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BATON ROUGE – LSU junior Alexia LaGrone has been named a Udall Scholar by the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation. The Lafayette native was one of 55 students from 42 colleges and universities to have been selected as 2021 Udall Scholars. A 20-member independent review committee selected this year’s group of Udall Scholars on the basis of commitment to careers in the environment, Tribal public policy, or Native health care; leadership potential; record of public service; and academic achievement.
Each scholarship provides up to $7,000 for the Scholar’s junior or senior year. Since the first awards in 1996, the Udall Foundation has awarded 1,788 Scholarships totaling over $9.1 million.
This reduction in capacity could significantly alter the global carbon budget, given that Louisiana s marsh soils account for between 5 and 21 percent of the global soil carbon storage in tidally influenced wetlands, said Melissa Baustian, lead author and coastal ecologist at The Water Institute of the Gulf.
The article, Long-term carbon sinks in marsh soils of coastal Louisiana are at risk to wetland loss examined 24 south Louisiana sites located within four marsh habitats defined by the amount of saltwater influence fresh, intermediate, brackish, and saline. Carbon sink is a reservoir that stores more carbon than it releases.
By working with colleagues from U.S. Geological Survey, Vernadero Group, Abt Associates, and Tulane University the team used marsh habitat maps from 1949 to 2013, deep soil cores, soil carbon accumulation rates, and maps of future marsh area, to confirm the importance of considering historical habitats when evaluating a coastal areas long-term ability t
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BATON ROUGE, La. (March 2021) - Without restoration efforts in coastal Louisiana, marshes in the state could lose half of their current ability to store carbon in the soil over a period of 50 years, according to a new paper published in
American Geophysical Union Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. This reduction in capacity could significantly alter the global carbon budget, given that Louisiana s marsh soils account for between 5 and 21 percent of the global soil carbon storage in tidally influenced wetlands, said Melissa Baustian, lead author and coastal ecologist at The Water Institute of the Gulf.
The article, Long-term carbon sinks in marsh soils of coastal Louisiana are at risk to wetland loss examined 24 south Louisiana sites located within four marsh habitats defined by the amount of saltwater influence - fresh, intermediate, brackish, and saline. Carbon sink is a reservoir that stores more carbon than it releases.
Industry Overuse Puts Capital City Drinking Water At Risk
Until about 10 years ago, the 86-year-old retired contractor was like most of his neighbors in the city’s leafy Southdowns neighborhood near Louisiana State University; he simply didn’t put much thought into the water flowing from his taps.
But then he went back to school and learned about hydrology and the movement of water underground. He got a master’s degree in climatology and wrote his thesis on the city’s freshwater supply.
“I became very concerned that the aquifer was in danger from saltwater intrusion,” said Town, who now leads Baton Rouge Citizens to Save Our Water Inc., a nonprofit fighting for more oversight of the water system.