Louisiana State University (LSU) was awarded $10 million to recognize and support its research expertise relevant to the oil-spill crisis, including its environmental science and ecology, engineering, coastal science and humanities departments. After multiple rounds of a rigorously peer-reviewed competition, LSU funded thirty-one projects in two formal rounds of proposals, with the majority of the grant dollars committed to researchers across campus. Key players include LSU’s School of the Coast & Environment, as well as the Colleges of Engineering and Science, though other units are represented. For additional information, read the LSU press release.
31 Projects
Principal Investigator:: Mark Benfield — Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
An Interdisciplinary Topic Map for Understanding the Impact of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Incident
Principal Investigator:: Yejun Wu — Louisiana State University, School of Library and Information Science
Principal Investigator:: Chunyan Li — Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
Principal Investigator:: R. Turner — Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
Principal Investigator:: Jim Wang — Louisiana State University, Aquaculture Research Station
Principal Investigator:: Donald Baltz — Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
Member Institutions: Louisiana State University, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium
Principal Investigator:: Christopher D’Elia — Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
Principal Investigator:: Katie Cherry — Louisiana State University, Department of Psychology
Principal Investigator:: Kelley Pace — Louisiana State University, Department of Finance
Principal Investigator:: Andrew Whitehead — Louisiana State University, Department of Biological Sciences
Principal Investigator:: Qianxin Lin — Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
Principal Investigator:: Wanjun Wang — Louisiana State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Principal Investigator:: Kevin Kleinow — Louisiana State University, Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences
Principal Investigator:: Mark Benfield — Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
Principal Investigator:: Richard Kurtz — Louisiana State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Member Institutions: Canadian Light Source, Louisiana State University
Principal Investigator:: Qianxin Lin — Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
Principal Investigator:: John Smith — Louisiana State University, Department of Petroleum Engineering
Principal Investigator:: Linda Hooper-Bui — Louisiana State University, Department of Entomology
Principal Investigator:: Gary King — Louisiana State University, Department of Biological Sciences
Principal Investigator:: Sumanta Acharya — Louisiana State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Principal Investigator:: Kermit Murray — Louisiana State University, Department of Chemistry
Principal Investigator:: Ying Wang — Louisiana State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Principal Investigator:: Edward Laws — Louisiana State University, Department of Environmental Sciences
Principal Investigator:: John Pardue — Louisiana State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Principal Investigator:: Nan Walker — Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
Principal Investigator:: Christopher Kenny — Louisiana State University, Department of Political Science
Principal Investigator:: Christopher Green — Louisiana State University, Aquaculture Research Station
Member Institutions: Louisiana State University, Texas Tech University
Principal Investigator:: Troy Blanchard — Louisiana State University, Department of Sociology
Principal Investigator:: Dandino Rao — Louisiana State University, Department of Petroleum Engineering
Principal Investigator:: Tim Slack — Louisiana State University, Department of Sociology
Principal Investigator:: Robert Gambrell — Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
