Lipsey Awardees

James H. Blackmon, Jr.
1978
Major Professor: James Gosselink

Marc E. Crandall
1979
Major Professor: Leonard M. Bahr
Title: The Effect of predation on Subtidal Benthos Populations I Lake Ponchartrain, Louisiana

Richard L. Crout
1980
Major Professor: William J. Wiseman, Jr.
Title: Wind-Driven, Near-Bottom Currents Over The West Louisiana Inner continental Shelf

G. Paul Kemp
1981
Major Professor: John T. Wells, Jr
Title: Mud Deposition at the Shoreface: Wave and Sediment Dynamics on the Chenier Plain of Louisiana

Ivor van Heerden
1982
Major Professor: Harry H. Roberts
Title: Deltaic Sedimentation in Eastern Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana

Linda A. Deegan
1983
Major Professor: John W. Day, Jr.
Title: The Population Ecology and Nutrient Cycling of Gulf Menhaden in Fourleague Bay, Louisiana

James H. Cowan, Jr.
1984
Major Professor(s): Eugene R. Turner & Richard F. Shaw
Title: The Distribution, Transport, and Age Structure of Drums (Family Sciaenidae) spawned in the Winter and Early spring in the Continental Shelf Waters Off West Louisiana

Billy J. Good
1985
Major Professor: William H. Patrick, Jr.

Gary P. Shaffer
1986
Major professor: James Gosselink

David M. Burdick
1987
Major Professor: Irving A. Mendelssohn

Gail L. Chmura
1988
Major Professor: William H. Patrick, Jr.

Daniel L. Childers
1989
Major Professor: John W. Day, Jr.
Title: Marsh-Water Column Interactions in Two Louisiana Estuaries: Flux Measurements and Conceptual Implications

Patrick M. Masscheleyn
1990
Major Professor: William H. Patrick, Jr.

Kathryn Flynn
1991
Major professor: Irving A. Mendelssohn
Title: Effects of Hydrological Alterations on the Vegetation and Soils of Marshes in Southern Louisiana

Thomas E. Helser
1992
Major professor: Richard E. Condrey
Title: Development of Various Quantitative and Analytical Methods for the Analysis of the Dynamics of Fish Populations: An Application to the Spotted Seatrout Population in Coastal Louisiana

David R. Stanley
1992
Major professor: Charles A. Wilson
Title: Seasonal and Spatial Abundance and Size Distribution of Fishes Associated with a Petroleum Platform in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

John C. Callaway
1993
Major professor: William H. Patrick, Jr.
Title: Sedimentation Processes in Selected Coastal Wetlands from the Gulf of Mexico and Northern Europe

John M. Rybczyk
1994
Major professor: John W. Day, Jr.

Sidina Ould Dedah
1995
Major professor: Richard Shaw
Title: Modelling A Multispecies Schooling Fishery in an Upwelling Environment, Mauritania, West Africa

Michael L. Parsons
1995
Major Professor: Quay Dortch
Title: Paleoindicators of Changing Water Conditions in Louisiana Estuaries

Johan C. Sydow
1996
Major Professor: Harry H. Roberts
Title: Holocene to Late Pleistocene Stratigraphy of the Mahakam Delta, Kalimantan, Indonesia

Jessica Kastler
1997
Eugene R. Turner
Title: Interactions of Minerals and Organic Materials Along the Salinity Gradient in Barataria Basin, Louisiana

Janake de Silva
1998
Major professor: Richard Condrey
Title: The Nature and Extent of Species Interactions with the U.S. Gulf Menhaden Fishery

Megan K. Greiner (LaPeyre)
1999
Major Professor(s): rving A. Mendelssohn & Margaret Reams
Title: Factors Influencing State and Nationa Wetland Management: Building Effective Management Models

Terry Schafer
2000
Major Professor(s): Masamichi Inoue & James Powers
Title: A Drifter Study of Advection, Deformations, and Patch Variances with Application to Larval Transport and Dispersal in Barataria Bay, Louisiana

Heather Haas
2001
Major Professor: Richard Shaw
Title: Statistical and Simulation Modeling of Brown Shrimp Population dynamics in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Theodore Switzer
2002
Major Professor: Donald Baltz
Title: The Ecology of Two Estuarine-Dependent Tonguefishes, the Blackcheek Tonguefish (symphurus plagiusa) and the Offshiore Tonguefish (S. civitatium), in Coastal Louisiana

Cara E. Miller
2003
Major Professor: Donald Baltz
Title: Abundance Tyrends and Environmental Habitat Usage Patterns of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops strncates)

Lee Stanton
2003
Major Professor: Irving Mendelssohn
Title: The Establishment, Expansion and Ecosystem Effects of Phragmites Australis, A Native Invasive Species in Coastal Louisiana

Alisa Maier Brown
2004
Major Professor(s): Quay Dortch & Dubravko Justic

Zoraida J. Quinones
2005
Major Professor: Dubravko Justic
Title: Investigating Sources and Sinks of Oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico's Hypoxic Zone Using a Stable Oxygen Isotope Approach

Gregg Snedden
2006
Major Professor: Jaye Cable
Title: River, Tidal, and Wind Interactions in a Deltaic Esturine System

Shaye E. Sable
2006
Major Professor: Kenneth Rose
Title: Comparison and Application of Individual-based and Matrix Projection Models for Simulating Fish Population and Community Dynamics

Robert David Wells
2007
Major Professor: James Cowan
Title: The Effects of Trawling and Habitat Use on Red Snapper and the Associated Community

Whitney Broussard
2008
Major Professor: Eugene Turner
Title: A Century of Land Use and Water Quality in Watersheds of the Continental U.S.