NEWS AND EVENTS
New funds available to faculty and staff in support of Open Access publishing
Money should never be a barrier to accessing science. We are proud to announce that we will provide our faculty with funds to offset costs required to publish an article as open access.
Adapting to flooding at the DeFelice Marine Center
A statement from our Executive Director on our plans to sustain LUMCON's DeFelice Marine Center in the face of an increased number of nuisance flooding events.
Diverse animal communities contain similar animals
New deep-sea wood fall research from Dr. Craig McClain, Dr. Clifton Nunnally, and their colleagues helps explains how animals can live side by side even when they’re competing with each other for an essential resource: food.
Summer 2018 ‘dead zone’ in the Gulf of Mexico is smaller than average
A team of scientists led by Dr. Nancy Rabalais and Dr. Eugene Turner recently returned from measuring the recurring area of low-oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico. The hypoxic zone is smaller than average this year, but Rabalais cautions that the problems that cause low oxygen are not solved.
LUMCON’s Environmental Monitoring Program Featured in houmatoday.com Article
A local research center has added a new environmental monitoring station at Port Fourchon. This station joins two others in a network that’s collecting data along the central Louisiana coast.
LUMCON’s DeFelice Marine Center Featured in NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune Article
On a thin strip of land in Terrebonne Parish, researchers with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium study the problems facing coastal Louisiana, the Gulf of Mexico and ocean ecosystems. But with its location outside the levee system, the marine lab has become ground zero for the very issues it is tasked with studying.
Land-building in a river delta can help reduce carbon dioxide emissions
LUMCON's Alex Kolker is on a team that recently used new techniques to measure carbon buried by land-forming in a river delta. Their calculations put carbon storage at 150% to 1000% higher than traditional estimates.
LUMCON researchers receive $4.8M grant
The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative recently awarded $4.8 million in funding to sustain the Coastal Waters Consortium, led by Dr. Nancy Rabalais and including Dr. Brian Roberts, for two years.
LUMCON researchers receive $2.1M grant
Dr. Brian Roberts and Dr. Nancy Rabalais are Co-Principal Investigators on a team recently awarded $2,057,684 to study marsh restoration in Louisiana. This project will provide new information describing how restored marshes function.