Team News
Birdsfoot Field Trip
On March 29th, 2023, some team members had a wonderful field trip to the Birdsfoot delta. Dr. John Andrew Nyman from LSU guided us to get an overview of the vegetation in the south pass and its distributaries. We also collected some cores of marsh sediments using the Russian Peat Corer.
Dr. Nazmul Beg is going to leave our team to start a new career
By the end of March 2023, Nazmul will leave our team to start a new career. The team gathered to say goodbye and have lunch together for the last time. Thank you, Nazmul, for all the time with us!
Laura Manuel, a Ph.D. Candidate, has published a new paper
This paper presents a roadmap and detailed application of interdisciplinary, co-production strategies where managers and researchers are fully engaged in a collaborative manner in the design of a decision support tool for coastal ecosystems. It also emphasizes the importance of capturing end-users’ (i.e., natural resource managers) priorities to refine the conceptual design of the decision support tool, while maintaining a sound scientific and modeling framework. The case study presented here centers on the Northern Gulf of Mexico, but the concept can be exported globally to other systems. 1-s2.0-S1462901123000631-main
Team End of Year Celebration at Orleans Vue
In December 2022, the team celebrated the end of the year of Orleans Vue!
Deltares 2022 Software Days
On November 14, 2022, Dr. Meselhe served as a keynote speaker at the Deltares 2022 Software Days. He spoke on Delft3D Research and Modelling Activities.
Restore America’s Estuaries (RAE) Conference
Dr. Meselhe and Laura Manuel participated in a panel at the 2022 RAE Conference.
Dr. Meselhe, Nazmul and Emma go to Iowa with NSF
Visiting Iowa City for our NSF-funded research project was extremely beneficial to our understanding of the project scope and study area that we are modeling. We met with our University of Iowa partners to coordinate project tasks and brainstorm. This was a great opportunity to put our heads together and develop some new ideas for moving forward. Seeing Clear Creek and the instrumentation setup provided a clear idea of the system that we are simulating using 1D and 3D numerical models so we may have a more realistic background when evaluating our results.
Laura Manuel Attends and Presents at the ECSA 59 Conference
Tulane School of Science and Engineering Rocket Innovation Challenge: August 2022
On August 25, 2022 members of our research team formed two groups to compete in a rocket building challenge hosted by Tulane’s School of Science and Engineering. The groups had to create a rocket out of paper, velcro, and K’nex and combine kitchen ingredients to create a “rocket fuel”. Laura Mauel, Katelyn Keller, and Emma House were one team and Ali Abdelrahim, Sherif Ahmed, and Ahmed Khalifa formed another. Katelyn, Laura, and Emma won first place in the overall challenge!
Summer Institute: June 2022 – July 2022
EWRI-ASCE 2022 – June 2022
Dr. Ehab Meselhe, and Ahmed Khalifa had the opportunity to attend the 2022 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress in Atlanta, GA. Networking and learning about the exciting work happening in all over the world made this conference a fruitful experience. Dr. Meselhe, and Ahmed presented their oral presentation titled “Morphodynamic Analysis of the 1927 Caernarvon Crevasse Event“.
Team Meeting – May 2022
In order to maintain a healthy work environment, our team had it’s periodic informal meeting late May.
Graduation Dinner – May 2022
Our team gathered together to celebrate our very own Katelyn Keller’s upcoming Spring 2022 graduation. She has earned her Master’s degree, and we are very proud of her accomplishments. We will miss her and will always be excited to have her back to visit the team.
From left, Laura Manuel, Katelyn Keller, Dr. Ehab Meselhe, Dr. Kelin Hu, and Ahmed Khalifa
GOMCON 2022 – April 2022
Dr. Ehab Meselhe, Dr. Barb Kleiss, and Laura Manuel had the opportunity to attend the Gulf of Mexico Conference in Baton Rouge, LA. Networking and learning about the exciting work happening in the Gulf of Mexico region made this conference a great experience. Dr. Meselhe, Laura, and Dr. Kleiss hosted a workshop, presented a research poster, and had a chance to meet in person with collaborators on their project.
Tulane researchers see a ‘win-win’ in finding alternatives to using the Bonnet Carre Spillway to prevent flooding – February 2022
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Potluck – February 2022
From left, Dr. Nazmul Beg, Laura Manuel, Katelyn Keller, Dr. Kelin Hu, Kiley Marandino, Dr. Ehab Meselhe, and Ahmed Khalifa.
American Geophysical Union (AGU) – December 2021
This December, our team members Nazmul and Katelyn were able to attend AGU in New Orleans.
Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers Conference – America (YCSECA) 2021
This October, our graduate students had the honor of presenting posters at YCSECA 2021 in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. This was a great opportunity to share the knowledge and progress of our team’s research endeavors and learn about the projects of other graduate students in the field. Take a peek at some pictures from this year’s conference!
River Science and Engineering Graduate Certificate Presentation – August 2021
At the end of the Fall Semester, three of our team members received their Graduate Certificate in River Coastal Science and Engineering. This ceremony, held at the New Orleans Corps District office, was attended by students and faculty at Tulane and the Army Corps of Engineers, including Dean Kimberly Foster, the Commander of New Orleans District, Colonel Murphy, the Deputy District Chief, Mark Wingate, the Chief of Engineering, Jean Vossen. More information about this collaborative program can be found at https://sse.tulane.edu/river.
