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Dr. Alex Kolker
Assistant Professor

Mailing Address:
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium
DeFelice Marine Center
8124 Highway 56
Chauvin, Louisiana 70344

Phone: 985-851-2837
Facsimile:985-851-2874
akolker@lumcon.edu

Educational Background

  • PhD, 2005, Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
    Stony Brook UniversityState University of New York
  • MA, 2000, Ecology
    Stony Brook University,State University of New York
  • BA, 1995
    University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

Research Interests

  • I am interested in the natural, climatic, and anthropogenic processes that govern coastal systems.

Current Projects

  • How Atmospheric Centers of Influence Short-Term Sea Level Change (with Stony Brook University)
  • Metagenomics Dynmamics in Oil Impacted and Non-Impacted Marshes in Barataria Bay (with Tulane and Los Alamos National Laboratory).
  • Impacts of Deepwater Horizon spill on the chemistry of coastal wetlands (with Texas A&M; LSU and Georgia Tech)
  • Hurricane impacts on Louisiana's Coast (CREST)
  • The Development of a River Dominated Coastal Wetlands Observatory (Funded by LEAG, with Collaborators at UNO and Texas A&M)

Publications

  • Kolker, A.S., Kirwan, M., Goodbred, S.L. and Cochran, J.K., 2010. Global climate changes recorded in coastal wetland sediments: Empirical Observations lined to Theoretical Predictions. Geophysical Research Letters, 37(L14706, doi:10.1029/2010GL043874).
  • Rahoon, D.R., Reed, D.J. Kolker, A.S., Brinson, M.M., Stevenson, J.C., Riggs, S., Christian, R., Reyes, E., Voss, C., Kunz, D., (2009). Coastal Wetland Sustainability. Chapter 4 in US Climate Change Science Program: Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.1 "Coastal Sensitivity to Sea Level Rise: A Focus on the Mid-Atlantic Region. US Environmental Protection Agency. p 189-237.
  • Kolker, A.S., Goodbred, S.L., Hameed, S. and Cochran, J.K., 2009. High resolution records of coastal systems responses to short-term sea-level variability. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 84(4): 493-508.
  • Kolker, A.S. and Hameed, S., 2007. Meteorologically driven trends in sea level rise. Geophysical Research Letters(L23616): DOI:2007GL021814.
  • Kolker, A.S. The Impacts of Climate Variability and Anthropogenic Activities on Salt Marsh Accretion and Loss on Long Island. Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 241 p.
8124 Highway 56
Chauvin, LA 70344

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