Faculty Professors

Donald Baltz, Professor, Coastal Fisheries Institute
Research Interest: Fish ecology, life history, and habitat selection, marine vertebrates, acoustics

Sibel Bargu, Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Phytoplankton Ecology, Harmful algal blooms and food web interactions

Mark Benfield, Associate Professor
Research Interest: Shrimp life history and ecology, zooplankton ecology, larval transport and dynamics

Samuel Bentley, Associate Professor
Research Interest: Formation of the stratigraphic record, bioturbation, sedimentation

Jaye Cable, Associate Professor
Research Interest: Marine geochemistry, coastal hydrology

Robert Carney, Associate Professor
Research Interest: Biological oceanography, research administration

Richard Condrey, Associate Professor
Research Interest: Population dynamics, fishery management, and coastal ecology

James Cowan, Jr. , Associate Professor
Research Interest: Fisheries ecology, biological and fisheries oceanography, biometrics

Eurico D'Sa, Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Marine optics, Satellite remote sensing, Bio-optical oceanography,
Coastal biogeochemical properties using optical measurements

Brian Fry, Professor
Research Interest: Ecosystem ecology

Robert Gambrell, Professor
Research Interest: Environmental chemistry of soils, sediment-water systems

Shih Hsu, Professor
Research Interest: Coastal and marine meteorology, air-sea interaction

Masamichi Inoue, Associate Professor
Research Interest: Numerical modeling of ocean circulation, climate changes

Dubravko Justic, Professor
Research Interest: Ecosystem modeling, biological oceanography, climate change;Coastal marine eutrophication; Hypoxia;Impacts of climate change on coastal ecosystems

Paul LaRock, Professor
Research Interest: Estuarine pollution, microbiology, geomicrobiology, oceanography

Chunyan Li, Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Physical oceanography, transport, coastal and estuarine circulations, innovative observations, modeling, extreme weather (such as hurricane) induced water level change including storm surges.

Kam-Biu Liu, Professor
Research Interest: Thematic: Paleotempestology, Coastal paleoecology, Ice-core paleoclimatology, Global environmental change, Palynology and lake-sediments
Regional: U.S. Gulf coast and Atlantic coast, Caribbean region and Central America, South America (Andes and Amazon Basin), Tibetan Plateau, Central Asia (Mongolia and Kazakhstan), China, Africa

Charles Lindau, Professor
Research Interest: Nitrogen Transformations in flooded soils and sediments, stable isotopes, greenhouse gases, oil spill remediation, point and non-point pollution

Irving Mendelssohn, Professor
Research Interest: Wetland and barrier island plant ecology, plant physiological ecology

Joseph E. Powers, Associate Professor
Research Interest: Fisheries stock assessment and fisheries management, including modeling of recruitment variability; ecosystem criteria in fisheries management; examination of ecosystem structure in response to fishery exploitation; and the applications of game theory to the theory and practice of fisheries management.

Victor Hugo Rivera-Monroy, Assistant Professor-Research,Wetland Biogeochemistry Institute
Research Interests: Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems;Biogeochemistry of Wetlands ;Landscape Modelling/Ecosystem Models; Coastal Management/Aquaculture

Harry Roberts, Boyd Professor
Research Interest: Marine geology, Sedimentology, Deltaic processes

Kenneth Rose, Associate Professor
Research Interest: Mathematical and computer modeling of aquatic populations, communities, food webs, and ecosystems; use of models for both theoretical and applied analyses, such as ecological risk assessment and fisheries management.

Lawrence Rouse, Professor
Research Interest: Remote sensing, phsical oceanography

Richard Shaw, Professor
Research Interest: Ichthyoplankton and juvenile fish ecology, growth and mortality estimates, larval fish transport and recruitment mechanisms, essential fisheries habitat for early life history stages, global climate change

Gregory Stone, Professor
Research Interest: Coastal morphodynamics and coastal zone management

Eugene Turner, Professor
Research Interest: Biological oceanography, environmental management, estuarine ecology, wetlands

Robert Twilley, Professor
Research Interest: Systems ecology and biogeochemistry of coastal wetlands both in the Gulf of Mexico and throughout Latin America; Ecosystem modelling, both conceptual and simulation, to forecast the rehabilitation of coastal and wetland ecosystems.

Jenneke Visser, Associate Professor Research
Research Interest: Wetland restoration; Vegetation ecology; Seabird habitat use and population trends

Nan Walker, Associate Professor
Research Interest: Gulf of Mexico Loop Current and eddy circulation processes, Satellite oceanography, Physical processes of estuaries, coastal regions, river plumes and upper ocean mixed layer, Air-sea interactions associated with tropical and extra-tropical storms, Coastal upwelling, Physical processes affecting coral reef structure and health, Ocean climatology

John White, Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Biogeochemical cycling of nutrients (N & P) in Natural/Constructed Wetlands, Estuaries, and Lake Sytems; Water Quality, Pharmaceutical loading to wetlands, Nutrient Flux from sediments (internal loading), Plant-Soil Relationships.

Charles Wilson, Professor, Vice Provost LSU
Research Interest: Fishery science, fisheries biology, artificial reef ecology, mariculture