College of the Coast & Environment Graduate Student Symposium Winners Announced
May 20, 2021
Each semester, the LSU College of the Coast & Environment hosts a graduate student symposium in which students present their research conducted toward the fulfillment of a degree within the college and compete for prizes. This spring, fourteen graduate students participated and first, second, and third place winners were announced.
- First Place: Emily Shallow
- Second Place: Nazla Bushra
- Third Place: Zoë Shribman
Below is a full list of the participants, including the titles of their presentations.
- Kejin Wang, Twitter Use in Hurricane Isaac and Its Implications to Disaster Resilience
- Allyson Kristan, Paleoecological proxies of sub-Antarctic marine predator populations in a changing climate
- Ashley Rossin, Tissue-level effects of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease on seven Caribbean coral species
- Benjamin Farmer, Spatial biophysical and epidemiological modeling of an emergent Caribbean coral disease
- Elizabeth Harris, Factors Influencing Subsurface Wetland Dynamics in Coastal Louisiana: Implications for Wetland Response to Sea-level rise and Restoration.
- Emily Shallow, Identifying ontogenetic shifts in primary energy pathways of invasive red lionfish, Pterois volitans, in the Florida Keys via stable isotope and otolith analysis
- Gourav Divan, Mapping Plastic Pollution in the Amite Watershed, Louisiana
- Jennifer Argote, Reducing Flood Hazard and Loss with the National Flood Insurance Program and the community Rating System
- Lindsey Lamana, Socio-ecological Network Analysis of Existing Plans in the Upper-Pontchartrain Basin
- Nazla Bushra, Characterizing the Northern Hemisphere Circumpolar Vortex through Space and Time
- Shannon Nelson, Hydrometeorological Responses to Abrupt Land Surface Change Following Hurricane Michael
- Yadav Sapkota, Soil organic matter deposition in highly eroding coastal wetlands experiencing high relative sea-level rise
- Zoe Shribman, Predicting blue carbon sequestration with belowground biomass: model verification in South Florida’s mangroves
- Michael Jacobs, Abiotic Stressors of Phragmites australis haplotypes in the Lower Mississippi River Delta: Implications for die-back.
This article highlights just some of the LSU College of the Coast & Environment’s many scholarships and awards recipients. View the list on our website.