Environmental Sciences Directory
Department Administration | Faculty | Emeritus Faculty | Adjunct Faculty | Post-docs and Researchers
Department Chair
Kevin L. Armbrust
Professor and Chair, Claiborne Gasoline Company Chair in Air Quality/Environmental
Toxicology
225-578-3030
armbrust@lsu.edu
1279 Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Research Interests:
Pesticides, risk assessment, risk management, vegetative-filters, runoff mitigation,
environmental protection
Lily Pham
Assistant to the Chair
225-578-9421
bpham4@lsu.edu
Heather Weeden
Graduate Coordinator
225-578-2060
envsgrad@lsu.edu
hweeden@lsu.edu
Faculty (A-Z)
Joynal Abedin
Assistant Professor
jabedi1@lsu.edu
Research Interests: GIScience; Spatial Data Science; Geospatial Artificial Intelligence
(GeoAI); Remote Sensing; Natural Hazard and Disaster Risk Assessment
Laura Basirico
Instructor
225-578-7492
lbasir1@lsu.edu
1177 Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Rebeca de Jesús Crespo
Associate Professor
225-578-4293
rdejesuscrespo1@lsu.edu
1263 Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Research Interests:
Landscape Ecology, Socio-ecological Systems, Watershed Management, Mosquito Vector
Ecology
Jon Doering
Assistant Professor
225-578-5553
jdoering@lsu.edu
1267 Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Research Interests:
Aquatic toxicology, ecotoxicology, predictive toxicology, ecological risk assessment
Thomas Douthat
Associate Professor
225-578-4304
tdouthat1@lsu.edu
2111 Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Research Interests:
Flood resilience; ecosystem services and benefit–cost analysis; environmental law,
planning, and policy; science-informed public decision-making; fiscal and economic
aspects of environmental systems
Linda Hooper-Bùi
Professor
225-578-6805
lindabui@lsu.edu
1249 Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Research Interests:
Community structure, niche theory, disturbance/disaster ecology & multi-stressors
in ecosystems, climate change, intricate details of how communities survive stressors,
humans, food webs and nutrient dynamics
Aixin Hou
Professor and Shell Professor in Oceanography/Wetland Studies
225-578-4294
ahou@lsu.edu
1225 Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Research Interests:
Microbial ecology; biogeochemistry; water quality
Crystal N. Johnson
Associate Professor
225-578-9422
cnjohnson@lsu.edu
2283 Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Research Interests:
Microbiology, scientific outreach, pathogens, genetics, microbiology, phylogenetics,
educational outreach
Yong-Ha Kim
Associate Professor
225-578-4295
yonghakim1@lsu.edu
3181 Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Research Interests:
Colloids science, environmental modeling, water and wastewater treatment, indoor air
quality, health physics
Edward Laws
Professor
225-578-8800
edlaws@lsu.edu
3141 Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Research Interests:
phytoplankton ecology, water pollution, climate change
Slawomir Lomnicki
Professor
225-578-8147
slomni1@lsu.edu
1251 Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Research Interests:
Heterogenous reactions on surfaces, air pollution, pollutants fate and transport,
Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals (EPFRs), Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs),
combustion processes
Supratik Mukhopadhyay
Professor
225-578-1496
mmukho1@lsu.edu
2067 Energy, Coast & Environment Building
Research Interests:
Artificial intelligence with applications to the environment and healthcare
Margaret A. Reams
Professor
225-578-4299
mreams@lsu.edu
2115 Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Research Interests:
Environmental and energy policy, environmental planning, community resilience, sustainability
Brian Snyder
Associate Professor and Director, CC&E Undergraduate Programs
225-578-4559
snyderb@lsu.edu
1109 Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Research Interests:
Energy, climate change, sustainability, cultural evolution, synthesis
Bikram Subedi
Assistant Professor
225-578-0448
bsubedi@lsu.edu
1261 Energy, Coast and Enviroment Building
Research Interests:
Fate and transport of chemical residues: PFAS, pesticides, and drug epidemiology
Vincent L. Wilson
Professor
225-578-1753
vwilson@lsu.edu
1253 Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Research Interests:
Molecular Genetics, Toxicology, Physical Chemistry, Microbiology, Pharmacology
Emeritus Faculty
David Dismukes
Emeritus Professor, Executive Director and Professor Center for Energy Studies
225-578-4343
dismukes@lsu.edu
1069 Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Martin Hugh-Jones
Emeritus Professor
225-578-5599
mhughj1@lsu.edu
2279 Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Nina Lam
Emeritus Professor & Abraham Distinguished Professor of Louisiana Environmental Studies
225-578-6197
nlam@lsu.edu
2275 Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Edward Overton
Emeritus Professor
225-578-8634
ebovert@lsu.edu
1265 Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Research Interests:
Analytical-Environmental Chemistry – trace organic analyses using high resolution
separation techniques and high resolution gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; environmental
monitoring; environmental analyses and their associated data interpretation, management
and presentation techniques; application of analytical techniques and chemical principles
to emergency spill responses; chemical hazard evaluations and risk assessments; analytical
instrument development for use with hazardous chemical spill incidents, ambient environmental
monitoring, and monitoring in closed (indoor) environments; and development of methods
to detect, assess and mitigate environmental chemical hazards
Lawrence J. Rouse
Emeritus Professor
225-578-0734
lrouse@lsu.edu
1225 Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Adjunct Faculty
Kristen Antoine-Morse
Adjunct Professor, Deparment of Environmental Sciences
kantoinemorse@lsu.edu
Research Interests:
STEM Teaching; Culturally Relative Pedagogy
Songjie He
Adjunct Professor, Deparment of Environmental Sciences
she5@lsu.edu
Research Interests:
Carbon and nutrient cycling in coastal wetlands, such as marsh lateral carbon fluxes
and air-water greenhouse gas fluxes in marshes
Anurag Mandalika
Adjunct Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences; Assistant Professor of Research,
LSU Center for Energy Studies
225-578-8234
amanda6@lsu.edu
Research Interests: Biomass, biofuels, hydrogen, technoeconomic assessment, life cycle
analysis
Elizabeth Robinson
Adjunct Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Director Louisiana Sea Grant
Oyster Research Lab and Michael C. Voisin Oyster Hatchery
225-578-6510
erobi22@lsu.edu
Research Interests: Oyster Biology, Ecology, and Aquaculture. Multitrophic Aquaculture.
James Nguyen H. Spencer
Adjunct Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Professor, LSU College of
Art & Design
225-578-8962
jhs@lsu.edu
Research Interests:
Urban and Regional Planning
Greg Upton
Adjunct Professor, Deparment of Environmental Sciences, Executive Director & Associate
Research Professor, Center for Energy Studies
225-578-4140
gupton3@lsu.edu
Research Interests:
Intersection of energy and environmental economics
Vanessa van Heerden
Adjunct Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences
225-578-4414
vanheerden1@lsu.edu
Research Interests: nature-society relationships, socio-ecological systems, place
attachment and identity, ecosystem services, environmental communication, and the
role of near-peer mentoring and place-based education in developing environmental
identity and literacy
Research Associates and Post-Doctoral Researchers
Patricia Matute
pmatuterubi@lsu.edu
1257 Energy, Coast & Environment Building
Volodymyr Mihunov
vmihun1@lsu.edu
2131 Energy, Coast & Environment Building
Amit Ranjan
aranjan@lsu.edu
2067 Energy, Coast & Environment Building