DES Professor Supratik Mukhopadhyay and his team are developing new ways to use artificial intelligence to stop wildfires Their AI engine, DeepFire, just advanced to the final round of a major international competition, @XPrize Wildfire ow.ly/oLhS50W13gA #XPRIZEWildfire

Peak #Sahara #dust (~40 ug/m3), roughly ~5x the EPA max allowable yearly average, expected Fri-Sat in #BTR #lawx. Most recent simulations send core of dust further east #mswx #alwx #flwx. Check out dust work by LSU COMET Lab tinyurl.com/39pb4z6j LSU College of the Coast & Environment LSU Research

Welcome Campers! CC&E's first-ever Coast and Environmental Sciences Summer Camp kicked off today with a trip to the LSU Lake for some practice collecting water samples.

Our LSU first generation study abroad students started their monthlong program today at the International Programmes Office, UG and I had very productive meetings with their staff and with faculty and fellows from the Institute for Environment & Sanitation Studies.

🎉 Big shoutout to DOCS grad student Rongqing Nikki Du for snagging FIRST PLACE in the Oral Presentation category at the State of the Coast student competition for her work on the "Hydrodynamic–Sediment Transport Model in Galveston Bay during Hurricane Harvey"!

Time lapse of last month's Mississippi River crest from along the batture at LSU's Skip Bertman Drive. The river crested near 42.5" (major flood stage) on May 1-2, five days after our camera took a dunk! #lawx LSU College of the Coast & Environment

So long summer campers! From kayaking to poster presentations, we had a great week!

How do green buildings perform over the long term? Environmental Sciences PhD candidate Oluwafemi Awolesi has developed Operational Sustainability Index to measure how sustainably designed buildings perform. lsu.edu/cce/mediacente…

Summer is sunscreen season. But even as they protect us from the sun’s harmful rays, some common sunscreen ingredients may be impacting our natural environments. CC&E's Jon Doering is investigating the effects of these chemicals on marine life. lsu.edu/cce/mediacente…

Peak daylight, peak discoveries! 14 hours and 12 minutes of daylight with today's summer solstice. Enjoy ☀️Tigers!

DOCS' CoMET Lab is predicting 5 hurricanes in the Gulf this season. This forecast is based on atmospheric temperatures in the month of May, says DOCS Associate Professor Paul Miller, who runs the lab. Learn more: lsu.edu/cce/mediacente…

Calling all CC&E Alumni - whether you are DOCS, DES or CES, we want to hear from you. Fill out our Alumni Update Form. Let us know where you are and what you've been up to! Get started here: lsu.edu/cce/alumni/upd…

🌊 First-ever 2-way coupled salinity model across the land-estuary-ocean continuum published in JGR- Oceans: tested with Hurricane Florence, the model captures both saltwater intrusion & river plume dynamics agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10… #CoastalResilience #NASA #SaltwaterIntrusion

Don't miss DOCS' Cassie Glaspie talk about hypoxia and the Gulf's Dead Zone tomorrow as part of a live townhall on the Mississippi River 📺Wednesday, July 16th, 6 p.m. 🌊Watch here: pbs.org/newshour/natio…

Congratulations to DOCS Post-doc Hemanth Vundavilli! He received the Pritchard Outstanding Physical Oceanography Paper Award from Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) for “The Influence of River Plume Discharge and Winds on Sediment Transport into a Coastal Mangrove Environment” cerf.memberclicks.net/2025-achieveme…

🚨 Call for Abstracts! #AGU25 Session GC012: Advances in the Integrated Water Continuum Submit by July 30 – New Orleans & online. 🔗 agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/prel… #Hydrology #WaterScience #EarthSystem #Modeling

Congratulations to Environmental Sciences Professor Nina Lam! Her research and contributions to the field of GIS are honored in a new issue of the journal Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. Learn more: lsu.edu/cce/mediacente…

New in npj Natural Hazards! We present Prediction-to-Map (P2M) — a hybrid ML + numerical framework for fast, accurate flood mapping. ✅ 115,200× faster than models ✅ Higher accuracy ✅ Validated in Hurricane Nicholas (2021) 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4430… LSU Research LSU College of the Coast & Environment

August 29th marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. 20 Years of Hurricane Katrina: Louisiana’s Journey to Resilience is a full day of discussions about lessons learned in the wake of the storm, progress made, and the work yet to be done. lsu.edu/laseer/news-ac…

It’s a #WorldMangroveDay match made in Louisiana heaven–or on the Breton Sound! On North Breton Island, pelicans nest in black #mangroves. These plants not only provide nesting grounds–DOCS Professor Tracy Quirk's lab are investigating the role they play in sequestering carbon