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Funded Projects: 2010

Student	Project Title	Faculty Sponsor
Ben Bernard Carl Brown Ryan Gautreaux Joshua Hess Nicholas Ledet Jeremy Meyers Blaine Fuselier Louisiana State University	Investigation of storm surge and its impact on buildings using a new rapidly deployable sensor	Dr. Marc Levitan Dr. Carol Friedland
Gary Decossas Louisiana State University	Does increased oyster reef complexity affect predation success of juvenile Pogonias cromis and Cynoscion nebulosus on Palaemonetes pugio and Panopeus herbstii?	Dr. Megan La Peyre
Danielle Edwards Louisiana State University	Biomarkers of skin cancer risk in environmental & coastal workers	Dr. Vincent Wilson
Michelle Felterman Nicholls State University	The effect of methyl farnesoate on epidermal ecdysteroid signaling in vivo in the fiddler crab, Uca pugilator	Dr. Enmin Zou
Jessica Harrison Louisiana State University	Evaluating sediment development and sea-level rise in a wetland landscape of the ancient Maya of southern Belize	Dr. Heather McKillop
Olivia LeBlanc Louisiana State University	Comparison of microalgal biomass after extraction with different solvents	Dr. Kelly Rusch
Bryant Meyer University of Louisiana at Lafayette	Pilot studies on the potential for using sugar mill wastewaters to mix culture cyanobacteria and microalgae for biomass and lipid production	Dr. Barbara Benson
Natalie Mills Louisiana State University	Establishment of sperm concentration in aquatic species as a direct method to quantify flow cytometry analysis	Dr. Terrence Tiersch Dr. Jonathan Daly
Austin Nijhuis Tulane University	Quantifying wetland accretion rates in the Mississippi Delta using recent crevasse-splay deposits as natural analogs for river diversions	Dr. Torbjörn Törnqvist
James Peterson University of Louisiana at Lafayette	Salinity exposure duration on coastal wetland plants	Dr. Jenneke Visser