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LaDIA Faculty Fellows Selected

Louisiana Sea Grant has selected 11 tenure-track faculty from five university campuses as 2015 LaDIA Fellows. Louisiana Discovery-Integration-Applications (LaDIA) Fellows will receive training from national experts in science communication and outreach, as well as broaden their knowledge of coastal concerns, during three workshops over the course of the 2015-16 academic year.

The new LaDIA Fellows are:

  • Aly Mousaad Aly, assistant professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University
  • Katie Costigan, assistant professor, School of Geoscience, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • Malay Ghose-Hajra, assistant professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New Orleans
  • Chris Green, associate professor, Aquaculture Research Station, LSU AgCenter
  • Giulio Mariotti, assistant professor, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Science, Louisiana State University
  • Brian Marks, assistant professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University
  • Candace May, assistant professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • Celalettin Emre Ozdemir, assistant professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University
  • Tracy Quirk, assistant professor, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Science, Louisiana State University
  • Illya Tietzel, associate professor, Department of Natural Sciences, Southern University New Orleans
  • Wei Xu, assistant professor, Aquaculture Research Station, LSU AgCenter

In 2014, LaDIA’s pilot year, four fellows received communication training and worked directly with LSG Extension agents who served as outreach mentors. Fellows explored specific outreach objectives in coastal communities and provided their assessments of how to connect researchers with community residents.

For more information about LaDIA, visit  www.laseagrant.org/outreach/ladia/fellowships/.