Faculty

FACULTY & RESEARCH STAFF

FACULTY & RESEARCH STAFF

A large number of faculty and research staff from many departments, colleges, and centers collaborate with the LSU Hurricane Center on a range of research, education, and service projects as indicated below.

	S. Ahmet Binselam Research Associate M.S., Mapping Science; M.S., Computer Science Louisiana State University
	Office 225/578 - 9388 binselam@hurricane.lsu.edu
	Dane Dartez Research Associate IV M.S., Natural Sciences Louisiana State University B.S., Environmental Sciences Louisiana State University
	Office 3214 CEBA / 225-578-9391 ddarte2@lsu.edu
	Elizabeth English Associate Professor - Research LSU Hurricane Center Ph.D., Architecture University of Pennsylvania M.S., Structural Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Wind effects on buildings, Wind-borne debris, Extreme winds on tall buildings, Post-hurricane damage assessment, Hurricane sheltering, Interference effects
	Office 3214E CEBA / 225/578 - 6019 english@hurricane.lsu.edu
	John D. Holmes John P. Laborde Visiting Professor Ph.D., Engineering Monash University, Australia	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Wind loads on structures, full-scale and wind-tunnel measurements, codification of wind effects, risk analysis for windstorms
	Office 3222A CEBA / 225/578 - 7283 jholmes@lsu.edu
	Marc Lloyd Levitan Director, LSU Hurricane Center Charles P. Seiss, Jr. Professor Associate Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Civil Environmental Engineering Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Texas Tech University	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Wind effects on buildings, wind loads on industrial/petrochemical structures, assessment and design of hurricane shelters, wind and flood protective design, hurricane evacuations
	Office 3214A CEBA / 225/578 - 4445 levitan@hurricane.lsu.edu
	Hassan S. Mashriqui Assistant Professor - Research LSU Hurricane Center Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Louisiana State University	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS ADCIRC Modeling for Coastal and Inland Flooding, Parallelized Hydrodynamic, Water Quality and Habitat Modeling Using Beowulf Type Clusters, Water Quality Modeling, Wetland Restoration.
	Office: 2232 School of the Coast & Env. Bdg. 225/578 - 9386 cemash@lsu.edu
	Byung Cheol Oh Post-Doctoral Researcher LSU Hurricane Center Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Storm Surge Modeling and Mapping
	Office: 257 Military Science 225/578 - 9388
	Kate Streva Research Associate/Environmental Biologist B.S., Environmental Biology Saint Francis University
	Office 3214B CEBA / 225/578 - 0268 streva@hurricane.lsu.edu
	Ivor L. van Heerden Deputy Director, LSU Hurricane Center Associate Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Director, Center for the Study of Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes. Ph.D., Marine Sciences, Louisiana State University	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Coastal zone management to minimize storm impacts, design of coastal restoration projects
	Office 3214H CEBA / 225/578 - 5974 ivor@hurricane.lsu.edu

SCHOOL OF THE COAST AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Paul Kemp
Associate Professor
School of the Coast and the Environment

HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS

Coastal Modeling

Office 136 Wetland Resources / 225/578 - 2734
gpkemp@lsu.edu

Martin Hugh-Jones
Professor
Environmental Studies
Ph.D.,
Christ's College, Cambridge

HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS

Epidemiology of floods

Office 2279 Energy, Coast, and Env Bldg / 225/578-5599
mehj@vetmed.lsu.edu

CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

	Steve Cai Assistant Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D., Structural Engineering University of Maryland at College Park	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Analysis and control of long-span bridge vibration due to strong winds.
	Office 225/578 - 8898 cscai@lsu.edu
	Jannette Frandsen Assistant Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D., Structural Engineering Cambridge University	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Experimental and computational modeling of fluid-structure interaction mechanisms with a focus on wave mechanics and aerodynamics
	Office 3502 CEBA / 225/578 - 0277 frandsen@lsu.edu
	Sherif Ishak Assistant Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D., Civil Engineering-Geotechnical Engineering *University of Central Florida*	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Intelligent Transportation Systems (ATIS & ATMS). Traffic operations and safety
	Office 3513A CEBA / 225/578 - 4846 sishak@lsu.edu
	William M. Moe Assistant Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D., Civil Engineering Univerity of Notre Dame	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Biological waste treatment, environmental response/recovery
	Office 3418G CEBA / 225/578 - 9174 moemwil@lsu.edu
	John H. Pardue Elizabeth Howell Stewart Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering Director, Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Louisiana State University	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Environmental impacts, detection of flaws in levees
	Office 3215A CEBA / 225/578 - 8661 jpardue@lsu.edu
	Vijay P. Singh Arthur K. Barton Endowed Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D., Colorado State University D.Sc., University of Witwatersrand	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Hydrology of floods
	Office 3414 CEBA / 225/578 - 6697 cesing@lsu.edu
	Chester G. Wilmot Associate Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D., Transportation Planning, Northwestern University	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Hurricane evacuation planning
	Office 3513C CEBA / 225/578 - 4697 cewilm@eng.lsu.edu
	Brian Wolshon Associate Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Transportation Research Lab Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Michigan State University	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Transportation engineering for hurricane evacuations
	Office 3513D CEBA / 225/578 - 5247 brian@rsip.lsu.edu

COASTAL STUDIES INSTITUTE

	Sam Bentley Assistant Professor Coastal Studies Institute Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, Marine Sciences Research Center	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Paleotempestology
	Office 302 Howe-Russell / 225/578 - 2954 sjb@lsu.edu
	S. A. Hsu Professor Coastal Studies Institute Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, University of Texas, Austin	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Coastal meteorolgy
	Office 308 Howe-Russell / 225/578 - 2962 sahsu@antares.es1.lsu.edu
	Greg Stone Associate Professor Coastal Studies Institute Director, Coastal Morphodynamics Lab Ph.D., University of Maryland	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Real-time measurement techniques for offshore wave, surge, and current, storm effects on coastal environment, sediment transport
	Office 316 Howe-Russell / 225/578 - 6188 gagreg@lsu.edu
	Nan D. Walker Assistant Professor Research Coastal Studies/Oceanography Associate Director, Earth Scan Laboratory Ph.D., Physical Oceanography, University of Cape Town, South Africa	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Remote sensing of hurricanes and environmental impacts
	Office 308A Howe-Russell / 225/578 - 5331 nwalker@antares.esl.lsu.edu

GEOGRAPHY AND ANTHROPOLOGY

	Jay Grymes Professional in Residency Geography and Anthropology MS, University of Delaware	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Climatology of severe weather
	Office E328 Howe-Russell / 225/578 - 6870 jgrymes@maestro.srcc.lsu.edu
	Barry Keim State Climatologist Geography and Anthropology	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS
	Office E327 Howe-Russell / 225/578 - 6870 keim@lsu.edu
	Kam-biu Liu James J. Parsons Distinguished Professor Geography and Anthropology Ph.D., Geography, University of Toronto	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Paleotempestology (use of proxy records to study hurricane activity on a millennial scale)
	Office E104 Howe-Russell / 225/578 - 6136 kliu1@lsu.edu
	Robert Muller Professor Emeritus	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Climatology
	Office 225/578 - 5021 rmuller@mistral.srcc.lsu.edu
	John C. Pine Associate Professor Research, Interim Chair Geography and Anthropology, LSU Ed.D., Higher Education Public Administration, U of Georgia	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Hazard and risk assessment, GIS applications to disasters
	Office Howe-Russell Building / 225/578 - 8521 jpine@lsu.edu
	Kevin Robbins Associate Professor Geography and Anthropology Director, Southern Regional Climate Center Ph.D., Biological and Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Climatology
	Office 262 Howe-Russell / 225/578 - 1063 krobbins@mistral.srcc.lsu.edu

M. E. Betsy Garrison
Associate Professor & Graduate Coordinator
School of Human Ecology

Ph.D., Iowa State University

HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS

Family Stress, Resiliency & Disasters

Office 225/578 - 1724
hcgarr@lsu.edu

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

	Dennis G. Abbey Associate Professor School of Landscape Architecture MLA, Landscape Architecture, Harvard University	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Design of hurricane resistant landscape www.greenlaws.lsu.edu.
	Office 225/578 - 1475 LSUGreenLaws@aol.com
	Bruce Sharky Professor Landscape Architecture MLA, University of California at Berkeley	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS Design of hazard-resistant communities
	Office 302 Design / 225/578 - 1441 lasharky@aol.com

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Dimitris E. Nikitopoulos
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Director, LSU Wind Tunnel Laboratory

Ph.D., Fluid Mechanics,
Brown University

HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS

Fluid-structure interaction, wind tunnel measurement and testing techniques

Office 1419E CEBA / 225/578 - 5903
meniki@me.lsu.edu

NUCLEAR SCIENCE

Erno Sajo
Associate Professor
Nuclear Science and Engineering

Ph.D., University of Lowell, Massachusetts

HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS

Dispersion of hazardous materials during extreme wind events

Office 121 Nuclear Science / 225/578 - 2762
nserno@lsu.edu

REMOTE SENSING AND IMAGE PROCESSING LAB

Chris Schwhem
Associate Director, Engineering Services

MS, Louisiana State University

HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS

IT Applications for Hazards Research

Office 3221 CEBA / 225/578 - 5262
eeschw@lsu.edu

SCHOOL OF
SOCIAL WORK

Julie Shroeder
Associate Professor
School of Social Work

Ph.D., Tulane
MSW, University of Illinois-Champaign

HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS

Population access to disaster services

Office 225/578 - 1196
jschroed@lsu.edu

	John J. Beggs Associate Professor Sociology Ph.D., Sociology, University of Illinois, Chicago	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS How social context affects individuals responses to disasters
	Office 17B Stubbs / 225/578 - 1119 jbeggs@lapop.lsu.edu
	Jeanne S. Hurlbert Associate Professor Sociology Ph.D., Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS How social context affects individuals responses to disasters
	Office 126 Stubbs / 225/578 - 3311 jhurlbert@lapop.lsu.edu

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

Dante Fratta
Collaborator
University of Wisconsin

Ph.D., Civil Engineering-Geotechnical Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SACRAMENTO

Emir J. Macari
Dean of Engineering
University of California - Sacramento

Ph.D., Civil Engineering- Geomechanics
University of Colorado at Boulder

HAZARDS RESEARCH AREAS

Rain-induced slope-stability issues and landslides

916/278-6127
emacari@csus.edu

Retired and Emeritus Faculty