Nan D. Walker
Position: Professor and James P. Morgan Distinguished Professor of Coastal Studies, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences; Director, Earth Scan Laboratory
Phone: 225-578-2395
Fax: 225-578-2520
E-mail: nwalker@lsu.edu
Bachelor's Degree(s): B.S. Duke University, 1976
Master's Degrees(s): M.S. Louisiana State University, 1982
Ph.D.(s): Ph.D. University of Cape Town, 1989
Research Interests
Physical oceanography, Satellite oceanography, Estuarine-shelf exchange processes, Air-sea interactions and tropical cyclone intensity, Gulf of Mexico Loop Current and eddy circulations, Physical-biological interactions, Physical processes affecting coral reef health
Classes Taught
OCS 1005. Introduction to Oceanography
OCS 2007. Physical and Geological Oceanography
OCS 7170. Satellite Oceanography
OCS 8900. Advanced Reading and Literature Research
Recent Publications
Iles, Robert L., Nan D. Walker, John R. White and Robert V. Rohli, Impacts of a major Mississippi River freshwater diversion on suspended sediment plume kinematics in Lake Pontchartrain, a semi-enclosed Gulf of Mexico Estuary, Estuaries and Coasts, DOI 10.1007/s12237-020-00789-y, 2020.
Ford, Victoria L., Nan D. Walker, and Iam-Fei Pun, Anomalous oceanic conditions in the central and eastern North Pacific Ocean during the 2014 hurricane season and relationships to three major hurricanes, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8, 288; doi:10.3390/jmse8040288, 2020.
Smith, T., J.K. Jolliff, N.D. Walker, S. Anderson, Biophysical submesoscale processes in the wake of Hurricane Ivan: simulations and satellite observations, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 7, 378; doi:10.3390/jmse7110378, 2019.
Walker, N.D, R.R. Leben, C.T. Pilley, M. Shannon, D.C. Herndon, I.F. Pun, I.-I. Lin, C.L. Gentemann, Slow translation speed causes rapid collapse of East Pacific Hurricane Kenneth over a cold core eddy, Geophysical Research Letters, 41, doi:10.1002/2014GL061584, 2014
Kolker, A. S., Li, C., Walker, N. D., Pilley, C., Ameen, A., Boxer, G., Ramatchandirane, C., Ullah, M., Williams, K. (2014). The impacts of the Great Mississippi/Atchafalaya River flood on the oceanography of the inner Continental Shelf. Continental Shelf Research, 86, 17-33. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2014.04.023, 2014.
Huang, H., N.D. Walker, Y. Hsueh, Y. Chao, and R. Leben, An Analysis of Loop Current frontal eddies in a 1/6° Atlantic Ocean model simulation, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 43, DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-12-0227.1, 1924-1939, 2013.
Walker, N. D., C. T. Pilley, V. V. Raghunathan, E. J. D'Sa, R. R. Leben, N. G. Hoffmann, P. J. Brickley, P. D. Coholan, N. Sharma, H. C. Graber, R. E. Turner, 2011, Impacts of a Loop Current frontal eddy cyclone and wind forcing on the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, AGU Monograph Series 195, Monitoring and Modeling the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: a Record-Breaking Enterprise, Editors Y. Liu, A. MacFadyen, Z. Ji and R. Weisberg, 10.1029/2011GM001120, 103-116, 2011.