D.A. Blake, R.C. Blake II, E.R. Abboud, X. Li, H. Yu, A. M. Kriegel, M. Khosraviani, and I.A. Darwish (2007). Antibodies to heavy metals: Isolation, characterization and incorporation into microplate-based assays and immunosensors. In Immunoassay and other Bioanalytical Techniques (Ed. J.M. Van Emon), Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton, FL, pp 93-111.

Wilson, C. 2006. An Evaluation of Erosional Sediment Dynamics in Southeastern Louisiana Coastal Marshes: Barataria Bay, Breton Sound and Balize Delta. M.S. Thesis, Tulane University, 142 pp.

Wilson, C. and Allison, M. 2005. Subaqueous platform deflation in southeast Louisiana saltmarshes and implications for wetland restoration projects. CREST Symposium. Progress in Understanding Coastal Land Loss and restoration in Louisiana. Lafayette, Louisiana. April 12 - 13, 2005. (poster)

Wilson, C. and Allison, M.A., 2004. Wetland platform erosion by wave action and its implications for future mitigation projects in south Louisiana. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December.

Wilson, C. and Allison, M.A., 2004. Wetland platform erosion by wave action and its implications for future mitigation projects in south Louisiana. Environmental State of the State Conference, New Orleans, October.

Wilson, C.A. and Allison, M.A., 2006. Sediment dynamics and geomorphology of eroding marsh shorelines in southeastern Louisiana. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October.

Hester, M. W., J. M. Willis, and D. Lee. Assessment of cost-effective methods of enhancing vegetation success in barrier island restoration projects (poster presentation). CREST Symposium. Progress in Understanding Coastal Land Loss and restoration in Louisiana. Lafayette, Louisiana. April 12 - 13, 2005. (poster)

Hester, M. W., J. M. Willis, and D. Lee. Assessment of cost-effective methods of enhancing vegetation success in barrier island restoration projects. Environmental State of the State IX Conference. Environmental Research Consortium of Louisiana. University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana. October 22, 2004.

Willis, J. M., and M. W. Hester. (In Press) Evaluation of enhanced Panicum amarum establishment through fragment plantings and humic acid amendment. Journal of Coastal Research.

Cannaday, C., Gossman, B., O’Connell, J., La Peyre M.K., and Nyman, J.A. 2005. Effects of terraces on vegetation, nekton, and waterbirds. CREST Symposium. Progress in Understanding Coastal Land Loss and restoration in Louisiana. Lafayette, Louisiana. April 12 - 13, 2005 (poster).

Gossman B.P., La Peyre, M.K., and Nyman, J.A. 2004. The effectiveness of marsh terracing as a restoration technique for creating nekton habitat. Environmental State of the State IX, October 22, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Gossman B.P., La Peyre, M.K., and Nyman, J.A. 2005. The effectiveness of marsh terracing as a restoration technique for creating nekton habitat. Society of Wetland Scientists and Estuarine Research Federation Chapter Meeting, April 1, Pensacola, Florida.

Gossman, B. 2005. Use of Terraced Marsh Habitats by Estuarine Nekton in Southwestern Louisiana. M.S. Thesis, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.

Gossman, B., Megan La Peyre, M.K. and J.A. Nyman. 2006. A comparison of metrics to evaluate the success of restoring fishery habitat value using marsh terracing restoration projects. Restoration Ecology, submitted.

Gossman, B.P., M.K. La Peyre, and J.A. Nyman. 2005. Effectiveness of marsh terracing as a restoration technique. Estuarine Research Federation International Conference, Norfolk, VA, Oct. 17-20, 2005.

La Peyre, M.K., B. Gossman and J.A. Nyman. 2007. Assessing functional equivalency of nekton habitat in enhanced habitats: comparison of terraced and unterraced marsh ponds. Estuaries and Coasts, 30, 526-536.

Nyman, J.A. and M. K. La Peyre. 2005. A review of the brief history of terraces. CREST Symposium: a review of the Alton Jones Foundation Report. April 13, 2005. Lafayette, LA.

Nyman, J.A. and M.K. La Peyre 2005 A review of the brief history of terraces. CWPPRA Environmental Working Group PPL15 Meeting, June 2, 2005, Baton Rouge, LA.

Nyman, J.A. and M.K. La Peyre 2005 A review of the brief history of terraces. Gulf Coast Joint Venture meeting. May 26, 2005, Lafayette, LA.

Nyman, J.A. and M.K. La Peyre 2005 A review of the brief history of terraces. Sea Grant Extension Meeting, Louisiana Sea Grant, June 21, 2005, Baton Rouge, LA.

Melissa L. Partyka. 2005: Salt marsh communities in an anthropogenic landscape: habitat characteristics, distribution, and density of infauna, epifauna and nekton along an estuarine gradient. M.S. Thesis, University of New Orleans, 50 pp.

Partyka, M.L. and M.S. Peterson. 2005. Fish habitat in an anthropogenic landscape: characterizing the stationary habitat mosaic along an estuarine gradient. ASIH, 85th annual meeting, 6-11 July, Tampa, FL.

Partyka, M.L. and M.S. Peterson. 2005. Habitat fragmentation and shoreline hardening modify the habitat characteristics, distribution and density of saltmarsh infauna, epifauna and nekton. CREST annual meeting -Progress in Understanding Coastal Land Loss and Restoration in Louisiana: The W. Alton Jones Foundation Report Revisited, 12-14 April, Lafayette, LA. [Poster].

Partyka, M.P. and M.S. Peterson. 2004. Does habitat fragmentation and shoreline hardening alter density, growth and mortality patterns of fishes in an estuarine landscape? Environmental State of the State (ESOS), 9th annual meeting, 22 October, New Orleans, LA.

Peterson, M.S. (2006). Managing the impacts of residential docks and piers in Mississippi and Alabama. MS-AL conference, 15 February 2006 [oral presentation].

Roberts, H. 2005. High quality sand from the Pass-a-Loutre distributary mouth bar: a possible sand source for barrier island restoration. CREST Symposium. Progress in Understanding Coastal Land Loss and restoration in Louisiana. Lafayette, Louisiana. April 12 - 13, 2005 (poster).

Day, J.W., W.H. Conner, and G.P. Shaffer. The importance of pulsed physical events for sustainability of Louisana coastal forested wetlands. Hydrology and Management of Forested Wetlands Proceedings of the international Conference. 2006. American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, MI.

Effler, R. S., G.P. Shaffer, S.S. Hoeppner, and R.A. Goyer. (In press). Ecology of the Maurepas Swamp: Effects of Salinity, Nutrients, and Insect Defoliation. In: Tidally Influenced Forested Wetlands, Eds. W.H. Conner, K.W. Kraus, and T.W. Doyle. Springer.

Hoeppner, S. S., and G. P. Shaffer. 2005. Of droughts and hurricanes: a five-year study of degraded Cypress-Tupelo swamps in the Lake Maurepas wetlands, Louisiana. Oral presentation at the 1st Annual Louisiana State University, School of the Coast and Environment Graduate Student Symposium, Baton Rouge, LA ˆ Apr. 22, 2005.

Hoeppner, S. S., and K. A. Rose. 2005. Swamp succession in Coastal Louisiana: an individual-based, spatially explicit modeling approach. ˆ Oral Presentation at the Spring 2005 joint meeting of the South-Central Chapter of the Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS-SC) and the Gulf Estuarine Research Federation (GERS), Pensacola, FL ˆ Mar. 30 ˆ Apr. 2, 2005.

Hoeppner, S. S., G. P. Shaffer, and T. Perkins. 2005. Of droughts and hurricanes: A five-year study of the degraded cypress-tupelo swamps in the Lake Maurepas wetlands, Louisiana. Oral presentation at the Joint Meeting of the 90th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) and the IX International Congress of Ecology (INTECOL), Montreal, Quebec, Canada ˆ Aug. 7-12, 2005.

Hoeppner, S. S., K. A. Rose, E. Reyes, and J. W. Day, Jr. Modeling swamp succession in coastal Louisiana: the effect of multiple stressors on tree growth and survival. Oral presentation at the 18th Biennial Conference of the Estuarine Research Federation, Norfolk, VA ˆ Oct. 16-20, 2005.

Hoeppner, S. S., K. A. Rose, G. P. Shaffer, and J. W. Day Jr. 2005. Modeling swamp succession in Coastal Louisiana. Poster Presentation at the Coastal Restoration and Enhancement through Science and Technology (CREST) Symposium 2005, Lafayette, LA Apr. 12-13, 2005.

Hoeppner, S.S., Rose, K.A. and Day, J.W. Jr. 2003. An individual-based modeling approach to predict multiple stressor effects on swamp productivity and forest dynamics ion a coastal landscape: a precursor model.

Shaffer, G. 2004. Monitoring, experimentation, and modeling environmental stressors in the Maurepas swamp. Environmental State of the State (ESOS), 9th annual meeting, 22 October, New Orleans, LA.

Shaffer, G. P., T. E. Perkins, S. S. Hoeppner, and J. A. Zoller. 2005. Restoration amidst logging pressure in the degraded Maurepas swamp, Louisiana: a Mississippi River diversion feasibility study. Oral presentation at the Joint Meeting of the 90th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) and the IX International Congress of Ecology (INTECOL), Montreal, Quebec, Canada ˆ Aug. 7-12, 2005.

Baustian, J. J. Backfilling canals in coastal Louisiana: Restoration success after two decades. Environmental State of the State Conference, New Orleans, LA, October 2004 Student presentation award: 2nd place - presentation

Baustian, J. J. Long-term monitoring of backfilled canals in coastal Louisiana: Restoration success after two decades. Restore America’s Estuaries Meeting, Seattle, WA, September 2004 - poster

Baustian, J. J., R.E. Turner. Restoration success of backfilling canals in coastal Louisiana marshes. 2005 CREST Symposium, Lafayette, LA, April 2005 - poster

Baustian, J. J., R.E. Turner. Restoration success of backfilling canals in coastal Louisiana marshes. Restoration Ecology 14, 634-644.

Baustian, J. J., R.E. Turner. Restoration success of backfilling canals in coastal Louisiana marshes. Society of Wetland Scientists, Charleston, SC June 2005 - presentation

Baustian, J.J. 2005. Restoration success of backfilling canals in coastal Louisiana marshes. M.S. Thesis, LSU, 89 pp.

Van Heerden, I. 2003. Enhancement of Delta Growth to Compensate for Navigation Channel Impacts, Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium of Coastal Engineering and Science of Coastal Sediment Processes. Clearwater Fla., May 2003, 11p.