LABORDE
ENDOWED CHAIR
The John P. Laborde Endowed Chair for Sea Grant Research and Technology Transfer enables Louisiana Sea Grant to bring highly qualified scientists to LSU to focus on marine and coastal issues critical to the state while providing those researchers with supplemental sabbatical funding. To date, eight internationally recognized researchers have been appointed to the endowed chair.
Photo: Edward Maltby, current Laborde Chair |
The current Laborde Chair is Edward Maltby, emertis professor of wetland science, water and ecosystem management; and former director of the Institute for Sustainable Water, Integrated Management and Ecosystem Research at the University of Liverpool. Maltby has more than 40 years’ experience in scientific research and environmental project management, providing both technical and policy advice for supragovernment, government and non-government bodies.
His research achievements include: empirical evidence for the speed and nature of pedogenic change in wetland soils resulting from human activities, development and application of the cotton strip technique as a novel way of measuring decomposition in wetlands, biogeochemical investigations leading to an evidence-based approach to functional assessment of wetland ecosystems, and research on soil microbial and ecological changes resulting from drainage and land-use alteration in Louisiana’s wetlands.
Curriculum vitae for Edward Maltby (155 KB, PDF)
