1. Quantifying Combined Suspended and Bed load Sediment Discharge of the Lower Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico (Mead Allison, Tulane University)
2. Inputs, Processing, and Fates of Nitrate and Suspended Sediment in Lower River and Plume (Michael Dagg/Rodney Powell, LUMCON)
3. Integrated Modeling of the Mississippi River Estuary (Cheryl Ann Blain, NRL)
4. River and Estuarine Contributions to Coastal Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico ( Michael Dagg/Rodney Powell, LUMCON)
5. Holocene Sea Level / Climate Relationships in the Central US Gulf of Mexico Coast (Torbjörn Törnqvist, Tulane University)
6. Surficial Investigation of the Baton Rouge Fault Scarp (Nancye Dawers, Tulane University)
7. Hurricane Katrina Impacts on Gulf Coast Forested Wetlands (Jeffrey Chambers, Tulane University)

1. Biosensor and Platform Development (Diane Blake, Tulane University, Bob Blake, Xavier University, George Rey, COTS)
2. Effect of Mississippi River Diversion on Carbon and Nitrogen Loading, Water Quality, Microbial Ecology, and Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico Wetlands (Ramaraj Boopathy, Nicholls State University)
3. Monitoring Reproductive Biomarkers of Fish and Amphibians in the Barataria-Terrebonne Wetlands Restoration Area (Gary Lafleur, Nicholls State University)
4. Impacts of Hypoxia and Sedimentary Naphthalene on Molting of the White Shrimp, Penaeus Setiferus (Enmin Zou, Nicholls State University)
5. Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products, From the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico (Guangdi Wang, Nicholls State University)

1. Spatial analysis of lower MississippiRiver
2. bathymetry
3. GIS data development
4. Mapping / analysis of pollutant data
5. GIS training
6. Develop maps and cartographic products

1. Integration of environmental sciences into high school curriculum
2. Students participation in field research
3. Students serving as teachers

(Doug Meffert, Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioeinvironmntal Research)