Dr.William Bush Research

Dr.Bushs Research focuses on sediment petrophysics and paleoceanography. Research projects have included studies of the lithologic control of geophysical properties, physical aspects of burial diagenesis, and integration of core and borehole logging petrophysical data. Recent studies involve the seismic modeling of Paleogene to Miocene sediments of the Ocean Drilling Program Pacific equatorial transect in order to determine the paleoceanographic significance of seismic reflectors.

Dr.Kraig Destler Research

Dr. Derstler is a paleontoloigist, focussing primarily upon field and laboratory studies of Cretaceous dinosaurs. The last several years he has spent his summers excavating skeletons and studying the taphonomy of the Lance, Hell Creek, and Judith River Formations in Montana,South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wyoming. Recent publications deal with tyrannosaurid taphonomy and anatomy, dromaeosaurid taxonomy, bird origins, UV imaging, and ceratopsian and sauropod torso anatomy. Dr. Derstler also publishes on modern cycad horticulture and conservation. Recent graduate students have studied the biomechanics of sauropod torsos, ceratopsian nasal sinuses, X-ray dissection technology, the tyrannosaurid brachial nerve plexus, hadrosaur nuchal ligaments and associated cranial anatomy, but Dr. Derstler is open to virtually any well-defined project that is interesting, do-able, and proposed by a highly-capable student.

Dr.Ioannis Georgiou

Dr. Georgiou's research involves the study of hydrodynamics, transport and circulation in estuaries, lakes, rivers, tidal inlets, and the coastal ocean. In particular, the research is directed to answer questions related to environmental hydraulics, such as fate and transport of contaminants in the environment, salinity and sediment transport in coastal, estuarine and riverine systems, transport in lakes and estuaries, wave climate studies, beach erosion studies and barrier island response/recovery from storms. Dr. Georgiou uses computational fluid dynamic programs to simulate water motion and transport in these systems, and uses the information to observe potential implications resulting from coastal management; this includes freshwater diversions, changes in riverine flow, watershed runoff, climatic changes, placement of coastal structures etc. While the focus of most of his research efforts is in south Louisiana, he also works with environmental hydraulic problems throughout the nation and the world.

Dr.Mark A Kulp Research

Dr. Kulp's research focuses on the sedimentary framework and evolution of the Mississippi River delta system and Louisiana coastal plain in response to changes in sediment supply, sea-level rise, and subsidence. Some of his current interests include the evolution of Louisiana barrier islands and inlets in response to coastal erosion and interior wetland loss, latest Quaternary north-central Gulf Coast stratigraphy, and patterns and processes of late Quaternary subsidence.

Dr. Deepak Mishra Research

Dr. Mishra's research interests involve Remote Sensing of Wetlands, Estuaries, Coastal and Open Ocean Waters; Geospatial Analysis/Satellite Image Analysis; Environmental Remote Sensing ; Ocean Optics and Satellite Oceanography.

Dr.Martin T O'Connell Research

Dr. O'Connells research interests involve studying, managing, and conserving aquatic animals in freshwater, estuarine, and marine habitats. In particular the researchers and graduate students in his lab examine long-term changes in fish assemblages, responses of aquatic communities to natural and anthropogenic disturbances, and ecological needs of organisms threatened by changing global conditions. While the focus of most of his research efforts is southeastern Louisiana, he also works with ecological data and organisms from throughout the nation and the world.

Dr. Shea Penland Research

Dr. Shea Penland is a coastal geomorphologist whose research addresses the Late Quaternary evolution of the Gulf of Mexico coastal zones.  His research focuses specifically on how the coastal zone responds to transgressive processes, storms, and anthropogenic alterations. He has additionally conducted coastal zone research across Europe, South America and Asia.  Dr. Penland believes that developing new opportunities for basic and applied coastal research is critically important to the students of University of New Orleans.

Dr.Denise J Reed Research

Dr.Denise J Reed research focuses on various aspects of sediment dynamics in coastal wetlands, with emphasis on sediment mobilization and marsh hydrology, both natural and altered, as factors controlling sediment deposition. I have participated in numerous research projects concerning marsh and estuarine sediment dynamics on the Gulf and Pacific coasts of the US as well as in Europe and South America. I've also worked closely with the development of restoration plans in for coastal Louisiana for the last 5 years. I moved to the Department of Geology at the University of New Orleans in 1998 and current research includes sediment dynamics and restoration in Louisiana, the Columbia River estuary and the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta.

Dr. Mustofa Sarwar A K Research

Dr.Sarwar's research experience involves the general areas of exploration seismology (software, processing, and interpretation) and physical acoustics including inverse theory, tomography, migration, modeling, deconvolution, complex trace analysis, slant stack, three dimensional interpretations, multiple suppression, and genetic algorithm. Sarwar's research contributions involve seismic inversion, a method of deconvolution named Wave Scattering Deconvolution (WSD), and a noise removal technique named Cross Entropy Slant Stack. His six recent publications are on seismic wave scattering and interpretation.

Dr.Ronald K Stoessell Research

Dr. Willam "Skip" Simmons Research