Bayousphere Research Lab
Current Graduate Research
Current research in the Bayousphere Research Lab involves field projects ranging from the upper Barataria Estuary in southeastern Louisiana all the way to the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Louisiana. Laboratory research includes work with spotted gar, alligator gar, water quality, and seed germination requirements. There are currently eleven graduate students working out of this lab!
| Benoit Lussier | Dune Restoration at Bay Champagne |
| Billy Finney | Optimizing Germination Rate for Black Mangrove Seeds |
| Lisa Breaux | Salt Acclimation of Spartina alterniflora |
| Emily Rombach | Hormonal and Physiological Reproductive Seasonality of Spotted Gar Lepisosteus oculatus in the Upper Barataria Estuary |
| Taren Manley | Spotted Gar Lepisosteus oculatus Diets in the Upper Barataria Estuary |
| Kent Bollfrass | Improving Growth Rates and Survival of Cultured Alligator Gar Atractosteus spatula with Live Feeds and Spotted Gar Lepisosteus oculatus with Thyroid Hormones |
| Justin Duke | Comparing Life History Characteristics of Alligator Gar Atractosteus spatula Collected From the Southern Terrebonne Estuary and the Rockefeller State Refuge |
| Taylor Allgood | Comparison of the Seasonal Fish Community Dynamics Within the Upper Barataria Estuary |
| Bo Boudreaux | Comparison of Largemouth Bass Life History Characteristics for Fish Collected From Two Lakes in the Upper Barataria Estuary |
| Michele Felterman | Comparing Diets of Alligator Gar Atractosteus spatula Collected From the Southern Terrebonne Estuary and the Rockefeller State Refuge |
| Dan Davies | Effect of Salinity on Growth of Larval and juvenile Alligator Gar Atractosteus spatula |