Three years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, researchers are beginning to get a better idea of the long-term impacts for coastal ecosystems. A research team from LSU, University of California, Davis and Clemson University, has found that exposure of Gulf killifish embryos to sediments from oiled locations caused cardiovascular defects, delayed hatching and… Read More
Quantifying Vulnerability: LSU Researcher Develops Models to Quantify Vulnerability of Hurricane Evacuation Routes to Subsidence and Climate Change
March 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By Paige Brown It is no secret that Louisiana’s coast if vanishing right before our eyes. Land subsidence and sea-level rise have contributed to a loss of approximately 1.2 million acres of Louisiana coast in the last century. While Louisiana only accounts for 30 percent of our nation’s coast, the state accounts for a whopping… Read More
Mississippi River Talk
March 28, 2013 by 1 Comment
By Paige Brown Once upon a time, the Mississippi River ran wild and uncontrolled from its source in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. The river experienced massive shifts in its course half a dozen times over the last 10,000 years, gradually contributing upstream soil and sediments to what we know today as the Mississippi… Read More
Gods of the Mississippi
March 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
From the colonial period to the present, the Mississippi River has impacted historical, religious, geographical, social and cultural realities in America. From the religious traditions held by African slaves in the Mississippi River valley in the antebellum period, to the Mormon movement along the river in Illinois, to the construction of racial boundaries in the… Read More
LSU Researchers Study the Impact of Oil Spill on Seaside Sparrows
March 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
When the Deepwater Horizon disaster leaked an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, many researchers feared that coastal ecosystems would never be the same. In May 2010, as part of the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, or GoMRI, BP committed $500 million over a 10-year period to create a broad… Read More
LSU Coastal Researchers Investigate Deep Water Coral in Gulf of Mexico
February 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Deep Ocean Discoveries *The first in a series exploring the process of scientific discovery By Paige Brown It is earth’s last frontier: the ocean floor. Researchers currently have more detailed maps of the surface of Mars than they do of our own deep ocean. But thanks to several LSU coastal science researchers, that is beginning… Read More
