SC&E Faculty-John White

Assistant Professor
Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
Wetland Biogeochemistry Institute

3239 Energy, Coast & Environment Building
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA - 70803

Tel: 225-578-8792
Fax: 225-578-6423
E-mail: jrwhite@lsu.edu

Education

Ph. D. University of Florida, Wetland Biogeochemistry, 1999
M. S. Florida Institute of Technology, Coastal Zone Management, 1993.
M.S. Florida Institute of Technology, Geological Oceanography, 1992
B.S. Washington & Lee University, Geology, 1988

Awards

2005-2006 Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, School of the Coast and Environment

Research Interests

Biogeochemical cycling of nutrients (N & P) in Natural/Constructed Wetlands, Estuaries, and Lake Sytems; Water Quality, Pharmaceutical loading to wetlands, Nutrient Flux from sediments (internal loading), Plant-Soil Relationships.

Grants

2006-2007 FL Dept of Transportation - $68,000 Release of N and P from Road Construction Activities in the Florida Keys (P.I. J.R.White)
2006-2007 NSF-Louisiana Board of Regents – PFund Program $10,000 Pharmaceuticals Presence in Wastewater Entering Coastal Wetlands. (P.I. J.R. White).
2005-2006 Louisiana State University - Council on Research Faculty Research Grant program. $10,000 Removal of Pharmaceuticals from Mississippi River Water Diversions by Coastal Wetlands (P.I. J.R. White).
2005 - 2008. Louisiana Board of Regents - Research Competitiveness Subprogram. $136,744. Effect of large scale surface water diversions on wetland biogeochemistry and water quality. (P.I. J. R. White, Co-PI R. D. DeLaune).
2005. Louisiana State University - Council on Research for funding. $5000. Denitrification Capacity of Diversion Marsh Sediments. (P. I J.R.White).

Recent Publications

White, J.R., J. Hendrickson, J.L. Conkle. 2007. Effect of changing land use on water quality in the Coastal Zone. In A. Fares and A.I. El-Kadi (Eds.), Land Management Impacts on Coastal Watershed Hydrology, WIT Press, Southhampton, UK . (in press).
Malecki-Brown, L.M , J.R. White and K.R. Reddy 2007. Soil Biogeochemical Characteristics Influenced by Alum Application in a Municipal Wastewater Treatment Wetland. J. of Environ Qual. (in press)
Reddy, K.R., Y. Wang, M.M. Fisher, J.R. White and R.T. James. 2007. Potential effects of sediment dredging on internal phosphorus loading in a shallow subtropical lake. Lake and Reservoir Management 23:27-38.
Bostic, E.M. and J.R. White. 2007. Phosphorus and vegetation effects on P retention in wetland soil after a drawdown/reflood event. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 71:233-238.
White, J.R., M.A. Belmont and C.D. Metcalfe. 2006. Pharmaceutical compounds in wastewater: wetland treatment as a potential solution. TheScientificWorld Journal 6:1731-1736.
White, J.R., K.R. Reddy and J.M. Newman. 2006. Hydrology and vegetation effects on water quality in subtropical constructed wetlands. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 70:1242-1251.
Wang, H., Jawitz, J.W., White, J.R. and Martinez, C.J. and Sees, M.D. 2006. Rejuvenating the largest municipal treatment wetland in Florida. Ecological Engineering 26:132-146.
White, J.R. and M.A. Belmont. 2005. Wetlands for treatment of nutrient laden runoff from agricultural lands: models and Stormwater Treatment Area 1W as a case study for protection of the Everglades Ecosystem, USA. I n E.J. Dunne, K.R. Reddy and O.T. Carton (eds.) Nutrient Management in Agricultural Watersheds: A Wetland Solution. Wageningen Academic Publishers.
Malecki, L.M, J.R. White and K.R. Reddy. 2004. Nitrogen and phosphorus flux rates from sediment in the lower St. Johns River estuary. Journal of Environmental Quality 33:1545-1555.
White, J. R., K.R. Reddy, and M.Z. Moustafa. 2004. Influence of hydrology and vegetation on phosphorus retention in Everglades stormwater treatment wetlands. Hydrological Processes 18:343-355.