The research team brings together six universities, multiple departments and research centers, an external evaluator, two advisors, and a dozen collaborators.


Principal Investigator, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, emad.habib@louisiana.edu

Senior Personnel, Assistant Professor, Research, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, mohamed.elsaadani@louisiana.edu

Jiang Li
PhD Graduate Student, School of Geosciences, jiang.li1@louisiana.edu

PhD Graduate Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, mostafa.nasser1@louisiana.edu

Post-Doctoral Researcher, School of Geosciences, ishita.pal1@louisiana.edu

Rikki Skelton
Project Administrative Staff, Institute for Coastal and Water Research, rikki.skelton@lousiana.edu

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Institute for Coastal and Water Research, selena.hinojos@louisiana.edu

MS Graduate Student, Department of Psychology, maria.lindquist1@louisiana.edu

MS Graduate Student, Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering, claire.orgeron1@louisiana.edu

Senior Personnel, Professor, School of Geosciences, brian.schubert@louisiana.edu

Senior Personnel, Associate Professor, College of Education & Human Development, heather.stone@louisiana.edu

Senior Personnel, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Design, donggyu.lee@louisiana.edu

Senior Personnel, Assistant Professor, School of Geosciences, bingqing.liu@louisiana.edu

Senior Personnel, Director of Research, Kathleen Blanco Public Policy Center, anna.osland@louisiana.edu

Senior Personnel, Associate Professor of History, liz.skilton@louisiana.edu

Research Associate, Kathleen Blanco Public Policy Center, emma.willis@louisiana.edu


Co-Principal Investigator, Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, sburian@ua.edu

Hydrologic Scientist, Alabama Water Institute, sakoriche@ua.edu

PhD Graduate Student, Department of Geography and Environment, atabassum@crimson.ua.edu

MS Graduate Student, Department of Geography and Environment, eglowe1@crimson.ua.edu

PhD Graduate Student, Department of Geography and Environment, mhaque8@crimson.ua.edu

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Alabama Water Institute, asuresh2@ua.edu

PhD Graduate Student, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, nwasankar@crimson.ua.edu


Co-Principal Investigator, Research Assistant Professor, Bywater Institute, sdomingue@tulane.edu

PhD Graduate Student, School of Liberal Arts, sruiz1@tulane.edu


Senior Personnel, Professor, Department of Policy and Administration, jae-young.ko@jsums.edu

Jasmine Thomas
Graduate Student, Department of Public Policy and Administration, J00820311@students.jsums.edu

Co-Principal Investigator, Associate Professor, Department of Urban & Regional Planning, berneece.herbert@jsums.edu

PhD Graduate Student, Department of Urban & Regional Planning, j01045823@students.jsums.edu

Tara Jackson
Graduate Student, Department of Public Policy and Administration, J00985141@students.jsums.edu
Tuskegee University

Co-Principal Investigator, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, gelafandi@tuskegee.edu

PhD Graduate Student, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, ralgendy4656@tuskegee.edu


Senior Personnel, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, tdouthat1@lsu.edu

PhD Graduate Student, Department of Environmental Sciences, mcerag1@lsu.edu

Senior Personnel, Assistant Professor, Research, Department of Geography and Anthropology, vbrow31@lsu.edu

PhD Graduate Student, Department of Geography and Anthropology, brad.jennings@lsu.edu

Senior Personnel, Assistant Professor, Research, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, Louisiana Office of State Climatology, nbushr@lsu.edu
External Evaluator & Advisory Board
Collaborators
- Kelia Bingham, Acadiana Planning Commission, Lafayette, Louisiana
- Rachel Goudeaux, Chief Administrative Officer, Lafayette Consolidated Government
- Jessica Cornay, Engineering Supervisor, Lafayette Consolidated Government
- Roslyn R. White, Mayor, City of Abbeville, Abbeville, Louisiana
- Larry Richard, President, Iberia Parish, Louisiana
- Garland Pennison, HDR
- Nick Amberger, Executive Director of Engineering & Infrastructure, City of Mobile
- Mike Evans, Director, Mobile County Emergency Management Agency , Mobile County
- Eddie Kerr, County Administrator, Mobile County
- Lance Slater, Director, Office of Resilience and Sustainability, City of Mobile
- William Strickland, Director, Mobile Baykeeper
- Roberta Swann, Director, Mobile Bay National Estuary Program



