FY2006-FY2010 Projects

FY2006

Project Name Principal Investigators
A Pilot Study on Modeling and Management of Hurricane- Accelerated Saltwater Encroachment in Coastal Aquifers Frank Tsai
Assessment of the Impact of Hurricane Katrinas and Ritas storm surges on the Southern Hills Aquifer System in Southern St. Tammany and Tangipahoa Parishes Thomas Van Biersel, Douglas Carlson, Loyd Milner
GIS-Aided Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment System for Lake Pontchartrain Zhi-Qiang Deng

 

FY 2007

Project Name Principal Investigators
Scale-Dependent Behavior and Modeling of Nitrogen Retention in Streams Zhi-Qiang Deng, Donald Adrian
Discerning nutrient limitations to phytoplankton growth in rivers and bayous on the North shore of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Sarah Fearnley
Information Transfer Symposia: Mitigation of Storm Surge using Vegetation (Spring, 2007) and Resilient Environmental Infrastructure for Coastal Communities (Fall, 2007) John Pardue, Nedra Korevec

 

FY 2008

Project Name Principal Investigators
Information Transfer Symposia: Mitigation of Storm Surge using Vegetation (Spring, 2007) and Resilient Environmental Infrastructure for Coastal Communities (Fall, 2007) John Pardue, Nedra Korevec
2008 Louisiana Water Symposia John Pardue, Nedra Korevec
Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) Laboratory Experiments on Saltwater Encroachment Tracking and Modeling in Saturated Heterogeneous Sediment Frank Tsai
Uncertainty-based TMDL Calculations for Dissolved Oxygen in Amite River Zhi-Qiang Deng
Field Monitoring of Environmental Contaminants of Toxic Metals in Lake Pontchartrain and Ground Water Ju Chou

 

FY2009

Project Name Principal Investigators
Information Transfer Symposia: Mitigation of Storm Surge using Vegetation (Spring, 2007) and Resilient Environmental Infrastructure for Coastal Communities (Fall, 2007) John Pardue, Nedra Korevec
Field Monitoring of Environmental Contaminants of Toxic Metals in Lake Pontchartrain and Ground Water Ju Chou
Modeling Turbulent Enhancement of Sediment Transport Heather Smith
Bayesian Model Averaging for Saltwater Intrusion Management under Model Uncertainty Frank Tsai
Fecal Coliform TMDL Development for Holly Beach Zhi-Qiang Deng
2009 Louisiana Water Symposia John Pardue

 

FY 2010

Project Name Principal Investigators
 Information Transfer Symposia: Mitigation of Storm Surge using Vegetation (Spring, 2007) and Resilient Environmental Infrastructure for Coastal Communities (Fall, 2007)  John Pardue, Nedra Korevec
 2008 Louisiana Water Symposia  John Pardue, Nedra Korevec
 Modeling Turbulent Enhancement of Sediment Transport  Heather Smith
 Bayesian Model Averaging for Saltwater Intrusion Management under Model Uncertainty  Frank Tsai
 2009 Louisiana Water Symposia  John Pardue
 Development of an active cap for the sequestration of mercury in contaminated lake sediments in Louisiana  K.T. Valsaraj, Ronald DeLaune
Wave-induced transport through coastal vegetation Heather Smith
Multimodel uncertainty analysis for chance-constrained saltwater intrusion management Frank Tsai
Scale-dependent behavior and modeling of dissolved oxygen in coastal Louisiana rivers Zhi-Qiang Deng