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Theses from 2023

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Reef Fish Movement Dynamics and Recruitment to Artificial Habitat, Jade Carver

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Vegetation and Habitat Classification of Created and Natural Brackish Marshes via Unoccupied Aerial Systems and Potential Monitoring Applications, Seth T. Chapman

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Coral Reproduction in the Equatorial Eastern Pacific: Reproductive Trends and Seasonal Parameters, Susan Beth Colley

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Effects of Coastal Freshening on Porewater Salinity and Nitrogen Cycling in Brackish Marsh Soils: Implications for Biogeochemical Resilience in Barataria Basin, LA, Robert C. Feder

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Controls of Physical Drivers on the Formation and Toxicity of Harmful Cyanobacteria Blooms (CyanoHABs), Courtney N. Hammond

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Atmospheric Impacts from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Charles Philip Johnson

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Ecology of Viruses in Marine and Coastal Oxygen-depleted Waters, Sophie Jurgensen

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Biophysical mechanisms of larval retention in reef-building corals, Benjamin D. Limer

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Tracing Energy Pathways through Coastal Wetland Food Webs, Katherine Loesser

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Quantifying Mud Settling Velocity as a Function of Turbulence and Salinity in a Deltaic Estuary, Michael W. McDonell

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Sediment Transport and Geomorphological Evolution in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Kelli Moran

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Impact of Sediment Diversion for Coastal Restoration on Nitrogen and Phosphorus Biogeochemical Cycling in Coastal Louisiana, USA, Mercedes M. Pinzon Delgado

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20-YEAR ASSESSMENT OF TOTAL SUSPENDED SEDIMENT (TSS) VARIABILITY IN BARATARIA BAY FROM MODIS OCEAN COLOR USING A COMBINATION OF ADAPTIVE SEMI-ANALYTICAL AND NEURAL NETWORK ALGORITHMS, Bijaylaxmi Sahoo

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Silica Concentrations in Dominant Vegetation Species of Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana, Danielle M. Soileau

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Communicating Nature-Society Relationships in Coastal Louisiana: An Evaluation of the Ecosystem Services Framework, Vanessa van Heerden

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A Spatiotemporal Evaluation of Estuarine-Coastal Carbon and Nutrient Interactions and Lateral Fluxes in Deltaic Regions Undergoing Growth and Deterioration Phases in Coastal Louisiana, USA, Ivan Alexis Vargas-Lopez

Theses from 2022

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Characterizing Habitat Suitability for Gulf Sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi) in Southern Louisiana, Jenna N. Brogdon

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A Lagrangian particle model with nesting capability and its application to the modeling of plastics in the Gulf of Mexico, weiyuan dong

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Assessing the Current State of Louisiana's Crawfish Fishery: Trends and Challenges in Wild Capture and Aquaculture, Mahala G. Gambill

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Seasonal Variability of Carbonate Chemistry in a River Influenced Eutrophic Estuary, Sean P. Gordon

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AGE AND GROWTH OF BLACKFIN TUNA (THUNNUS ATLANTICUS) IN THE GULF OF MEXICO, Elsa M. Gutierrez

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Phragmites australis Haplotypic Variation and Response to Abiotic Stressors, Michael D. Jacobs

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LIGHT DEPENDENT FEEDING AND PHOTOGRAMMETRIC DETERMINATION OF MOVEMENT SPEED OF PTEROIS VOLITANS AND PTEROIS MILES IN THE FLORIDA KEYS, Neal Kolonay

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EFFECTS OF METEOROLOGIC EVENTS ON WAVE CLIMATE AND CURRENT REGIME IN A SHALLOW, MICROTIDAL BAY, Jay S. Merrill

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Estimation of Economic Risk from Coastal Natural Hazards in Louisiana, Rubayet Bin Mostafiz

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Changes in Heat Metrics Following a Major Hurricane and Implications on Heat Stress, Cade Reesman

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A Numerical Investigation of Flood and Sediment Dynamics over the Coastal Watersheds During Hurricane Events, Dongxiao Yin

Dissertations from 2021

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Evaluating Biological Carbon Pump Across Continental Margins Undergoing Accelerated Climatic Changes, Wokil Bam

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Characterizing the Northern Hemisphere Circumpolar Vortex Through Space and Time, Nazla Bushra

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222-RADON AS A TRACER FOR AIR-SEA CO2 EXCHANGE ACROSS THE LOUISIANA SHELF, Jocelyn A. Forsman

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Fisheries Food Webs: Quantifying Habitat-use, Trophic Structure, and Energetic Pathways in Coastal Tanzania, Mario Fernando Hernandez

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Penguins past and present: Trace elements, stable isotopes, and population dynamics in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic penguins and seals, Allyson K. Kristan

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Penguin Proxies: Disentangling Historical and Millennial-Scale Ecosystem Shifts in the Antarctic Food Web, Chantel Irene Michelson

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Hydro-Morphodynamics of Sandy Coastal Embayments, Shamim Murshid

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Hydrometeorological Responses to Abrupt Land Surface Change Following Hurricane Michael, Shannon Alexis Nelson

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Numerical and Field Study of Tidal and Subtidal Dynamics in a Bar-Built Estuary: Barataria Bay, Gulf of Mexico, Ali Reza Payandeh

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Soil Organic Matter Accretion, Complexity, and Degradation In Eroding Coastal Wetlands, Yadav Sapkota

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Ontogeny and Resource Use of Invasive Lionfish, Pterois volitans, in Shallow Water Habitats Surrounding Summerland Key, Emily Shallow

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Blue Carbon in South Florida's Mangroves: The Role of Large Roots and Necromass, Zoë I. Shribman

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EFFECTS OF FRESHWATER INPUT ON NUTRIENT LOADING, TOXIC CYANOBACTERIA BLOOM DEVELOPMENT AND CYANOTOXIN PRODUCTION IN LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN ESTUARY, LOUISIANA, Callie L. Snow

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Assessing Mangrove Wetland Structure and Function Regulated by Environmental Gradients under Climate Change and Increasing Human Impacts: A Modeling Approach, Xiaochen Zhao

Theses from 2020

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SEASONAL TRANSPORT OF DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON AND TOTAL ALKALINITY ACROSS THE LOUISIANA SHELF, Michelle M. Anderson

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HYDRODYNAMICS, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, AND WATER QUALITY OF TWO CONTRASTING DREDGE PITS ON THE LOUISIANA SHELF, Robert Bales

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Physical and Biological Factors Controlling the Fate of Nitrate in a Louisiana Coastal Deltaic Floodplain, Alexandra Christensen

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Ecogeomorphic Evolution of Muddy Coastlines: How Biota on a Range of Scales, from Microscopic Biofilms to Landscape-scale Vegetation Zonation Patterns, Interact with Physical Processes, Kendall Cole

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Feeding Ecology of Red Snapper (Lutjanus Campechanus) and Vermilion Snapper (Rhomboplites Aurorubens) Coexisting at the Louisiana Shelf-edge Banks, Katherine M. Ellis

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The Life History and Population Dynamics of Southern Flounder, Kenneth A. Erickson

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Plant And Soil Responses To Sediment Deposition And Nutrient Enrichment In Healthy, Deteriorating, And Newly Created Coastal Marshes In Barataria Basin, Louisiana: Implications For Mississippi River Sediment Diversions, Gina N. Groseclose

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Benthic Nitrogen Dynamics in Response to Deltaic Succession, Anthropogenic Fertilization and Hurricane Events in an Emerging Coastal Deltaic Floodplain within the Mississippi River Delta Plain, Song Li

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Phytoplankton and Carbon Dynamics in the Estuarine-Coastal Waters of the Northern Gulf of Mexico from Field Data and Ocean Color Remote Sensing, Bingqing Liu

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Phosphorus Variability in the Area Of Influence of the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, Peter Mates

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Simulating Wave Dynamics in the Northern Gulf of Mexico and Barataria Pass, Azadeh Razavi Arab

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Late Holocene Environmental Changes and Ecosystem Dynamics in Louisiana's Coastal Wetlands: A Multi-Site, Multi-Proxy Investigation, Junghyung Ryu

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Louisiana Southern Flounder: Commercial and Recreational Trends, David Russell Smith

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Temporal and Spatial Trends of Dead Copepods in the Northern Gulf of Mexico in Relation to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Jessica L. Tolan

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Identification and Quantification of Microplastic Pollution in Water Samples and Four Species of Fish from the Mississippi River, Kerrin E. Toner

Dissertations from 2019

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Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Ecological Succession and Land Development Along a Coastal Deltaic Floodplain Chronosequence, Anika Abena Campbell Aarons

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Surface Gravity Waves in the Gulf of Mexico and Their Role in Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling, Ehsan Abolfazli

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Population Dynamics and Demographics of Spotted Seatrout, Cynoscion nebulosus, Through Spatial Analysis: Towards an Integrative Management Approach, Ashley Melancon Baer

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Spatiotemporal Variation of Benthic Silica Fluxes in the NGOM Shelf, Byron Ebner

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Iron Mediated Organic Preservation in a River Influenced Continental Margin, NEHA AJIT GHAISAS

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Habitat Associations and Reproduction of Fishes on the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Shelf Edge, Elizabeth Marie Keller

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Numerical Study of Oceanic Boundary Layer Turbulence and Its Effect on Particles, Jinliang Liu

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Habitat Usage Patterns of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Terrebonne and Timbalier bays, Louisiana, Mary Allison Manning

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Numerical Modeling of Wave Dynamics and Sediment Transport near the Mississippi Birdfoot Delta and Barataria Estuary, Soroush Sorourian

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Evaluating Seasonal Nutrient Fluxes in Emerging and Eroding Wetlands of the Louisiana Delta Plain, Kiran Upreti

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Impacts of Anthropogenic Activities on Coastal Wetland Microbes and Microbially-Mediated Processes in Coastal Louisiana, Jessica Vaccare

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A Numerical Investigation of Sediment Dynamics in the Northern Gulf of Mexico in Connection with Hurricanes, Fluid Mud, Climate Change, and Biogeochemical Cycling, Zhengchen Zang

Theses from 2018

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From the River to the Gulf: An Investigation of Biogeochemical Cycling in Wetland Soils and Coastal Shelf Sediments, Katie Bowes

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Tidal-, Wind-, and Buoyancy-Driven Dynamics in the Barataria Estuary and Its Impact on Estuarine-Shelf Exchange Processes, Linlin Cui

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An Evaluation of Sciaenid Growth in the Gulf of Mexico, Shane Flinn

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The Tensile Root Strength of Emergent Coastal Macrophytes, Lauris Olivia Hollis

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Carbon Dioxide Fluxes and Plants Interactions across the Succession of a Created Brackish Marsh in Southwestern Louisiana, Andy T. Muench

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Influence of Black Mangrove Expansion on Salt Marsh Faunal Communities of Eastern Coastal Louisiana, Christina Powell

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The Influence of River Discharge on Fishes and Invertebrates Associated with Small Oil and Gas Platforms in Nearshore Louisiana, David Bradley Reeves

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Using Local Fishery Monitoring to Understand Small-Scale Coastal Fisheries in Tanzania, Matthew Robertson

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Effects of Oil on Mollusk and Crustacean Populations, Behavior, and Predator-Prey Interactions, Elizabeth Marie Robinson

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Effects of Natural and Anthropogenic Forcing on Marsh Channel Evolution, Jeremiah Robinson

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Sediment and Plant Dynamics in a Degrading Coastal Louisiana Landscape, Glenn Michael. Suir

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Natural and Anthropogenic Impacts on Sediment Dynamics and Preservation in Contrasting Mississippi Deltaic Coastal Environments, Jiaze Wang

Theses from 2017

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Blue Carbon Accumulation and Microbial Community Composition in a Chronosequence of Created Coastal Marshes in the Chenier Plain, Louisiana, Katherine Mary Abbott

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Ecotoxicological Assessment of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the Mississippi River Coastal Watershed and Offshore Shoaling Regions of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Laura Marie Basirico

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Differential Responses of Soil Greenhouse Gas Production and Denitrification to Salinity Alterations Along a Wetland Salinity Gradient, Natalie Ceresnak

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Development and Application of a MODIS Inorganic Sediment Model during the 2016 Mississippi River Diversion in Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, Robert Lee Iles IV

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Characterization of Carbon Flow in a Barataria Bay, Louisiana, Salt Marsh Using Trophic Biomarkers, Jessica J. Johnson

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Estuarine Water Quality and Dynamics in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Using Field and Satellite Observations, Ishan Joshi

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Sediment Transport and Slope Stability in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Jeffrey Blake Obelcz

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How Dredge Pits Evolve Over Time: A Look At Their Geomorphologic Evolution and Infilling Processes, Patrick Robichaux

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Examining the benefits of a large, intermittent river diversion into the Maurepas Swamp, Jeffrey Scott Rutherford

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Modeling the Influence of Energy and Climate Megatrends on Future Costs and Benefits of Marsh Creation in the Mississippi Delta, Adrian R. H. Wiegman

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Biogeochemical Processes Linked to Important Ecosystem Services in Restored and Natural Louisiana Wetlands, Sarah Elizabeth Wood

Theses from 2016

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The Effect of Artificial Light on the Community Structure and Distribution of Reef-Associated Fishes at Oil and Gas Platforms in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Victoria Anne Barker

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Dynamics of Land Building and Ecological Succession in a Prograding Deltaic Floodplain, Wax Lake Delta, LA, USA, Azure Elizabeth Bevington

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Everglades Mangrove Forest Response to Large-Scale Disturbance: Long-Term Assessment of Structural and Functional Properties, Tess Marie Danielson

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Interactions among Hydrology, Sediment and Vegetation in Accreting Wax Lake Delta: Physical and Biogeochemical Implications for Coastal Louisiana Restoration, Courtney Erin Elliton

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The Role of Upper Ocean Heat Content and Sea Surface Temperature on Northeast Pacific Hurricane Evolution during Average and Active Years, Victoria Lauren Ford

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Feeding Ecology of Red Snapper and Greater Amberjack at Standing Platforms in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Disentangling the Effects of Artificial Light, Kristin Leanne Foss

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Investigating Species and Population Level Foraging Variation and Individual Specialization in Pygoscelis Penguins Using Stable Isotope Analysis, Rachael W. Herman

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A Contemporary Approach to a Classic Model: Exploring the Influence of Local Interactions and Disturbance on Mangrove Forest Dynamics with a Spatially-Explicit Version of FORMAN, Kieley Shannon Hurff

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The Effect of Restoration on Nitrate Reduction and Biogeochemical Functioning in Louisiana Wetlands: Bottomland Hardwood Forests and Deltaic Sediments, Nia R. Hurst