College of the Coast & Environment Graduate Student Symposium Winners Announced

May 20, 2021

Each semester, the LSU College of the Coast & Environment hosts a graduate student symposium in which students present their research conducted toward the fulfillment of a degree within the college and compete for prizes. This spring, fourteen graduate students participated and first, second, and third place winners were announced.

  • First Place: Emily Shallow
  • Second Place: Nazla Bushra
  • Third Place: Zoë Shribman

Below is a full list of the participants, including the titles of their presentations.

  • Kejin Wang, Twitter Use in Hurricane Isaac and Its Implications to Disaster Resilience
  • Allyson Kristan, Paleoecological proxies of sub-Antarctic marine predator populations in a changing climate
  • Ashley Rossin, Tissue-level effects of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease on seven Caribbean coral species
  • Benjamin Farmer, Spatial biophysical and epidemiological modeling of an emergent Caribbean coral disease
  • Elizabeth Harris, Factors Influencing Subsurface Wetland Dynamics in Coastal Louisiana: Implications for Wetland Response to Sea-level rise and Restoration.
  • Emily Shallow, Identifying ontogenetic shifts in primary energy pathways of invasive red lionfish, Pterois volitans, in the Florida Keys via stable isotope and otolith analysis
  • Gourav Divan, Mapping Plastic Pollution in the Amite Watershed, Louisiana
  • Jennifer Argote, Reducing Flood Hazard and Loss with the National Flood Insurance Program and the community Rating System  
  • Lindsey Lamana, Socio-ecological Network Analysis of Existing Plans in the Upper-Pontchartrain Basin
  • Nazla Bushra, Characterizing the Northern Hemisphere Circumpolar Vortex through Space and Time
  • Shannon Nelson, Hydrometeorological Responses to Abrupt Land Surface Change Following Hurricane Michael
  • Yadav Sapkota, Soil organic matter deposition in highly eroding coastal wetlands experiencing high relative sea-level rise
  • Zoe Shribman, Predicting blue carbon sequestration with belowground biomass: model verification in South Florida’s mangroves
  • Michael Jacobs, Abiotic Stressors of Phragmites australis haplotypes in the Lower Mississippi River Delta: Implications for die-back.

This article highlights just some of the LSU College of the Coast & Environment’s many scholarships and awards recipients. View the list on our website.