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)
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
2022-2026
Offshore Analysis of Seafloor Instability and Sediments (OASIS Partnership) with Applications to Offshore Safety and Marine Archaeology
(Xue is a co-PI)
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
2023-2025
CC* Data Storage: Tiger Den: sustainable campus-wide data system to support CI-enabled research and education
(Zhao is co-PI)
NSF
2023-2025
Hydrodynamic Modeling Support for Oyster Metapopulation Modeling
(Xue is PI, Zang is co-PI)
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
2021-2025
COAWST WSSSR Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Waves Sediment Transport Waves, Sediment, Surge and Structure Response Forecasting System
(Xue is LSU PI)
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)
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
2020-2023
Impact of Nonlinear Sedimentation on Dredge Area Benthic Ecosystem on Louisiana Shelf
(Xue is the Lead PI)
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
2019-2023
Synergistic Effects of Petroleum Production and Ocean Environmental Changes on Oyster
(Xue is the Lead PI)
National Science Foundation
2021-2023
Using a Coupled Numerical Modeling System to Investigate Flooding Impacts During Hurricane Florence (2018)
(Xue is the Lead PI)
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)
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)
Vietnam Education Foundation
2017-2018
Development of a Fully Coupled Atmospheric-Hydrological Model for Louisiana Coastal Rivers
(Xue was the Lead PI)
Louisiana State University
2017-2019
Enhancing Sediment Retention Rate of Receiving Basins of Louisiana Sediment Diversions
(Xue was a co-PI)
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)
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)
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)
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)
National Science Foundation
2020-2021
A Numerical Assessment of Louisiana's Surface Water Resource over the Past Three Decades
(Xue was the Lead PI)
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)
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
2018-2022
Understanding and Quantifying Carbon Export to Coastal Oceans through Deltaic Systems
(Xue is the Lead PI)
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)
National Science Foundation