Edward Laws
 

Dean, LSU School of the Coast & Environment
Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences

1002R Energy, Coast & Environment Building
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA - 70803

Tel:      225-578-3334
Fax:     225-578-5328
E-mail: edlaws@lsu.edu

Education
  • A.B. 1967 - Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
  • Ph.D. 1972 - Chemical Physics, Harvard University, Cambrige, Mass
Research Interests
  • Phytoplankton Ecology
  • Aquatic Pollution
  • Aquaculture
Grants
  • National Science Foundation - $239,098. Collaborative Research: A Critical Examination of the Relationship Between Marine Phytoplankton Growth Rates and Phosphate Concentrations: Monod or Not. 03/15/07 – 03/14/10
  • National Science Foundation - $312,596. An Adaptive Food Web Model for the Epipelagic and Mesopelagic. 08/15/04 – 07/31/08

Recent Publications
  1. Laws, E. A. 2008. Food web structure and planktonic predator/prey relationships in two eutrophic European lakes: Stability constraints on carbon fluxes. Limnology and Oceanography 53: 760-772.

  2. Cassar, N., and E. A. Laws. 2007. Potential contribution of b-carboxylases to photosynthetic carbon isotope fractionation in a marine diatom. Phycologia 46(3): 307-314.

  3. Laws, E. A. 2007. Climate Change, Oceans, and Human Health. Ocean Yearbook 21: 129-175.

  4. Sinigalliano, C. D., Gidley, M. L., Shibata, T., Whitman, D., Dixon, T. H., Laws, E. A., Hou, A., Bachoon, D., Brand, L., Amaral-Zettler, L., Gast, R., Stewad, G. F., Nigro, O. D., Fujioka, R., Betancourt, W. Q., Vithanage, G., Mathews, J., Fleming, L. E., and Solo-Gabriele, H. M. 2007. Impacts of hurricane Katrina on microbial landscape of the New Orleans area. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104: 9029-9034.

  5. Hood, R. R., E. A. Laws, M. J. Follows, and D. A. Siegel. 2007. Modeling and prediction of marine microbial populations in the genomic era. Oceanography 20(2): 155-165.

  6. Hou, A., B. Qi, E. A. Laws, and R. J. Portier. 2007. Impacts of hurricane Katrina: Water supply, drainage, wastewater systems, and water quality in New Orleans. China Water and Wastewater 24(4): 1-8

  7. Cassar, N., E. A. Laws, and B. N. Popp. 2006. Carbon fractionation by the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum under nutrient- and light-limited growth conditions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70: 5323-5335.

  8. Hood, R. R., E. A. Laws, R. Armstrong, N. Bates, C. W. Brown, C. Carlson, F. Chai, S. Doney, H. Ducklow, P. Falkowski, R. A. Feely, M. Friedrichs, M. Landry, J. K. Moore, D. Nelson, T. Richardson, B. Salihoglu, M. Schartau, and J. D. Wiggert. 2006. Functional Group Modeling: Progress, Challenges and Prospects. Deep-Sea Research II 53(5-7): 459-512.

  9. Laws, E. A. 2006. Case Study: Cholera. Oceanography 19(2): 53-55.

  10. Hou, A., Laws, E. A., Gambrell, R. P., Bae, H-S., Tan, M., DeLaune, R. D., Li, Y., and Roberts, H. 2006. Pathogen Indicator Microbes and Heavy Metals in Lake Pontchartrain Following Hurricane Katrina. Environmental Science and Technology 40: 5904-5910.

  11. Laws, E. A., E. Sakshaug, M. Babin, Y. Dandonneau, P. Falkowski, R. Geider, L. Legendre, A. Morel, M. Sondergaard, M. Takahashi, and P. leB Williams. 2002. Photosynthesis and primary productivity in marine ecosystems: Practical aspects and application of techniques. JGOFS Report No. 36. Bergen, Norway, 93 pp.

  12. Laws, E. A., B. N. Popp, N. Cassar, and J. Tanimoto. 2002. 13C discrimination patterns in oceanic phytoplankton: The likely influence of CCMs and the implications for palaeoreconstructions. Functional Plant Biology 29: 1-11.

  13. Cassar, N., E. A. Laws, B. N. Popp, and R. R. Bidigare. 2002. Sources of inorganic carbon for photosynthesis in marine diatoms. Limnology and Oceanography 47: 1192-1197.

  14. Miller, A. J., M. A. Alexander, G. J. Boer, F. Chai, K. Denman, D. J. Erickson, R. Frouin, A. J. Gabric, E. A. Laws, M. R. Lewis, Z. Liu, R. Murtugudde, S. Nakamoto, D. J. Neilson, J. R. Norris, J. C. Ohlmann, R. I. Perry, N. Schneider, K. M. Shell, and A. Timmermann, 2003. Potential feedbacks between Pacific Ocean ecosystems and interdecadal climate variations. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 84, 617-633.

  15. Laws, E. A. 2003. Partitioning of microbial biomass in pelagic aquatic communities: Maximum resiliency as a food web organizing construct. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 32: 1-10.

  16. Laws, E. A. and L. Ferentinos. 2003. Human impacts on the fluxes of nutrients and sediment in Waimanalo Stream, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. Pacific Science 57(2) (in press).

  17. Laws, E. A. 2003. Mesozooplankton grazing and primary production: An alternative assessment. Limnology and Oceanography 48: 1357-1359.

  18. Selph, K. E., M. R. Landry, and E. A. Laws. 2003. Heterotrophic nannoflagellate enhancement of bacterial growth through nutrient remineralization in chemostat culture. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 32: 23-37

  19. Falkowski, P. G., E. A. Laws, R. T. Barber, and J. Murray. 2003. Phytoplankton and their role in primary, new, and export production. pp 99-121 in M. J.. R. Fasham (Ed.), Ocean Biogeochemistry: The Role of the Ocean Carbon Cycle in Global Change, Springer, Berlin.

  20. Laws, E.A. 2000. Aquatic Pollution: An Introductory Text. 3rd edition. Wiley-Interscience. New York. 639


"...strategies we develop for managing our coastal resources in a sustainable manner can provide a model for the intelligent stewardship of similar resources throughout the world."

Dean Ed Laws
LSU's School of the Coast & Environment

 

 
 
 

 

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Baton Rouge, LA 70803
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