Mailing and Contact Information: 210 Howe-Russell Geosciences Complex Wetland Biogeochemistry Institute Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA - 70803 Tel:225-578-2521 Fax:225-578-2520 E-mail: coiino@lsu.edu	Masamichi Inoue Associate Professor

Education:

Ph. D. Texas A & M University, Oceanography, 1982

Grants:

• Multistress: Cumulative Coastal Stressors Northern Gulf of Mexico (with R.E. Turner, Coastal Ecology); funded by NOAA; approximately $5 million (without match) (total LSU match of $129,500)($249,945 for hydrodynamic modeling); 09/01/02 -08/31/05.
  
  
• Continuation of Observation of Deep Water Manifestation of Loop currents Rings ( with S. E. Welsh and L. Rouse, Jr.) by the Mineral Management Service (Coastal Marine Institute), $219,804, 10/01/02-10/31/2004
  
  
• Dispersion Induced by Topographic Features in Shallow Estuaries (with PI W.J. Wiseman); submitted to SeaGrant; $84,280; 2 years (Pending).
  
  
• Development of a 4-D “Composite Image” Instrumentation Array for Coastal processes in heterogeneous Environments (with Sheremet et al., Coastal Studies); submitted to Major Instrumentation Program, NSF, $1,659,137, 3 years (Pending).
  
  
• Multi-scale computational fluid flow simulation submitted to IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training) program at NSF, $2.5 million for 5 years (with S. Acharya, Mechanical Engineering) (Pending).
  

Recent Publications:

1. Inoue, M., I. C. Handoh, and G. R. Bigg, 2002: Bimodal distribution of tropical cyclogenesis in the Caribbean: Characteristics and environmental factors. J. Climate, 15, 2897-2905.
   
   
2. Handoh, I. C., G. R. Bigg, and M. Inoue, 2001: Use of a reduced-gravity model to evaluate present and past primary productivity in the tropical open-ocean. Limnology and Oceanography, 46(7), 1632-1641.
   
   
3. Wiseman, W. J., M. Inoue, R. Patchen, V. Ransibrahmanakul, S. P. Murray, and S. DiMarco, 2000: Hydrography of the Louisiana Coastal Current: Model-data comparison. Pp. 287-302, in T. Yanagi (Ed.) Interactions between Estuaries, Coastal Seas and Shelf Seas, Terra Scientific Publishing Company, Tokyo.
   
   
4. Welsh, S. E. and M. Inoue, 2000: Loop Current rings and the deep circulation in the Gulf of Mexico. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 16,951-16,959.
   
   
5. Inoue, M. and W. J. Wiseman, Jr., 2000: Transport, stirring and mixing processes in a Louisiana estuary: A model study. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 50, 449-466.