ARNOLD H. BOUMA
LSU Department of Geology and Geophysics.
Research Interest: Marine depositional environmental settings,
environmental geology.

KEVIN CARMAN
LSU Department of Biological Sciences
Research Interest: Aquatic microbial ecology, interactions between
marine sedimentary organisms and benthic metazoa, and epibiotic
bacteria and their crustacean hosts.

PIERS CHAPMAN
Director, CREST Office
Research Interest: Upwelling systems, large-scale ocean tracers,
marine chemistry.

RUSSELL L. CHAPMAN
Dean, School of the Coast and Environment.
Research Interest: Algal ultrastructure and phylogeny, biology of
the Trentepohliaceae (Chlorophyta), ribosomal gene sequencing and
molecular evolution in algae and bryophytes.

EDWARD CHESNEY
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
Research Interest: Fisheries and aquaculture.

MICHAEL J. DAGG
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
Research Interest: Biological oceanography and zooplankton ecology.

QUAY DORTCH
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
Research Interest: Phytoplankton ecology, nutrient cycling,
eutrophication.

STEPHEN P. FAULKNER
Wetland Biogeochemistry Institute.
Research Interest: Wetland biogeochemical processes, hydric soils,
wetland delineation and functional assessment, wetlands restoration.

CHRISTOPHER FINELLI
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
Research Interest: Benthic ecology and physical-biological coupling,
turbulent water flow in odor-mediated foraging, suspension feeding.

JOHN FLEEGER
George C. Kent Professor of Biological Sciences at LSU.
Research Interest: Ecology of the marine benthos, abundance patterns
of meiofauna and small macrofauna, and interactions of aromatic
hydrocarbons and metals on an estuarine food chain.

YOKO FURUKAWA
Stennis Space Center, MS.
Research Interest: Early diagenesis of aquatic sediments; analysis
and reaction-transport models for carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.

JAMES GEAGHAN
LSU Department of Experimental Statistics.
Research Interest: Statistics and biometrics, fisheries sciences,
aquatic ecology, computer science.

MEGAN LAPEYRE
U.S. Geological Survey, LA.
Research Interest: Fish habitat.

KAREN MCKEE
USGS National Wetlands Research Center.
Research Interest: Mangrove ecology.

ANDY NYMAN
LSU Institute of Forest, Wildlife, and Fisheries.
School of Renewable Natural Resources
Research Interest:The response of wetland ecosystems to hydraulic
alteration, global sea level rise, or pollution.

RALPH PORTIER
Chairman, LSU Dept. of Environmental Sciences,
Distinguished Professor in Louisiana Environmental Studies.
Research Interest: Fate and effect of carcinogens in fresh water and
marine environments, bioremidiation.

RODNEY POWELL
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
Research Interest: Biogeochemistry of trace elements in aqueous
systems

NANCY N. RABALAIS
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
Research Interest: Marine and estuarine ecology, river/ocean
interaction, benthic ecology, biological oceanography.

MARGARET A. REAMS
LSU Institute for Environmental Sciences.
Research Interest: Public policy relating to environmental and water
affairs, evaluation of environmental policies, policy analysis and
implementation, comparative environmental policy, environmental risk
analysis.

ENRIQUE REYES
University of New Orleans.
Research Interest: Ecosystem modeling, landscape ecology, systems
ecology, coastal management, wetlands.

PAUL W. SAMMARCO
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
Research Interest: Interdisciplinary marine research, larval
dispersal and recruitment process, chemical ecology, bioerosion.

CHARLES SASSER
Coastal Ecology Institute.
Research Interest: Coastal ecology, plant ecology, evolutionary
biology