Role: Research Assistant I

Land loss and coastal erosion are major issues Louisiana is facing. Partnering with the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL), the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) built an artificial living shoreline with recycled oyster shell to stabilize critical marsh edges along the marine center in Cocodrie, Louisiana.

My role in this effort is supporting benthic community sampling efforts to monitor how this structure is impacting the local wildlife. We accomplish this through bioacoustics, minnow and crab traps, infaunal sediment cores, and oyster shell habitat tray sampling.