Awards

 

LSU Rainmakers

Dr. James Cowan, Dr. Irving Mendelssohn, Dr. Kenny Rose, and Dr. Eugene Turner have been named a 2009 LSU Rainmaker.  LSU Rainmakers are distinguished faculty members who have been identified as the top 100 research and creative faculty members at LSU. Click here to read more about Rainmakers.

 

Honorary Doctorate from Aarhus University

Irv Mendelssohn, DOCS, received an honorary doctorate from Aarhus University in Denmark on September 11th, 2009, at the University’s 81st Anniversary Celebration.

 

2009 Lifetime Achievement Award

John Day, DOCS (retired), was the recipient of the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana in May, 2009, for outstanding contributions to various restoration projects in southern Louisiana. 

 

New Releases

Ron DeLaune, DOCS, announced the book, Biogeochemistry of Wetlands:  Science and Applications, co-authored with Ramesh Reddy has gone into a second printing.  Due to the demand for the first book, the co-authors began work on a second book titled, Methods in Biogeochemistry of Wetlands.  

 

American Fisheries Society 2008 Publication Award

Kenneth Rose, DOCS, received the American Fisheries Society 2008 Publication Award for the publication titled, “Climate Regime Effects on Pacific Herring Growth Using Coupled Nutrient-Phytoplankton-Zooplankton and Bioenergetics Models.”

 

Christensen Prize for 2007

Ed Laws, ENVS, was presented with the Christensen Prize for 2007 for a paper co-published with Nicolas Cassar in Phycologia titled, “Potential contribution of β-carboxylases to photosynthetic carbon isotope fractionation in a marine diatom”.  Phycologia 46:307-314.

 

(These awards are given during the SC&E Annual Convocation)

Faculty Teaching Award

1996, Margaret Reams, ENVS

1997, Robert Gambrell, DOCS

1998, John W. Day, Jr., DOCS

2000, Irv Mendelssohn, DOCS

2002, Dubravko Justic, DOCS

2004, Michael Wascom, ENVS

2007, John White, DOCS

2008, Chunyan, Li, DOCS

2009, Eugene Turner, DOCS

Faculty Research Award

1996, Shih-Ang Hsu, DOCS

1997, Harry Roberts, DOCS

1999, William J. Wiseman, Jr., DOCS

2001, Charles Wilson, DOCS

2003, Gregory Stone, DOCS

2005, Brian Fry, DOCS

2007, Dubravko Justic, DOCS

2009, Irv Mendelssohn, DOCS

 

Faculty Service Award

1996, Oscar Huh, DOCS

1997, Michael Wascom, ENVS

2008, Masamichi Inoue, DOCS

 

Outstanding Thesis Award

1998, Angela M. Stam, Nuclear Science

2001, Aaron Pierce, DOCS

2002, Kevin Barry, DOCS

2003, Katherine Wheelock, DOCS

2004, Megan Peabody, DOCS, Sidney Marlborough, ENVS

2005, Kristina Rotondo, DOCS, Emily Hyfiled, DOCS, Cheikhna Dedah, ENVS

2008, Lisa Gardner, DOCS, Abbey Tyrna, ENVS

 

Outstanding Dissertation Award

1997, Randolph McBride, DOCS

1998, Thomas D. Leming, DOCS

1999, Janaka A. deSilva, DOCS

2000, Jay Martin, DOCS

2001, David Pepper, DOCS

2004, Allen Reed, DOCS

2006, Cheryl Murphy, DOCS

2007, David Wells, DOCS

2008, Zoraida Quinones-Rivera, DOCS

2009, Whitney Broussard, DOCS

 

Research Staff Award

1998, Eric M. Swenson

2000, David Nieland

2001, Rodney Fredericks

2002, Brian Blanchard

2004, Bjore Wissel

2006, Charlie Milan

2008, Sean Graham

 

Admin. Staff Award

1999, Craig P. Stevens

2001, Carol Fleeger & Patricia Garwood

2003, Robert Allen

2005, Julie Breaux & Debbie Theophilus

2007, Dorothy Walton

2009, Judy Johnson

 

Distinguished Senior Faculty Award

1996, Samuel Meyers, DOCS

1999, Ronald D. DeLaune, DOCS

2000, William Patrick Jr., DOCS