2025 News
March 10, 2025 - Nothing like being knee-deep in water training the next generation of scientists on water technology!
March 6, 2025 - The Water Quality Extension Lab hosted our first Onsite Wastewater Installers Workshop of the year in partnership with the Louisiana Department of Health for sanitarians to be certified and licensed. A big thanks to the Hammond Research Station for letting me host, Richard from LDH for support, and the workshop participants for their active participation throughout the workshop!
February 28, 2025 - There is nothing like spending some good quality time with your grad student in the field. Water sensors have officially been deployed and data should be pouring in soon. Thanks, Khan for the awesome picture.
February 27, 2025 - Back in Hammond for the Landscape Education Day! Thank you, Dr. Abdi for inviting me to speak on "Using Technology to Determine Water Quality Impact on Pond Health" and demoing the BlueBoat and floating solar platform.
February 26, 2025 - It finally happened...the BlueBoat made its first mapping voyage! Now we just need to process the data!
February 25, 2025 - A big thank you to Jon at Gulf Crown for working with our students yesterday on a sustainability assessment! It was such a great opportunity to see engineering in aquaculture processors. Enamul and Mysha were also able to grab some effluent for their research projects!
February 20, 2025 - The first of a few trips to Hammond starts with the Pesticide Recertification Workshop. Thank you Dr. Abdi for the invite and I hope the "Fate of Pesticide in Louisiana Waterways" presentation was impactful for the stakeholders there!
February 19, 2025 - Thank you to Rachael Matthews from the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality for speaking with my class about the scientific processes in the state sector. It was such a great opportunity for the students and me to learn about how the Water Quality Integrated Report works!
February 17, 2025 - Thank you to Megan Arias from Xylem for giving a guest lecture in my EMS 4040 class. The students enjoyed hearing about her experience as a scientist and gaining valuable insight into real-world opportunities!
February 12, 2025 - Thank you to Emelia Marshall from The Water Institute for coming over and talking to EMS 4040 about her experience as a coastal ecologist. I think the students enjoyed learning about your expertise and career pathway!
February 11, 2025 - Today I got to be the headliner for Dr. Lively and Dr. Caffey, as we all gave presentations at the AgLeadership Summit in Thibodaux. A big thank you to Dr. Soileau for the invite to talk and hopefully there was some useful information on water resources around the state.
February 4-5, 2025 - Our Sea Grant quarterly meeting was a great time to catch up with the team give two updates on field equipment, and review of federal funding opportunities.
February 3, 2025 - I got to get my boots wet teaching the EMS 4040 class different sampling techniques! Thanks, Enamul for the picture and Dr. White for letting me borrow your field gear!
January 22, 2025 - They don't train water quality specialists in the southeast for frozen water!
January 16, 2025 - I had a great day down in Delcambre with the Sea Grant team touring shrimp processing facilities. I hope this leads to a few partners for upcoming projects!
January 13, 2025 - Welcome our newest PhD student Md. Enamul Moni to the group! After finishing up his Master's in Winnsboro, he is joining the Water Quality Extension Lab to work on fluorescence identification of dissolved organic matter.
January 9, 2025 - A big thank you to Eric DeBoer and the Louisiana Turfgrass Association for letting me speak at their annual conference. For those who were able to hear me (...I had laryngitis), I spoke about water quality impact on irrigation and runoff from turfgrass.
January 7, 2025 - Great way to start off the new year with a trip down Bayou Lafourche! Thanks Dustin for showing us around and educating our team on the processes to get water through the region. Picture taken by Mahathir Bappy and includes (left to right): Mahathir Bappy, M.P. Hayes, Mason Marcantel, Peng Fu, Dustin Rabalais (Bayou Lafourche Freshwater District), Haley Gambill, ans Craig Gautreaux.