People
Principal Investigators (PIs)
Dr. Christopher F. D'Elia
Professor and Dean, LSU College of the Coast and Environment
cdelia@lsu.edu
lsu.edu/cce/research/faculty_profiles/chris_delia.php
Nutrient dynamics in aquatic systems, estuarine ecology, coral reef ecology, algal/invertebrate symbiosis, science history and policy, math and science education, marine pollution, global climate change, and analytical chemistry
Dr. Victor H. Rivera-Monroy
Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
vhrivera@lsu.edu
lsu.edu/cce/research/faculty_profiles/victor_rivera-monroy
Estuarine and coastal ecosystems, landscape modeling/ecosystem models, coastal management and aquaculture
Dr. Kristine L. DeLong
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology
kdelong@lsu.edu
lsu.edu/ga/people/faculty/kristine-delong/
Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, paleoecology, sclerochronology, climate change on recent and longer time scales, ocean-atmosphere processes and decadal variability
Dr. Barry D. Keim
State Climatologist, Louisiana Office of State Climatology
Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology
keim@lsu.edu
lsu.edu/ga/people/faculty/barry-d-keim/
Climate change, extreme weather events, heavy rainfall, hurricanes, and applied climatology
SC-CASC Affiliates
Dr. Eurico D'Sa
Professor, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
ejdsa@lsu.edu
lsu.edu/cce/research/faculty_profiles/eurico_dsa.php
Ocean color remote sensing; Bio-optical properties of coastal and ocean waters; Physical-biogeochemical interactions; Optical properties of colored dissolved organic matter; Coastal biogeochemical processes
Dr. Shelley Xuelian Meng
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology
smeng@lsu.edu
https://www.lsu.edu/ga/people/faculty/shelley-meng/index.php
Surveying, remote sensing, geospatial information sciences
Dr. Renee Edwards
Professor and Chair, Department of Communication Studies
edwards@lsu.edu
lsu.edu/hss/cmst/people/faculty/REdwards.php
Hurricane evacuation and decision making, hurricane literacy, responding to new stories about drought, cognitive processing of weather and climate information
Dr. Kam-biu Liu
Professor and Chair, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
kliu1@lsu.edu
lsu.edu/cce/research/faculty_profiles/kam-biu_liu.php
Coastal environmental change, paleoclimatology, paleoecology and palynology of coastal wetlands, and hurricane impacts
Dr. Kory Konsoer
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology
kkonsoer@lsu.edu
https://www.lsu.edu/ga/people/faculty/kory-konsoer/index.php
Fluvial geomorphology, coevolution of river flows and channel morphology, sediment transport, planform dynamics
Dr. Kanchan Maiti
Assistant Professor, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
kmaiti@lsu.edu
lsu.edu/cce/research/faculty_profiles/kanchan_maiti.php
Biogeochemistry, isotope geochemistry, transport of organic matter and contaminants in aquatic systems, chemical processes at sediment-water interface, and sediment geochemistry
Dr. Jill Trepanier
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology
Faculty Advisor to the Geography and Anthropology Undergraduate Society
jtrepa3@lsu.edu
https://lsu.edu/ga/people/faculty/jill-trepanier/
Extreme climatic and weather phenomena, tropical cyclones, quantitative statistical analysis
Dr. Robert V. Rohli
Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology
garohl@lsu.edu
lsu.edu/cce/research/faculty_profiles/robert_rohli.php
Synoptic and applied climatology, meteorology, water resources, and geography education
Dr. Alex Haberlie
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology
ahaberlie1@lsu.edu
https://www.lsu.edu/ga/people/faculty/alex-haberlie/index.php
Climate extremes, severe and hazardous weather, land use / land cover effects on regional climatology, machine learning, digital image processing, and climate modeling
Dr. Zuo "George" Xue
Assistant Professor, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
zxue@lsu.edu
https://www.lsu.edu/cce/research/faculty_profiles/zuo_xue.php
Physical-bio-geochemical modeling; coastal ocean carbon cycling; Coupled atmospheric-hydrological modeling
Dr. Malinda Sutor
Assistant Professor-Research, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
msutor1@lsu.edu
https://www.lsu.edu/cce/research/faculty_profiles/malinda_sutor.php
Ecology and physiology of plankton and the physical and biological interactions, active acoustics and image-forming optical systems
Dr. Jun-Hong Liang
Assistant Professor, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
jliang@lsu.edu
https://www.lsu.edu/_archives/_2021/cce/research/faculty_profiles/jun-hong_liang.php
Physical Oceanography; Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamis; Ocean modeling
Dr. Paul Miller
Assistant Professor, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
pmiller1@lsu.edu
https://www.lsu.edu/cce/research/faculty_profiles/paul_miller.php
Coastal meteorology; Hydroclimatology; Mesoscale climate science; Weakly forced thunderstorms; Land-atmosphere interactions; Hazardous weather impacts
SC-CASC Graduate Assistants
Jacob Warner
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography and Anthropology
Advisor: Dr. David Chicoine, Dr. Kristine DeLong
Graduate Research Assistant funded by SC-CASC
Paleoclimatology, paleoenvironment reconstruction, sclerochronology, coastal archaeology, environmental archaeology, Peruvian prehistory
Clay Tucker
Ph.D Candidate, Department of Geography and Anthropology
Advisor: Dr. Jill Trepanier
Graduate Research Assistant partially funded by SC-CASC
Hurricane climatology, paleoclimatology, dendrochronology
Jessica Tolan
M.S. Student, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Malinda Sutor
Graduate Research Assistant funded by SC-CASC
Plankton ecology, water quality dynamics, zooplankton, trophic web ecology, oil spill impacts
Kendall Brome
Coastal Environmental Science Undergraduate, Department of Oceanography and Coastal
Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Kristine DeLong
Undergraduate Research partially funded by SC-CASC
Xiaochen Zhao
PhD Student, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Victor Rivera-Monroy
Graduate Research Assistant funded by SC-CASC
Ivan Vargas-Lopez
PhD Student, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Victor Rivera-Monroy
Graduate Research Assistant funded by SC-CASC
Kylie Palmer
Ph.D. Student, Department of Geography and Anthropology
Advisor: Dr. Kristine DeLong
Graduate Research Assistant funded by SC-CASC
Paleoclimate reconstructions, conservation paleobiology, paleoecology, sclerochronology, hurricanes, tropical climatology, climate change
Alumni
Eva Hillmann, PhD
Department of Renewable and Natural Resources
Advisor: Dr. Victor Rivera-Monroy
Graduate Research Assistant funded by SC-CASC
Dissertation: Analysis of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Resources across the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Communities and Biomass
Megan Kelsall, M.S.
Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Victor Rivera-Monroy
Graduate Research Assistant funded by SC-CASC
Thesis: Sources and Chemical Stability of Soil Organic Carbon along a Salinity Gradient and a Chronosequence of Created Brackish Marshes in Coastal Louisiana
Tess Danielson, M.S.
Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Victor Rivera-Monroy
Graduate Research Assistant
Thesis: Everglades Mangrove Forest Response to Large-Scale Disturbance: Long-Term Assessment of Structural and Functional Properties
Rebecca Hood, M.S.
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Advisor: Dr. Kristine DeLong
Graduate Research Assistant funded by SC-CASC
Coastal archaeology, human-environment interactions, paleoclimatology, sclerochronology, environmental archaeology, climate variability during the Holocene, and historical climatology
Gil Ouelette, Ph.D
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Advisor: Dr. Kristine DeLong
Graduate Research Assistant and SC-CASC Early Career Fellow
gilman.ouellette@gmail.com
Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, isotope geochemistry, multi-proxy reconstructions, coral and speleothem proxies, and Caribbean climate variability
Emily Powell, Ph.D
Advisor: Dr. Barry Keim
Graduated May 2014
SC-CASC Early Career Fellow
Dissertation: "Climate Extremes in the Southeast United States: Observed Variability, Spatial Classification, and Related Planning."
William Tollefson, M.S.
Advisor: Dr. Robert Rohli
Graduate Research Assistant funded by by SC CASC
Graduated December 2013.
Thesis: “Effect of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Conditions on Agricultural Spray Drift."
Study site: Winnsboro, Louisiana.
Asher Williams, Ph.D
Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Victor Rivera-Monroy
Graduate Research Assistant funded by SC CASC