Mailing and Contact Information: Director, Earth Scan Laboratory, Coastal Studies Institute 308A Howe-Russell Geosciences Complex Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA - 70803 Tel:225-578-5331 Fax:225-578-2520 E-mail: nwalker@lsu.edu	Nan D. Walker Associate Professor

Education:

Ph. D. University of Cape Town, Physical Oceanography, 1989
M. S. Louisiana State University, Marine Sciences, 1982
B. S. Duke University, Marine Zoology, 1976

Grants:

• Walker, N. (Co-P.I.) Impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Lake Pontchartrain ecosystem: geochemistry, microbiology, and potential human health effects, (P.I., A. Hou,), National Science Foundation, 9/2005-9/2006, $199,000, funded.
• Walker, N. (P.I.), The Center for Coastal Zone Assessment and Remote Sensing, NASA (Subcontract from Southern University), 2/2003-2/2008, LSU budget $960,000, funded.
• Walker, N. (P.I.), New remote sensing methodologies for the surveillance of ocean features and improved understanding of circulation processes in the Gulf of Mexico, Minerals Management Service Coastal Marine Institute, (of multi-institutional project), September 2002-September 2007, $346,383, funded.
• Walker, N. (P.I.), Deep Water Currents at 92W, Minerals Management Service Coastal Marine Institute, 7/99-2006, $553,286, funded.
• Walker, N. (co-P.I.), Assessment and remediation of public health impacts due to hurricanes and major flooding events, LA Board of Regents (P.I., Ivor van Heerden), April 2002-March 2007, $107,810, funded.
  

Recent Publications:

1. Walker, N.D. and N. N. Rabalais, Relationships among satellite chlorophyll a, river inputs and hypoxia on the Louisiana continental shelf, Gulf of Mexico, Estuaries and Coasts, in press.
   
   
2. Walker, Nan D., Alaric Haag, Shreekanth Balasubramanian, Robert Leben, Ivor van Heerden, Paul Kemp, Hassan Mashriqui, Hurricane Prediction: A Century of Advances, Oceanography, 19, 24-36, 2006.
   
   
3. Walker, N.D., R.R. Leben, S. Balasubramanian, Hurricane-forced upwelling and chlorophyll a enhancement within cold-core cyclones in the Gulf of Mexico, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L18610, doi:10.1029/2005GL023716, 2005.
   
   
4. Walker, Nan D., William J. Wiseman, Lawrence J. Rouse, Jr., and Adele Babin, Seasonal and wind-forced changes in surface circulation, suspended sediments, and temperature fronts of the Mississippi River plume, Louisiana, Journal of Coastal Research, 21, 1228-1244, 2005.
   
   
5. Walker, Nan, Wind- and Eddy-Related Shelf/Slope Circulation Processes and Coastal Upwelling in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico, in: Circulation in the Gulf of Mexico, Wilton Sturges III and Alexis Lugo-Fernandez, Eds., American Geophysical Union Monograph, 295-314, 2005.