Funded Projects

With support from funding agencies and collaborators, our team has raised more than
$ 45.6 million extramural research funds since August 2014

($41.2 million to LSU including subawards, $4.6 million as the lead PI, $36.7 million as a co-PI) 

 

Ongoing Projects



2023-2028

The Mississippi River Delta Transition Initiative

 (Xue is a Co-PI; Zang and Zhao are senior personnel)

NAS GRP

National Academy of Science Gulf Research Program

2023-2028

A Real-time System to Track Louisiana Coastal Hazards: High Frequency Radar Ocean Observing Network

(Xue is a co-PI)

NOAA

NOAA

2022-2026

Offshore Analysis of Seafloor Instability and Sediments (OASIS Partnership) with Applications to Offshore Safety and Marine Archaeology

(Xue is a co-PI)

BOEM

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

2022-2024

The development of observation and modeling system for assessing scallop growth potential in the Northeast U.S. Shelf

(Zang is the Lead PI)

NOAA

NOAA

2023-2025

CC* Data Storage: Tiger Den: sustainable campus-wide data system to support CI-enabled research and education

(Zhao is co-PI)

NSF

NSF

2023-2025

Hydrodynamic Modeling Support for Oyster Metapopulation Modeling

(Xue is PI, Zang is co-PI)  

CPRA

CPRA/WI


2022-2025

Impacts of Transient Events on Ecosystem Resistance and Resilience along Western Gulf of Mexico Coast

(Xue is the Lead PI)

NASA

NASA

2021-2025

COAWST WSSSR Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Waves Sediment Transport Waves, Sediment, Surge and Structure Response Forecasting System

(Xue is LSU PI)

NOPP

National Oceanographic Partnership Program

2021-2024

Larval orientation, dispersal and connectivity  in a brachyuran crab under ocean acidification and elevated temperature 

(Xue is a co-PI)

NSF

National Science Foundation


2021-2024 

Coupled Ocean Modeling Testbed (COMT) Platform for Physics and Contaminant Exchange through the River - Estuary - Ocean Continuum

(Xue is a co-PI)

NOAA

NOAA

2020-2023

Impact of Nonlinear Sedimentation on Dredge Area Benthic Ecosystem on Louisiana Shelf

(Xue is the Lead PI) 

BOEM

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

2019-2023

Synergistic Effects of Petroleum Production and Ocean Environmental Changes on Oyster

(Xue is the Lead PI)

NSF

National Science Foundation


2021-2023

Using a Coupled Numerical Modeling System to Investigate Flooding Impacts During Hurricane Florence (2018)

(Xue is the Lead PI)

USGS

US Geological Survey

 

 




Finished Projects

2014-2015

Developing an Integrated Modeling System to Assess and Project Impacts of Human Activity and Climate Change on Terrestrial-Ocean Carbon and Nutrient Associated Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics in the Gulf of Mexico

(Xue was the Lead PI)

LBOR

Louisiana Board of Regents

2016-2017

Access Climate Change and Human Activities' Impact on the Coastal Environment of the Mekong Delta using High Performance Computing Techniques

(Xue was the Lead PI)

VEF

Vietnam Education Foundation

2017-2018

Development of a Fully Coupled Atmospheric-Hydrological Model for Louisiana Coastal Rivers

(Xue was the Lead PI)

LSU

Louisiana State University


2017-2019

Enhancing Sediment Retention Rate of Receiving Basins of Louisiana Sediment Diversions

(Xue was a co-PI)

LaCOE

Louisiana Center of Excellence

2017-2019

Project Louisiana River's Sediment Flux to the Coastal Ocean Using a Coupled Atmospheric-Hydrological Model

(Xue was the Lead PI)

LaCOE

Louisiana Center of Excellence

2017-2020

Development of a Monitoring Program for Water Quality and Biogeochemical Processes of Louisiana Sediment Borrow Areas

(Xue was a co-PI)

BOEM

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management


2015-2021

CyberSEES: Type 2: A Coastal Resilience Collaboratory: Cyber-enabled Discoveries for SustainableDeltaic Coasts

(Xue was a co-PI)

NSF

National Science Foundation

2016-2021 

Fate of Coastal Wetland Carbon Under Increasing Sea Level Rise: Using the Subsiding Louisiana Coast as a Proxy for Future World-Wide Sea Level Projection

(Xue was a co-PI)

NSF

National Science Foundation

2020-2021

A Numerical Assessment of Louisiana's Surface Water Resource over the Past Three Decades

(Xue was the Lead PI)

LWRRI

Louisiana Water Resource Research Institute


2018-2022

Development of a Fully Coupled Hydrology-Sediment Model to Evaluate Economic Costs of Soil Erosion in Southwest Louisiana

(Xue was the Lead PI) 

LSU

 

 

Louisiana State University

 2016-2020 


Using Linked Models to Predict the Impacts of Hypoxia on Gulf Coast Fisheries Under Scenarios of Watershed and River Management

(Xue is a co-PI)

NOAA

NOAA  

2018-2022 

Understanding and Quantifying Carbon Export to Coastal Oceans through Deltaic Systems

(Xue is the Lead PI)           

NASA

NASA & LA Board of Regents


2020-2021

RAPID: Waiting to Exhale: Quantifying Tropical Storm-Induced Increased Flux of Coastal Wetland Carbon into the Atmosphere?

(Xue is a co-PI)

NSF

National Science Foundation