Dr. Kam-biu Liu Ph.D.

George William Barineau III Professor Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences. Research Interests: Paleotempestology, Coastal paleoecology, Ice-core paleoclimatology, Global environmental change, Palynology and lake-sediments.

Patrick Stoudt

Patrick is a Business Major at LSU looking forward to learning more about the Global Paleoecology Lab. Check back for more information soon.

Terrence McCloskey

My main interest is in learning more about the behavior of North Atlantic hurricanes over various time scales. Particularly interesting is the possibility of climate driven changes in hurricane frequency in the Caribbean from the mid Holocene on. I am currently attempting to establish paleo-strike records for a number of sites in the western and southern Caribbean.

Qiang Yao

Qiang will conduct his dissertation research in paleotempestology with the goal of producing well-validated empirical data on hurricane return periods in Louisiana and the adjacent Gulf coast region. These data are vital to improved risk assessment and economic development in our state.

Thomas Bianchette

Thomas’s previous research dealt with the paleo-hurricane record of Gulf Shores, Alabama using paleotempestological principles and methods.  He continues to work on similar studies at Port Fourchon, Louisiana and Weeks Bay, Alabama, and he hopes to study eastern north Pacific hurricanes and paleo-hurricane records at western Mexico for his dissertation work.