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Purple, GREEN, and Gold: One LSU Alum's Pursuit of an Eco-Friendly Mardi Gras
LSU College of the Coast & Environment alumnus Kevin Fitzwilliam is relentless in the pursuit of a "greener" Mardi Gras. While Fat Tuesday has always been associated with excess--and excess trash--this environmental sciences graduate has built a business around eliminating plastic waste from this time-honored celebration and lifting Ugandan women out of poverty in the process.
Three Coastal Environmental Science Undergraduates Receive Spring 2020 LSU Discover Grants
On January 17, LSU Discover Undergraduate Research Program announced their Spring 2020 Research Grant recipients. This grant awards undergraduates at LSU with a minimum 3.0 GPA. Three of the 15 winners are undergraduates from LSU's College of the Coast & Environment: Kendall Brome, Denise Poveda, and Callie Snow.
Gallery: LSU College of the Coast & Environment December 2019 Graduation
The College of the Coast & Environment's world-renowned faculty emphasize highly interactive classes because we recognize that, in our field, adaptability is paramount. We offer five concentrations for undergraduates, three fast-track options, and five advanced degrees so that our graduates are well prepared to tackle a rapidly changing physical environment that is reshaping and expanding the coastal and environmental workforce. Our alumni have gone on to become attorneys, oceanographers, climatologists, public health officials, ecologists, disaster responders, scientists, doctors, veterinarians, and more with our rigorous degrees.
LSU Professor: UN Climate Change Conference Report Foretells Oxygen Loss in the World's Oceans
Oxygen loss in the world's oceans, driven by climate change and nutrient pollution, is increasingly threatening fish species and disrupting ecosystems, according to a new report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN, released in December 2019 at the UN Climate Change conference in Madrid. LSU expert Nancy Rabalais, a professor in the Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, contributed to sections of the report concerning nutrient pollution. She has 34 years of experience studying deoxygenation in the Gulf of Mexico with Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, and three years ago she also joined LSU's College of the Coast & Environment.