Founded: 1868
Full Time: 8
Part Time: 1
Budget: 1,680,000
Director: Dr. Edward B. Overton
Institute for Environmental Studies
Rm 42 Atkinson Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Telephone: 504/388-8521 FAX: 504/388-4286 E-Mail: evstev@lsu.edu
Research Areas:
The mission of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IES) is to provide academic talents and knowledge to solve environmental problems through focused research, education, and public service activities. The faculty's areas of expertise include: bioremediation, analytical chemistry, air pollution, environmental toxicology, human health toxicology, assassment of mutagenic and toxic compounds, risk assessment of air and waste pollutants, chemical hazard assessment of spills, instrument development for on-sight montoring, managing and protection of resources and policy development. The faculty's areas of expertise span the spectrum from Chemistry, Microbiology and Toxicology, to Political Science and Environmental Geology. We are in the process of adding research faculty in the coastal and wetlands management area. IES Faculty and staff serve on numerous international, national, state and local panels and committees in both the private and public sectors. Further, they are actively involved in solving real-world environmental problems ranging from, for example, oil spills and hazardous/ solid waste clean-ups to environmnetal assessments in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Eastern Europe. Members of IES faculty and staff have / or have ahd funding from the following Federal and State agencies: National Mineral Management Service (MMS), US Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic Atomospheric Administracton (NOAA), US Sea Grant, LEQSF, LA DEQ, and several industrial sponsors.
Areas of Expertise:
Special Capabilities and Facilities:
The Institute of Environmental Studies occupies appoximately 18,000 square feet of Atkinson Hall, the Agicultural Administration Building and Plant Stores Building on LSU's main campus in Baton Rouge. The laboritories are equipped with state-of-the-art analytical equipment as well as numerous instruments for specialized environmental research. In addition, IES has laboratories specifically designed and equipped to perform genotoxicity and biochemical toxicology studies. All support equipment is available to perform trace analyses on various types of environmental samples. The Institute has an Extrell Quadrapole MS-GC. Dr. Ralph Portier has been awarded six patents and four license agreements and Dr. Edward B. Overton was awarded LSU's first international license agreement.
Research Equipment:
Extrell GC-MS, Mass Spectrometer Triple Quadrople System
Portable Photovac
Portable Micromonitor
Keywords:
1007000 Environmental Studies
1007001 Environmental Biology
1007002 Environmental Chemistry
1007003 Environmental Effects
1007005 Air Pollution
1007006 Land Pollution
1007008 Water Pollution
1007009 Toxicology
1007010 Water Resources, Environmetal Impacts
1007012 Wastes, Hazardous
1007015 Environmental Conservation
1007021 Industrial Waste
1007023 Natural Resources Management
1007024 Toxic Substances - Environmental
1007025 Waste Management