Affiliates

Coastal Studies Institute

The Coastal Studies Institute (CSI) is an interdisciplinary organization established to foster collaborative coastal science and engineering research in coastal settings, with over twenty leading faculty and more students spanning five departments in five colleges and schools at LSU. CSI is a centerpiece of LSU's Commitment to the Coast. CSI provides researchers with field support in a dedicated 8000 sq. ft. building housing separate space for maintenance and calibration laboratories, fabrication and machine shops, and equipment storage. Major equipment at CSI includes R/V Coastal Profiler, a fleet of small boats, acoustic Doppler velocimeters, acoustic Doppler current profilers, optical backscatter sensors, bottom-mounted pressure sensors, five bottom-boundary-layer instrumentation tripods and many others. CSI provides funding for graduate students, attending conferences, and for research projects.