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Current Projects

Examining hydrodynamics and connectivity resulting from atmospheric frontal passages in a coastal river delta

National Science Foundation: 2021-2024 (No-cost extension)

$375,640 (Hiatt PI)

Collaborator(s): Chunyan Li

Student(s): Sajjad Feizabadi

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Collaborative Research: MRA: Scale, Space, and Time: A Unifying Approach to Aquatic Invasions

National Science Foundation: 2021-2024

$263,511 (Hiatt co-PI)

Collaborator(s): Steve Midway, Traci Birch, and many others

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CAREER: Dynamic water transport timescales: Quantifying hydrodynamic responses to perturbations across time and space in a river delta

National Science Foundation: 2022-2027

$480,942 (Hiatt PI)

Student(s): Madoche Jean Louis, Muzahidul "Mojo" Islam (MS 2025), Maya Maes-Johnson

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Developing Engineering practices for Ecosystem Design Solutions (DEEDS): Calibrating Ecosystem Services to Advance Performance of Natural Infrastructure in Military Operations

US Army Corps of Engineers: 2022-2025

$6,668,680 (Hiatt PI)

Collaborator(s): Robert Twilley, Traci Birch, Clint Willson, Carol Friedland

Student(s): Caitlin Turner and Madoche Jean Louis

Postdocs: Jesbin George and Hemanth Vundavilli

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Roseau cane die-back: Multidisciplinary approaches to address plant decline and opportunities for restoration: Field measurements of overbank flooding

LSU Ag Center: 2022-2024

$124,604 (Hiatt PI)

Collaborator(s): Kory Konsoer & Andy Nyman

Student(s): Sarah Brannum

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Roseau cane die-back: Relationships between vegetation and discharge on distributary channels
in the Birds Foot Delta: bifurcations and sediment flux

LSU Ag Center: 2023-2025

$121,747 (Hiatt co-PI)

Collaborator(s): Kory Konsoer & Andy Nyman

Student(s): Sarah Brannum

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Monitoring of waves and currents in Barataria Bay and Breton Sound

Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority 2025-2028

$309,324 (Hiatt PI)

Collaborator(s): Jesbin George

Ocean

Mississippi River Delta Transition Initiative

National Academies of Sciences Gulf Research Program 2023-2028

$22,000,000 (Hiatt co-PI - $373,973)

Collaborator(s): 30+ collaborators

Student(s): Sarah Brannum

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Collaborative Research: RAPID: Determining the
Impacts of a Combined Historical Watershed and Regional Drought on Coastal Louisiana Wetland
Ecohydrology

National Science Foundation 2023-2024

$23,000 (Hiatt co-PI )

Collaborator(s): John White, Elliott White Jr. (Stanford)

Student(s): Noah Flaherty

Wetland Creation

Marsh surface water, shallow groundwater, and porewater salinity dynamics between the Mississippi River and adjacent estuaries

RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana 2024-2026

$131,588 (Hiatt PI )

Collaborator(s): John White

Student(s): Noah Flaherty

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WIdening the Nation's STEM Workforce INside Louisiana: WIN-WIN

NSF EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP)

$1,590,000 (Hiatt co-PI )

Collaborator(s): Paul Miller, Kevin McPeak

Student(s): TBD

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Coastal Research & Engineering to Advance Testbeds for Ecosystem Design (CREATED): Engineering Performance of Natural and NatureBased Solutions

US Army Corps of Engineers

$2,503,190 allocated of $7,813,055 (Hiatt co-PI )

Collaborator(s): Robert Twilley, Traci Birch, Clint Willson, Carol Friedland, Matthew Brand, Chris Kees, Md. Adilur Rahim, Jacob Berkowitz

Student(s): TBD

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Completed Projects

Controls of physical drivers on phytoplankton community adaptations in a river diversion influenced estuary

Louisiana Sea Grant: 2020-2024

$142,696 (Hiatt PI)

Collaborator(s): Sibel Bargu and John White

Student(s): Caitlin Turner

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Controls of physical drivers on phytoplankton community adaptations in a river diversion influenced estuary

Louisiana Sea Grant: 2020-2024

$142,696 (Hiatt PI)

Collaborator(s): Sibel Bargu and John White

Student(s): Caitlin Turner

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Monitoring of waves and currents in Barataria Bay & Breton Sound

Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority: 2020-2022; 2022-2025

Project 1 - $226,769 (Hiatt PI)

Project 2 - $272,557 (Hiatt PI)

Student(s): Jay Merrill MS 2022, Jacob Reinhardt BS 2022, Lily Vowels MS 2025

Postdocs(s): Jesbin George

Collaborators: Giulio Mariotti

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Mississippi River Delta Survey and Sampling

Louisiana Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority: 2022

$88,830 (Hiatt PI)

Collaborator(s): Sam Bentley & Kevin Xu

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Mississippi River 2020-2021 Data Collection in Support of the Mid-Breton Diversion

Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority: 2020-2021

$188,461 (Hiatt co -PI)

Collaborator(s): Sam Bentley & Kevin Xu

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2019 Survey of Mississippi River near Middle Breton Diversion

Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority: 2019-2020

$441,327 (Hiatt co -PI)

Collaborator(s): Sam Bentley & Kevin Xu

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