Founded: 1991
Full Time: 225
Part Time: 0
Budget: 5,301,846.00
Director: Dr. Russell L. Chapman
E302 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4110
Telephone: 225-578-3457 FAX: 225/388-5328 E-Mail:chapman@lsu.edu
URL:http://cceer.lsu.edu
Research Areas:
The mission of CCEER is to provide knowledge, technology, and human resources for successful management of natural resources and resolution of environmental issues important to Louisiana, the Gulf of Mexico region, and comparable areas throughout the nation and the world.
The economy, culture, and life-style of Louisiana and much of the Gulf of Mexico region are strongly affected by 1) productive coastal ecosystems, 20 development of energy resources and the environmental impacts of utilizing them, and 3) industrialization that ahs occured since World War II. In many settings, the three are interactive with energy development and industrialization taking place in productive wetland and estuarine areas. Several research units have been active over the past three decades in dealing with various elements of coastal, energy, and environmental systems and have established a strong record of basic understandings of many systems and processes.
The issues and decisions to be made in the future regarding the development, preservation, restoration, and management of these resources and systems will require the results of intergrated, multidisciplinary research programs that can cross traditional disciplinary boundaries as we move toward systems-based approaches. Traditional university academic and research units are not organized or staffed to conduct research in this mode. CCEER was created to provide the organizational, management, and support structure that could facilitate the types of research programs necessary to meet the needs of the 1990's and beyond. CCEER brought together existing research units and related academic programs into a college-like structure to enhance capabiltiy to conduct cooperative, multidisciplinary research to lead to a better understanding of the resources and environmental issues important to Louisisana, the Gulf of Mexico region, and comparable areas throughout the world.
Each CCEER unit conducts product-oriented research in its area of expertise, and CCEER provides the organizational framework for drawing from these units in developing multidisciplinary research programs operated through the Special Programs component of the center. The research units and their respective areas of research are:
Coastal Studies Institute
investigates actively El Nino-- driven circulation/temperture
signatures --western Pacific; tidal flat dynamics -- western
Korea; sedimentary architecture and responce to Pleistocene sea
level change East Kalimantan Mahakam delta; carbonate margin and
platform development under monsoon coditions --Java Sea shelf
margin; Pacific through-flow to the Indian Ocean --Lombok Strait
and Vitiaz Strait; Red Sea -- Indian Ocean exchange processes --
Bab El Mandab; snail-borne diseases Nile Delta; environmental
studies of parasites -- Brazil Coastal plain; parasitology
(public health) Venezuela.
Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
is conducting research on reed dieback -- Denmark; riverine
influence on continental shelf -- Bohai, China; eutrophication --
Baltic Sea and Adriatic Sea; coastal zone management --
Indonesia; bactenal production on the western Mediterranean Sea
-- Europe. The Netherlands also have been a research concern.
Institute for Environmental Studieshas ongoing projects concerning the treatment of oil-contaminated soil-- Tampico, Mexico; USDA/EPA initiative on agricultural clean-up --Postman, Poland; treatment of API sludge -- Rotterdam, Netherlands; recycling of used railroad ties -- The Hague, Netherlands; refinery process testing (Exxon) Oslo, Norway.
Nuclear Science Center
conducts research on the biochemistry of irradiated tse tse flies
for the International Atomic Energy Agency -- Vienna, Austria.
Special Programshas research interests that comprise management plans for estuanes/coastal wetlands, estuarine/coastal dune research, and management plan development -- South Africa; natural sedimentary processes Orage River delta; marine diamonds -- Namaqualland continental shelf and namibia; management plan for mangroves for national parks of Brazil -- Fernando de Noronho Islands; orgin of coral reefs -- St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands; eco-tourism development plan for ship terminal -- Port Laldera, Costa Rica.
Wetland Biochemistry Instituteis involved in research on river flood-plain biogeochemistry -- Venezuela; plant physiology -- Denmark; coastal accretion -- England and Europe; nitrogen dynamics -- England and India; U.S. aid -- Thailand and Indonesia; methane dynamics -- philippines; constraints on the distribution and growth of mangroves in the Belizean coastal zone -- barrier reef system and lagoon, Belize, Central America.
Coastal Ecology Institutehas been awarded contracts to study major delta ecological comparisons as part of global change research --Rhone River delta, Europe and Indus River delta, Bangladesh; long-term ecological change in coastal -- Agean Sea and Adriatic Sea; comparative marsh communtiy structure --Holland; comparative estuarine ecology -- State of Campeche, mexico; Bahia los Minos oil spill -- Panama; marine policy -- Bermuda. Extensive ecological and oceanographic work in China and indonesia have produced long-term ties with scientists in those countries, and future collaboration is expected.
Coastal Fisheries Institute participates in research on the impacts of the shrimp farms of Mangrove ecosystems and juvenile jewfish, age and growth -- Laguna de terminos, Gulf of Mexico; importance of sea grasses to fish and macroinvertebrate biochemistry-- Atlantic Coast of Guatemala; spawning requirements of Corvina -- Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica; growth dynamics and condition indices(measures of health) in Catfish larvae (plaice, flounder, and sole), National Science Foundation-supported research Netherlands.
Areas of Expertise:
The expertise honed in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast area has been applied throughout the world by individuals and teams from CCEER research organizations. this international experience adds to the credentials CCEER can offer for structured multidisciplinary approaches to environmental and resource issues beyond the United States. Development of research projects and programs that apply research results to solving resources and environmental problems in countries and oceans where our experience would be a unique asset is an important goal of CCEER.
Special Capabilities and Facilities:
Research Equipment:
Keywords:
1007000 Environemntal Studies
1008000 Marine and Ocean Sciences
1012000 Nuclear Sciences
1230000 Energy Environmental Sciences
0201030 Fish and Fisheries
0201051 Seed Production
0201066 Aquaculture/Hydroponics
0120004 International/Global Development
1007026 Wetlands
1008235 Ocean Modeling
1012005 Nuclear Fission
1230045 Energy/Environmental Studies -- Developing Countries
0201054 Soil Sciences, Erosion