ARNOLD H. BOUMA
    LSU Department of Geology and Geophysics.
    Ph.D., University of Utrecht, Netherlands, 1961.
    Research interests: Marine depositional environmental settings,
    environmental geology.

    KEVIN CARMAN
    LSU Department of Biological Sciences.
    Ph.D., Florida State University, 1989.
    Research interests: Aquatic microbial ecology, interactions between
    marine sedimentary organisms and benthic metazoa, and epibiotic
    bacteria and their crustacean hosts.

    PIERS CHAPMAN
    Director, CREST Office
    Ph.D., University College of North Wales, Bangor, 1982.
    Research interests:  Upwelling systems, large-scale ocean tracers,
    marine chemistry.

    RUSSELL L. CHAPMAN
    Dean, School of the Coast and Environment.
    Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1973.
    Research interests: Algal ultrastructure and phylogeny, biology of
    the Trentepohliaceae (Chlorophyta), ribosomal gene sequencing and
    molecular evolution in algae and bryophytes.

    EDWARD CHESNEY
    Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
    Ph.D., University of Rhode Island, 1984.
    Research interests: Fisheries and aquaculture.

    MICHAEL J. DAGG
    Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
    Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, 1975.
    Research interests: Biological oceanography and zooplankton ecology.

    QUAY DORTCH
    Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
    Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, 1980.
    Research interests: Phytoplankton ecology, nutrient cycling,
    eutrophication.

    STEPHEN P. FAULKNER
    Wetland Biogeochemistry Institute.
    Ph.D., Duke University, 1994.
    Research interests: Wetland biogeochemical processes, hydric soils,
    wetland delineation and functional assessment, wetlands restoration.

    CHRISTOPHER FINELLI
    Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
    Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1997.
    Research interests: Benthic ecology and physical-biological coupling,
    turbulent water flow in odor-mediated foraging, suspension feeding.

    JOHN FLEEGER
    George C. Kent Professor of Biological Sciences at LSU.
    Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1977.
    Research Interests: Ecology of the marine benthos, abundance patterns
    of meiofauna and small macrofauna, and interactions of aromatic
    hydrocarbons and metals on an estuarine food chain.

    YOKO FURUKAWA
    Stennis Space Center, MS.
    Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1994.
    Research interests: Early diagenesis of aquatic sediments; analysis
    and reaction-transport models for carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.

    JAMES GEAGHAN
    LSU Department of Experimental Statistics.
    Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1980.
    Research interests: Statistics and biometrics, fisheries sciences,
    aquatic ecology, computer science.

    MEGAN LAPEYRE
    U.S. Geological Survey, LA.
    Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 2000.
    Research interests: Fish habitat.

    KAREN  MCKEE
    USGS National Wetlands Research Center.
    Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1993.
    Research interests: Mangrove ecology.

    ANDY NYMAN
    LSU Institute of Forest, Wildlife, and Fisheries.
    School of Renewable Natural Resources
    Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1993.
    Research interests: The response of wetland ecosystems to hydraulic
    alteration, global sea level rise, or pollution.

    RALPH PORTIER
    Chairman, LSU Dept. of Environmental Sciences,
    Distinguished Professor in Louisiana Environmental Studies.
    Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1982.
    Research interests: Fate and effect of carcinogens in fresh water and
    marine environments, bioremidiation.

    RODNEY POWELL
    Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
    Ph.D., Florida State University, 1995.
    Research interest: Biogeochemistry of trace elements in aqueous
    systems

    NANCY N. RABALAIS
    Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
    Ph.D., University of Texas, 1983.
    Research interests: Marine and estuarine ecology, river/ocean
    interaction, benthic ecology, biological oceanography.

    MARGARET A. REAMS
    LSU Institute for Environmental Sciences.
    Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1990.
    Research interests: Public policy relating to environmental and water
    affairs, evaluation of environmental policies, policy analysis and
    implementation, comparative environmental policy, environmental risk
    analysis.

    ENRIQUE REYES
    University of New Orleans.
    Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1992
    Research interests: Ecosystem modeling, landscape ecology, systems
    ecology, coastal management, wetlands.


    PAUL W. SAMMARCO
    Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
    Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1977.
    Research interests: Interdisciplinary marine research, larval
    dispersal and recruitment process, chemical ecology, bioerosion.

    CHARLES SASSER
    Coastal Ecology Institute.
    Ph.D., University of Utrecht, Netherlands, 1994.
    Research interests: Coastal ecology, plant ecology, evolutionary
    biology