Mailing and Contact Information: 2173 Energy, Coast & Environment Building Coastal Ecology Institute Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA - 70803 Tel:225-578-6454 Fax:225-578-6326 E-mail: euturne@lsu.edu	Eugene R. Turner Professor

Education:

Ph. D. Monmouth College, Zoology, 1967
M. A. Drake University, Zoology, 1969
B. A. University of Georgia, Zoology, 1974

Grants:

• Low-Cost Wetland Restoration, US Army COE.
• Predicting Coastal land loss at the scale of distrubance, (Louisiana Board of Regents).
• Historical Reconstruction of hypoxia in Charlotte harbor estuary.
• Southwest Florida Water Management. District Nitrogen budget for Lake Pontchartrain. Hypoxia studies (off the Louisiana coast); NOAA, EPA, Coastal Ocean Program.
• Hypoxia studies (off the Louisiana coast); NOAA, EPA, Coastal Ocean Program.
  

Recent Publications:

1. Turner, R. E. and B. Streever, 2002. Approaches to Coastal Wetland Restoration: Northern Gulf of Mexico. SPB Academic Publishing, Den Hague, Netherlands. 147 pp
   
   
2. Rabalais, N. N. and R. E. Turner (eds.). 2001. Coastal Hypoxia: Consequences for Living Resources and Ecosystems. Coastal and Estuarine Studies Series Vol. 58, American Geophysical Union. Washington, D.C. 463 pp.
   
   
3. Turner, R. E. 1999. Shrimp and salmon farming (LTE). Science 283:640.
   
   
4. Turner, R. E., N. Qureshi, N. N. Rabalais, Q. Dortch, D. Justic, R. Shaw and J. Cope 1998. Fluctuating silicate:nitrate ratios and coastal plankton food webs. Proc. National Academy of Sciences (USA) 95:13048-13051.
   
   
5. Turner, R. E. 1997. Wetland loss in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Multiple working hypotheses. Estuaries 20:1-13.