Faculty Professors

Christopher D’Elia – Dean and Professor (cross-appointed)
Office: 1002R
Phone: (225) 578-8574
E-mail: cdelia@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Nutrient dynamics in aquatic systems; estuarine ecology; coral reef ecology; algal/invertebrate symbiosis; science policy; math and science education; marine pollution; global climate change; analytical chemistry; energy policy.

Donald Baltz - Professor, Coastal Fisheries
Office: 2173 ECE
Phone: (225) 578-6512
E-mail: dbaltz@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Fish ecology, life history, and habitat selection, marine vertebrates, acoustics.

Sibel Bargu Ates, Associate Professor
Office: 1235 ECE
Phone:(225) 578-0029
E-mail: sbargu@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Phytoplankton Ecology, Harmful algal blooms and food web interactions.

Mark Benfield, Professor
Office: 2271 ECE
Phone: (225) 578-6372
E-mail: mbenfie@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Shrimp life history and ecology, zooplankton ecology, larval transport and dynamics

Robert Carney, Professor
Office: 2211 ECE
Phone: (225) 578-6511
E-mail: rcarne1@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Biological oceanography, research administration.

James Cowan, Jr., Professor
Office: 2247 ECE
Phone: (225) 578-9400
E-mail: jhcowan@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Fisheries ecology, biological and fisheries oceanography, biometrics.

Eurico D'Sa, Associate Professor
Office: 320 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex
Phone: (225) 578-0212
E-mail: ejdsa@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Marine optics, Satellite remote sensing, Bio-optical oceanography, Coastal biogeochemical properties using optical measurements.

Ron DeLaune , Professor-Research
Office: 3171 ECE
Phone: (225) 578-6421
E-mail: rdelaun@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Wetland Biogeochemistry, coastal processes, biogeochemical cycling, non-point source pollution, coastal restoration, soil-plant interactions, coastal marsh stability, sedimentation processes, wetland plant ecology, degradation and bioremediation of toxic organics, heavy metal chemistry, ecotoxicology, greenhouse gases

Robert Gambrell, Professor
Office: 3173 ECE
Phone: (225) 578-6426
E-mail: gambrell@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Environmental chemistry of soils, sediment-water systems.

Haosheng Huang, Assistant Professor
Office: 320 Howe Russell Geoscience Complex
Phone: (225) 578-5117
E-mail: hhuang7@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Physical oceanography, circulation in regional seas and continental shelves, coastal and estuarine circulation dynamics, unstructured grid numerical modeling and data assimilation, tide and storm surge simulation, bio-physical interaction and ecosystem modeling.

Dubravko Justic, Professor, Texaco Distinguished Professor
Office: 2221 ECE
Phone: (225) 578-6394
E-mail: djusti1@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Ecosystem modeling, biological oceanography, climate change, coastal marine eutrophication, hypoxia, impacts of climate change on coastal ecosystems.

Paul LaRock, Professor
Office: 3275 ECE
Phone: (225) 578-2672
E-mail: oclaro@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Estuarine pollution, microbiology, geomicrobiology, oceanography.

Chunyan Li, Associate Professor, Distinguished Professorship
Office:208C Howe-Russell Geoscience Comples
Phone: (225) 578-3619
E-mail: cli@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Physical oceanography, transport, coastal and estuarine circulations, innovative observations, modeling, extreme weather (such as hurricane) induced water level change including storm surges.

Baozhu Liu, Assistant Professor-Research
Office:216 Howe-Russell Geosciences Complex
Phone: 225-578-5330
E-mail: bliu2@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Coastal Sedimentology; Statigraphy and paleoenvironments along the coastal zone and on the continental shelf; Paleocurrent and sedimentary paleoenvironments using anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS); Late Quaternary paleoenvironment evolution

Kam-Biu Liu, Chair and Professor, Distinguished Professorship
Office:3277 ECE
Phone:(225) 578-6136
E-mail: kliu1@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Thematic: Paleotempestology, coastal paleoecology, ice-core paleoclimatology, global environmental change, palynology and lake-sediments, Regional: U.S. Gulf Coast and Atlantic coast, Caribbean region and Central America, South America (Andes and Amazon Basin), Tibetan Plateau, Central Asia (Mongolia and Kazakhstan), China, Africa.

Qianxin Lin, Associate Professor-Research
Office:3265 ECE
Phone:(225) 578-8889
E-mail: comlin@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Coastal plant ecology, plant-soil interactions, plant eco-physiology of environmental stresses, environmental chemistry of organic pollutants in wetlands, and remediation and restoration of oil spills in wetlands.

Charles Lindau, Professor/Graduate Advisor
Office:3231 ECE
Phone: (225) 578-8766
E-mail: clinda1@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Nitrogen transformations in flooded soils and sediments, stable isotopes, greenhouse gases, oil spill remediaton, point and non-point pollution, denirtification process.

Kanchan Maiti, Assistant Professor
Office: 1143 ECE
Phone: (225) 578-4531
E-mail: kmaiti@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Marine geochemistry, Environmental radiochemistry, Upper ocean carbon flux, Marine particle dynamics.

Joseph E. Powers, Associate Professor
Office:2147 ECE
Phone:(225) 578-7659
E-mail: jepowers@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Fisheries stock assessment and fisheries management, including modeling of recruitment variability; ecosystem criteria in fisheries management; examination of ecosystem structure in response to fishery exploitation; and the applications of game theory to the theory and practice of fisheries management.

Victor Hugo Rivera-Monroy, Associate Professor
Office:3209 ECE
Phone: (225) 578-2745
E-mail: vhrivera@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Estuarine and coastal ecosystems, biogeochemistry of wetlands, landscape modelling/ecosystem models, coastal management/aquaculture.

Kenneth Rose, Professor, Distinguished Professorship
Office: 2135 ECE
Phone: (225) 578-6346
E-mail: karose@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Mathematical and computer modeling of aquatic populations, communities, food webs, and ecosystems; use of models for both theoretical and applied analyses, such as ecological risk assessment and fisheries management.

Lawrence Rouse, Associate Professor
Office:318 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex
Phone: (225) 578-2953
E-mail: lrouse@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Remote sensing, physical oceanography.

Charles Sasser, Professor-Research
Office: 2199 ECE
Phone: (225) 578-6375
E-mail: csasser@lsu.edu
Research Interest: wetland plant ecology, wetland Management

Richard Shaw, Professor/Associate Dean
Office:2177 ECE
Phone: (225) 578-6734
E-mail: rshaw@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Ichthyoplankton and juvenile fish ecology, growth and mortality estimates, larval fish transport and recruitment mechanisms, essential fisheries habitat for early life history stages, global climate change.

Malinda Sutor, Assistant Professor-Research
Office:2265 ECE
Phone: (225)578-8055
E-mail: msutor1@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Plankton ecology and physiology, Physical-biological interactions, Mechanisms controlling plankton distributions, Use of acoustic technologies for resolving zooplankton distributions

Eugene Turner, Professor
Office:1205 ECE
Phone:(225) 578-6454
E-mail: euturne@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Biological oceanography, environmental management, estuarine ecology, wetlands.

Robert Twilley, Professor and Executive Director Sea Grant
Office: 239 Sea Grant Building
Phone:(225) 578-6445
E-mail: twilley@lsu.edu
Research Interest: System ecology and biogeochemistry of coastal wetlands, conceptual and simulation models, coastal ecosystem restoration, nutrient dynamics

Nan Walker, Associate Professor, Distinguished Professorship
Office:308A Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex
Phone:(225) 578-5331
E-mail: nwalker@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Gulf of Mexico Loop Current and eddy circulation processes, satellite oceanography, physical processes of estuaries, coastal regions, river plumes and upper ocean mixed layer, air-sea interactions associated with tropical and extra-tropical storms, coastal upwelling, physical processes affecting coral reef structure and health, ocean climatology.

John White, Associate Professor
Office:3239 ECE
Phone:(225) 578-8792
E-mail: jrwhite@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Biogeochemical cycling of nutrients (N & P) in natural/constructed wetlands, estuaries, and lake sytems; water quality, pharmaceutical loading to wetlands, nutrient flux from sediments (internal loading), plant-soil relationships.

Kehui (Kevin) Xu, Assistant Professor, James P. Morgan Distinguished Professorship
Office: 316 Howe Russell Geoscience Complex
Phone:(225) 578-0389
E-mail: kxu@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Geological oceanography, coastal morphodynamics, observation and numerical modeling of sediment transport along bottom boundary layer; sedimentary geology; coastal processes.