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Dr. Alex Kolker
Assistant Professor

Mailing Address:
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium
Defelice 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

  • The Changing History and Impacts of Hurricanes along Louisiana's Coast and the Implications to Coastal Restoration and Revitalization

Publications

  • 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. 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.
  • Kolker, A.S., Goodbred, S.L., Hameed, S. and Cochran, J.K., High Resolution Records of Coastal System Response to Short-Term Sea Level Variability. Submitted to Geophysical Research Letters.
8124 Highway 56
Chauvin, LA 70344

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