LA-COE News

Requesting Nominations for External Review Board

Nov 15, 2016

The RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana (Center) is convening an External Review Board (Board) to provide technical feedback to the Center ...

Center of Excellence Requests Proposals for $3M in Available Funds

Nov 18, 2016

BATON ROUGE, La. – The RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana released a Request for Proposals Friday encouraging coastal researchers, both st...

The Restore Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana Announces Awardees to Receive First Round of Oil Spill Grants

Jun 22, 2017

BATON ROUGE, La. - Enhancing sediment retention of diversions and improving flood risk assessment are just two of thirteen research projects recently ...

The RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana is soliciting feedback on a draft Research Needs document

Oct 30, 2018

BATON ROUGE, La. – The RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana (LA-COE) is soliciting feedback on a draft Research Needs document, which will i...

RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana project updates

Dec 17, 2018

The Water Institute of the Gulf was selected by Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority to serve as the State’s RESTORE Act Center of Excellence,...

First LA-COE graduate student defends thesis

Jun 28, 2019

John White, Ph.D. Professor of Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University Alina Spera, M.S., Department of Oceanogra...

New paper on research funded through LA-COE

May 6, 2020

Precipitation is one of the major driving factors in natural ecosystems and is highly critical to ongoing and future hydrological, environmental, and ...

Effects of barrier island salt marsh restoration on marsh bird occurrence in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Oct 5, 2020

In the northern Gulf of Mexico, salt marshes are threatened by sea level rise, erosion, and loss of protective barrier islands. These barrier islands ...