CEAC-2021-07-July

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LSU Faculty Receive $9.3M Grant to
Investigate Collaborative Ecosystem
Design Approaches
BATON ROUGE, La. (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sometimes years’
worth of studies and research can turn into a collaboration
that will not only help the nation’s military but also coastal
land-margin regions around the globe. Such is the case with
LSU Civil and Environmental Engineering Professors Scott
Hagen and Clint Willson and LSU College of the Coast &
Environment Professor Robert Twilley, who recently received
a $9.3 million grant from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
to work alongside the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development
Center’s Environmental Laboratory (ERDC-EL) and
the University of Delaware to explore how sea-level rise and
other impacts of climate change will affect coastal military
bases and ecosystems.
This is the largest grant ever awarded to a single coastal
engineering and science team at LSU.
Hagen, who holds the LSU Louisiana Sea Grant Laborde Chair
and is the director of the LSU Center for Coastal Resiliency,
has spent the last decade developing a research program
around the coastal dynamics of sea-level rise and has secured
millions of dollars in grant money for his transdisciplinary
efforts over the years — more than $4 million from the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
as well as millions from other federal agencies. These efforts
focus on the impact that sea-level rise has over the entire
coastal land-margin and — through field data collection,
laboratory analysis and the development and application
of high-performance computational models — can simulate
and help to diagnose past, present and future conditions for
far-ranging scenarios.
Willson, who holds the Mike N. Dooley Professorship at LSU,
has worked on overland models over the years and currently
runs the LSU Center for River Studies, which conducts
research on the world’s major rivers (with a specific focus on
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