Mailing and Contact Information: 2173 Energy, Coast & Environment Building Wetland Biogeochemistry Institute Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA - 70803 Tel:225-578-6425 Fax:225-578-6423 E-mail: imendel@lsu.edu	Irving Mendelssohn Professor

Education:

Ph. D. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 1978
M. S. College of William and Mary in conjunction with the Virginia Institute of Marine Scienc, 1973
B. A. Wikes College, 1969

Grants:

• Louisiana Sea Grant Program, 2000-2002. Wetland ecosystem health: An experimental approach to assessment (2 years - $130,907).
• Louisiana Sea Grant Program, 1998-2000. Marsh restoration with dredged sediment: Controls on structural and functional responses to differential sediment addition (2 years - $118,932).
• University of Cincinnati/EPA-Cincinnati. 1998-2000. Effect of oil concentration and weathering on plant response: Field Approaches to Ecosystem Restoration of Highly Stressed Coastal Salt Marshes (2 years - $102,239)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology. 1999-2000. An evaluation of the factors that maximize wetland recovery after in-situ burning for oil remediation. (2 years - $190,000)
• Louisiana Applied Oil Spill Research and Development Program. 1998-2000. The effects of inundation environment on phytoremediation by fresh and brackish marsh plants for oil spill cleanup. (2 years- $96,450)
  

Recent Publications:

1. Mendelssohn, I. A. and J. T. Morris. (in press). Eco-physiological constraints on the primary productivity of Spartina alterniflora. in: Concepts and Controversities of Tidal Marsh Ecolgy, Elsevier Press.
   
   
2. Chabbi, A., K. L. McKee and I. A. Mendelssohn. 2000. Fate of oxygen losses from Typha domingensis (Typhaceae) and Cladium jamaicense (Cyperaceae) and consequences for root metabolism. Amer. J. Bot. In press.
   
   
3. Mendelssohn, I.A. and K.L. McKee. 2000. Saltmarshes and Mangroves. pages 501-536 in M. G. Barbour and W. D. Billings, eds. North American Vegetation. Cambridge University Press, New York.
   
   
4. Courtemanche, R.P., M.W. Hester, and I.A. Mendelssohn. 1999. Recovery of a Louisiana barrier island marsh plant community following extensive hurricane-induced overwash. J. Coastal Research. 15:872-883.
   
   
5. Kuhn, N. L., I. A. Mendelssohn, and D. J. Reed. 1999. Altered hydrology effects on Louisiana salt marsh function. Wetlands 19:617-626.