Current Students

Brenda Leroux Babin
Major Professors: Dr. Dubravko Justic and Dr. Nancy N Rabalais
Degree: Ph.D.
Dissertation Topic: Factors Affecting Short-Term Oxygen Variability in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Zone

Melissa M. Baustian
Major Professor: Nancy Rabalais
Degree: Ph.D.
Thesis/Disseration Title: Benthic primary production in the Gulf of Mexico hypoxia region

Thomas Bianchette
Major Professor: Liu
Degree: Ph.D.

Christian Briseno
Major Professor: Mark C. Benfield
Degree: M.S.
Thesis/Dissertation title: Multi species patchiness in the Georges Bank using the Video Plankton Recorder

Harmon Brown
Major Professor: Benfield
Degree: Ph.D.

Jane Buck
Major Professor: Mendelssohn
Degree: M.S.

Jody Callihan
Advisor: Jim Cowan
Degree: Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Movement patterns and population structure of spotted seatrout, Cynoscion nebulosus, in Louisiana coastal waters Research interest: marine fisheries ecology

Edward Castaneda
Major professor: Twilley
Degree: Ph.D.

Jeremy Landon Conkle
Major Professor: John White
Thesis/Disseration Title: Pharmaceuticals in the Aquatic Environment
Degree: M.S.

Jennifer Coor
Major Professor:  Chunyan Li
Thesis/Disseration Title: Analysis of ADCP stations in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
Degree: M.S.

Sean Creekmore
Major Professor: Rose
Degree: M.S.

Jessica Czubakowski
Major Professor: Bargu
Degree: M.S.

Anindita Das
Major Professor: Dr. Dubravko Justic
Degree: Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Modeling the Impacts of Mississippi River Divesions on Water Quality in the Barataria Bay Estuary

Padmanava Dash
Major Professor: Dr. Nan D. Walker
Research Interest: Remote Sensing of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs)
Degree: Ph.D.
Tentative Dissertaion Title: "Quantitative Mapping of Cyanobacterial Blooms from Satellite data: An Empirical Approach"

Ross Del Rio(MER pres)
Major Professor(s): Baltz, Bargu
Degree: M.S.

Kim DeMutsert
Major Professor: Cowan
Degree: P h.D.

Yi Du
Major Professor: Huang
Degree: Ph.D.

Clint Edrington
Major Professor: Roberts
Degree: Ph.D.

Robert Ellis
Major Professor: Ellis
Degree: M.S.

Zhixuan Feng
Major Professor: Li
Degree: M.S.

Angelina Freeman
Major Professor: Dr. Harry Roberts
Degree: Ph.D.
Thesis/Disseration Title: High resolution acoustic characterizaion and hurricane impact analysis of a coastal bay bottom and its shallow subsurface geology

Ana Garcias
Major Professor: bargu
Degree: M.S.

Steven Garners
Major Professor: Shaw
Degree: M .S.

Carey Gelpi
Major Professor: Condrey
Degree: Ph.D.

Sean Graham
Major Professor: Mendelssohn
Degree: Ph.D.

Walter Guidroz
Major Professor: Greg Stone
Degree: Ph.D.
Thesis/Disseration Title: Subaqueous, Hurricane-Initiated Shelf Failure Morphodynamics Along the Mississippi River Delta Front, North-Central Gulf of Mexico

Melissa Hedges
Major Professor: Powers
Degree: Ph.D.

Kelly Henry
Major Professor: Twilley
Degree: P h.D.

Devyani Kar
Major Professor: Liu
Degree: Ph.D.

Chester keating
Major Professor: Cable
Degree: M.S.

Kari Klotzbach
Major Professor: Cowan
Degree: M.S.

Daijiro Kobashi
Major Professor: Stone
Degree: Ph.D.

Dannielle Kulaw
Major Professor: Cowan
Degree: M.S.

Matthew Kupchick
Major Professor: Shaw
Degree: M.S.

Lauren Land
Major professor: Gambrell
Degree: M.S.

Jennifer Lasseigne
major Professor: Rabalais
Degree: Ph.D.

Peter Lenaker
Major Professor: Twilley
Degree: M.S.

Jennifer Lentz
Major Professor: Nan Walker
Thesis/Dissertation Title: Using GIS and Remote Sensing to better understand Acropora diseases in Puerto Rico & the Virgin Islands

Chris Lundberg
Major Professor: Day
Degree: Ph.D.

Brett Marks
Major Professor: White
Degree: M.S.

Terrence McCloskey
Major Professor: Liu
Degree: Ph.D.

Michael McDonough
Major Professor: Cowan
Degree: M.S.

Brain Milan
Major Professor: Shaw
Degree: M.S.

Matthew Moerschbaecher
Major Professor: Day
Degree: Ph.D.

Zahid Muhammad
Major Professor: Samuel J. Bentley and Harry H. Roberts
Thesis/Disseration Title: Late Quaternary sedimentation in the Gulf of Papua
Degree: M.S.

Puneeta Naik
Major Professor: D'Sa
Degree: Ph.D.

Courtney Nosach
Major Professor: Cowan
Degree: M.S.

Tiffany Pasco
Major Professor: Baltz
Degree: Ph.D.

Whitney Pate
Major Professor: Mendelssohn
Degree: Ph.D.

Shaofeng Pei
Major Professor: Laws
Degree: P h.D.

Bryan Piazza
Major Professor:  Megan LaPeyre
Degree: Ph.D.
Dissertation Title:  The role of climate variability in the community dynamics of estuarine nekton.

Lorna Putnam
Major Professor: Robert Gambrell
Degree: Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Nitrogen Transformations and Microbial Diversity of the Marshland Upwelling System in Intermediate and Saltwater Marshes

Joao Rego
Major Professor: CHUNYAN LI
Degree: Ph.D.
Disseration Topic: STORM SURGE NUMERICAL MODELING

Julie Dean Rosati
Major Professor: Dr. Gregory W. Stone
Degree: Ph.D.
Dissertation Title:  "EVOLUTION OF NATURAL AND STABILIZED BARRIER ISLANDS ACCOUNTING FOR MIGRATION BY EPISODIC AND LONG-TERM PROCESSES AND CONSOLIDATION OF THE UNDERLYING SEDIMENT"  

Agatha-Marie (Arie) Roth
Major Professor: Donald M. Baltz
Degree: Ph.D.
Research: Fish and invertebrate ecology at the marsh edge in Barataria Bay, LA

Elin Sandy
Major professor: Baltz
Degree: M.S.

Devereaux E. Sellers II
Major Professor: Kenny Rose
Thesis Topic: Top Down versus Bottom Up Effects in food webs upon removal of the top predator(s)
Degree: M.S.

Abeare Shane
Major Professor: Powers
Degree: M.S.

Katherine Shepard
Major Professor: Rose
Degree: P h.D.

Kirsten Simonsen
Major Professor:Dr. Jim Cowan
Degree: Ph.D.
Thesis Title / Interests:  Fish community structure over an artificial oyster reef in Barataria Bay, Louisiana,
including dietary analysis and usage of artificial reef by commercially and recreationally important species.  

Mousavi Siadat
Major Professor: Stone
Degree: Ph.D.

Carrie Sinclair
Major Professor: Condrey
Degree: M.S.

Shatrughan Singh
Major Professor: D'Sa
Degree: M.S.

Amy L. Spaziani
Research Interest: Coastal and shelf geomorphology and sedimentology, and Quaternary stratigraphy. 
Degree: M.S.

Camille Stagg
Major Professor: Irving Mendelssohn
Degree: Ph.D.
Dissertation is "Remediating the Effects of Global Climate Change on Salt Marsh Function"

Andrew Tweel
Major Professor: Turner
Degree: Ph.D.

Brian Vosburg
Major professor: Roberts
Degree: M.S.

Jonathan Willis
Major Professor: Gambrell
Degree: Ph.D.

Qiang Yao (Joe)
Major Professor: Liu
Degree: Ph.D.

Michelle Zapp
Major Prof: Jim Cowan
Degree: Ph.D.
Dissertation Subject: Gulf of Mexico Red Snapper Otolith Microchemistry