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, Assistant 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, Associate 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

Jaye Cable, Associate Professor
Office: 1229 ECE
Phone: (225) 578-9402
E-mail: jcable@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Marine geochemistry, coastal hydrology.

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

Richard Condrey, Associate Professor
Research Interest:
Office: 2161 ECE
Phone: (225) 578-6456
E-mail: coecnd@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Population dynamics, fishery management, and coastal ecology.

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, Assistant 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

Brian Fry, Professor
Office: 1239 ECE
Phone: (225) 578-9403
E-mail: bfry@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Ecosystem ecology.

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

Shih Hsu, Professor
Office: 308A Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex
Phone: (225) 578-2962
E-mail: sahsu@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Coastal and marine meteorology, air-sea interaction.

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
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: 1002Y
Phone: (225) 578-6308
E-mail: oclaro@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Estuarine pollution, microbiology, geomicrobiology, oceanography.

Chunyan Li, Assistant Professor
Office:331 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex
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
Office:216 Howe-Russell Geosciences Complex
Phone: 225-578-5330
E-mail: bliu2@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.

Kam-Biu Liu, Professor
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, Assistant Professor
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
Office:3231 ECE
Phone: (225) 578-8766
E-mail: clinda1@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.

Irving Mendelssohn, Professor
Office:3263 ECE
Phone: (225) 578-6425
E-mail: imendel@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Wetland and barrier island plant ecology, plant physiological ecology.

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, Assistant 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
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
Office:
Phone: (225) 578-6375
E-mail: csasser@lsu.edu
Research Interest: wetland plant ecology, wetland Management

Richard Shaw, Professor
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.

Gregory Stone, Professor
Office:316 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex
Phone:(225) 578-6188
E-mail: gagreg@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Coastal morphodynamics and coastal zone management.

Malinda Sutor, Assistant Professor
Office:2179 ECE
Phone: (225)578-8055
E-mail: msutor1@lsu.edu
Research Interest:

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
Office:3257 ECE
Phone: (225) 578-6431
E-mail: rtwilley@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Systems ecology and biogeochemistry of coastal wetlands both in the Gulf of Mexico and throughout Latin America, Ecosystem modelling, both conceptual and simulation, to forecast the rehabilitation of coastal and wetland ecosystems.

Nan Walker, Associate Professor
Office:308B 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, Assistant 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.

Charles Wilson, Professor, Vice Provost LSU
Office:308B Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex
Phone:(225) 578-6283
E-mail: cwilson@lsu.edu
Research Interest: Fishery science, fisheries biology, artificial reef ecology, mariculture.