Available Assistantships

Opportunity Abroad
Constructed wetland and ecotechnology PhD student position in Germany

Current Students:

Melissa M. Baustian
Major Professor: Nancy Rabalais
Thesis/Disseration Title: Benthic primary production in the Gulf of Mexico hypoxia region

Christian Briseno
Major Professor: Mark C. Benfield
Thesis/Dissertation title: Multi species patchiness in the Georges Bank using the Video Plankton Recorder

Whitney Broussard
Major Professor: R. Eugene Turner
Research Interest/Area: Watershed Ecology

Jody Callihan
Advisor: Jim Cowan
Dissertation Title: Movement patterns and population structure of spotted seatrout, Cynoscion nebulosus, in Louisiana coastal waters Research interest: marine fisheries ecology

Jeremy Landon Conkle
Major Professor: John White
Thesis/Disseration Title: Pharmaceuticals in the Aquatic Environment

Jennifer Coor
Major Professor:  Chunyan Li
Thesis/Disseration Title: Analysis of ADCP stations in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Anindita Das
Major Professor: Dr. Dubravko Justic
Dissertation title: Modeling the Impacts of Mississippi River Divesions on Water Quality in the Barataria Bay Estuary

Padmanava Dash
Major Professor: Dr. Nan D. Walker
Research Interest: Remote Sensing of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs)
Tentative Dissertaion Title: "Quantitative Mapping of Cyanobacterial Blooms from Satellite data: An Empirical Approach"

Heather Drucker
Major Professor: Richard Condrey
Thesis/Disseration Title: Blue crab spawning on Ship Shoal

Angelina Freeman
Major Professor: Dr. Harry Roberts
Thesis/Disseration Title: High resolution acoustic characterizaion and hurricane impact analysis of a coastal bay bottom and its shallow subsurface geology

Lisa Gardner
Major Professor: John White
Thesis/Disseration Title: Spatial Variation of Denitrification in a Wetland Receiving Diverted
Mississippi River Water

Walter Guidroz
Major Professor: Greg Stone
Thesis/Disseration Title: Subaqueous, Hurricane-Initiated Shelf Failure Morphodynamics Along the Mississippi River Delta Front, North-Central Gulf of Mexico

Caleb W. Izdepski
Major Professor: John W. Day
Thesis/Disseration Title:Forested Wetland Productivity

Jennifer Lentz
Major Professor: Dr. Paul W. Sammarco
Thesis/Dissertation Title: Using GIS and Remote Sensing to better understand Acropora diseases in Puerto Rico & the Virgin Islands

Zahid Muhammad
Major Professor: Samuel J. Bentley and Harry H. Roberts
Thesis/Disseration Title: Late Quaternary sedimentation in the Gulf of Papua

Carey Lynn Perry
Major Professor:  Irv Mendelssohn
Thesis Title:  Effects of the black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) on essential ecosystem processes
in a southeastern Louisiana Spartina alterniflora saltmarsh

Bryan Piazza
Major Professor:  Megan LaPeyre
Dissertation Title:  The role of climate variability in the community dynamics of estuarine nekton.

Joao Rego
Major Professor: CHUNYAN LI
Disseration Topic: STORM SURGE NUMERICAL MODELING

Julie Dean Rosati
Major Professor: Dr. Gregory W. Stone
Dissertation Title:  "EVOLUTION OF NATURAL AND STABILIZED BARRIER ISLANDS ACCOUNTING FOR MIGRATION BY EPISODIC AND LONG-TERM PROCESSES AND CONSOLIDATION OF THE UNDERLYING SEDIMENT"  

Shaye Sable
Major Professor:  Kenneth Rose
Dissertation Title:  Comparison of individual-based and matrix projection models for simulating fish population and community dynamics  

Devereaux E. Sellers II
Major Professor: Kenny Rose
Thesis Topic: Top Down versus Bottom Up Effects in food webs upon removal of the top predator(s)

Michelle Satterwhite
Major Professor:Donald Baltz
Thesis title: Effects of food limitation on RNA:DNA ratios in naked goby Gobiosoma bosc

  Kirsten Simonsen
Major Professor:Dr. Jim Cowan
Thesis Title / Interests:  Fish community structure over an artificial oyster reef in Barataria Bay, Louisiana,
including dietary analysis and usage of artificial reef by commercially and recreationally important species.  

Neha Sharma
Major Professor: Dr. Eurico J. D'Sa
Thesis Description: Evaluation of QuikSCAT Satellite and COAMPS Regional Model performance for wind retrieval against buoy measurements for the Gulf of Mexico

Camille Stagg
Major Professor: Irving Mendelssohn
Dissertation is "Remediating the Effects of Global Climate Change on Salt Marsh Function"

David Wells
Advisor: Jim Cowan
Dissertation Title: THE EFFECTS OF TRAWLING AND HABITAT USE ON RED SNAPPER AND THE ASSOCIATED COMMUNITY

Michelle Zapp
Major Prof: Jim Cowan
Dissertation Subject: Gulf of Mexico Red Snapper Otolith Microchemistry