction and meteorological conditions on a real time basis around the entire Louisiana coast; coastal morphodynamics; geological oceanography; sedimentology; modeling of sediment transport in coastal environments
    225-578-4728, gagreg@lsu.edu

  • Nan D. Walker
    Director, Earth Scan Lab
    Professor: Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, School of the Coast and  Environment
    Areas of Expertise: Gulf of Mexico circulation including Loop Current and eddies, river plumes and coastal currents; air-sea interaction and hurricane intensity; satellite remote sensing of currents.
     225-578-5331 or 2396; nanwalkerlsu@gmail.com

Weather

  • Barry Keim
    Louisiana State Climatologist, Department of Geography & Anthropology
    Areas of Expertise: weather, climate
    225-578-6170, keim@lsu.edu

Other Resources

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