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The communications specialist for the LSU College of the Coast & Environment can assist you with finding information for a story, finding a faculty member who can provide an expert opinion, arranging interviews and finding possible story ideas and photo opportunities. The college also sends out media advisories, press releases and news and feature articles to the media, which you can find below.

Contact Bobbi Parry via email or at (225) 578-6534.

Latest News from CCE

After the Great Flood: Students Learn New Lessons from One of US History's Biggest Disasters

Students in Environmental Sciences Professor Linda M. Hooper-Bùi's Environmental Thought class are taking a deeper look at the Mississippi River Flood of 1927, and discussing history that has a lot of ramifications for today.

DOCS Graduate Student Leads Team to Victory in Soil Judging Championship

Oceanography & Coastal Sciences PhD student Jonathan Brye recently led an LSU team to first-place victory in the Region IV Collegiate Soil Judging Contest.

Community Resilience in Louisiana Gets a Boost from LSU’s Two GRP Early-Career Research Fellows

Two researchers from LSU College of the Coast & Environment and LSU E. J. Ourso College of Business have been named Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellows by the National Academies. Nazla Bushra and Holly Peterson will each receive resources and support for their work identifying how climate-related stressors, such as heat, flooding and pollution, affect human health, community resilience and regional economies.

Latest Research from CCE

October 26, 2026

Sharks in the Water: LSU Researchers Find Sharks in Marine Sanctuary for the First Time: Oceanography & Coastal Sciences Professor Mike Dance and a multi-institutional team of collaborators have documented the presence of great white sharks in the Flower Garden Banks Marine Sanctuary.

September 30, 2026

Research Spotlight: Tracking the Silver Carp: Asian carp have been plaguing waterways up and down the Mississippi River. Christian Walker, an Oceanography & Coastal Sciences graduate student, is learning more about their habits in Louisiana.

September 28, 2026

This LSU Scientist Works in Some of Earth's Deepest Waters. She May Change the Way We Look at the Ocean.: Oceanography & Coastal Sciences Assistant Professor Amanda Achberger is going where almost no one has gone before: the deepest depths of the ocean, where she works to understand the micro-organisms that live in the crevices of hydrothermal vents.

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