Earth Scan Laboratory

2015:

• Pino, Jordan, "Impacts of the Three-Dimensional Oceanic Thermal Structure and Translation Speed on Tropical Cyclogenesis and Intensity Fluctuations during the 2005 North Atlantic Hurricane Season." M.S. Thesis, Louisiana State University (December 2015).

2014:

• Walker, Nan, Robert Leben, Chet Pilley, Michael Shannon , Derrick Herndon, Iam-Fei Pun, I.I. Lin, and Chelle Gentemann. "Slow translation speed causes rapid collapse of northeast Pacific Hurricane Kenneth over cold core eddy." Geophysical Research Letters (October 2014): 7595–7601. | Get the PDF

• Chaichitehrani, Nazanin, Eurico D'Sa, Dong Ko, Nan Walker, Christopher Osburn, and Robert Chen. "Colored Dissolved Organic Matter Dynamics in the Northern Gulf of Mexico from Ocean Color and Numerical Model Results." Journal of Coastal Research (July 2014): 800 – 814. Abstract

• Kolker, Alexander, Chunyan Li, Nan Walker, Chet Pilley, Alexander Ameen, Georgia Boxer, Cyndhia Ramatchandrian, Mohammad Ullah, and Kelly Williams. "The impacts of the great Mississippi/Atchafalaya River flood on the oceanography of the Atchafalaya Shelf." Continental Shelf Research (April 2014): 17–33. Abstract | Get the PDF

2013:

• Muller-Karger, Frank, Mitchell Roffer, Nan Walker, Matt Oliver, Oscar Schofield, Mark Abbott, Hans Graber, Robert Leben, and Gustavo Goni. "Satellite Remote Sensing in Support of an Integrated Ocean Observing System." IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine (December 2013): 8-18. Abstract | Get the PDF

2012:

• Bianchi, Thomas, Fenix Garcia-Tigregros, Shari Yvon-Lewis, Michael Shields, Heather Mills, David Butman, Christopher Osburn, Peter Raymond, G. Shank, Steve DiMarco, Nan Walker, Brandi Reese, Ruth Mullins-Perry, Antonietta Quigg, George Aiken, and Ethan Grossman. "Enhanced transfer of terrestrially derived carbon to the atmosphere in a flooding event." Geophysical Research Letters (November 2012). Abstract

• Walker, Nan, Chet Pilley, Eurico D'Sa, Robert Leben, Patrice Coholan, Peter Brickley, and Hans Graber. "Loop Current eddy merger exposed by satellites during Gulf of Mexico oil spill." SPIE (September 2012). Abstract | Get the PDF

2011:

• Raghunathan, Vandana, "Hurricane Induced Land and Vegetation Changes in the Breton Sound Estuary and Chandeleur Islands using LANDSAT 5 TM." M.S. Thesis, Louisiana State University (December 2011).

• Whitehead, Andrew, Benjamin Dubansky, Charlotte Bodinier, Tzintzuni Garcia, Scott Miles, Chet Pilley, Vandana Raghunathan, Jennifer Roach, Nan Walker, Ronald Walter, Charles Rice, and Fernando Galvez. "Science Applications in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Special Feature: Genomic and physiological footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on resident marsh fishes." PNAS (September 2011). Abstract | Get the PDF

• Zhao, Haihong, Qin Chen, Nan Walker, Quanan Zhang, and Hugh MacIntyre. "Estimating suspended sediment concentrations in a shallow estuary from MODIS red-channel reflectance." International Journal of Remote Sensing (July 2011): 1-19. Abstract

• Schiller, Rafael, Villy Kourafalou, P. Hogan, and R. Twilley. "The dynamics of the Mississippi River plume: Impact of topography, wind and offshore forcing on the fate of plume waters." Journal of Geophysical Research (June 2011). Abstract | Get the PDF

• Dash, Padmanava, "Quantitative Mapping of Cyanobacterial Blooms using Oceansat-1 OCM Satellite Data." PhD Dissertation, Louisiana State University (May 2011). Abstract

• Dash, Padmanava, Nan Walker, Deepak Mishra, Chuanmin Hu, James Pinckney, and Eurico D'Sa. "Estimation of cyanobacterial pigments in a freshwater lake using OCM satellite data." Remote Sensing of Environment (January 2011). Abstract | Get the PDF

• Walker, Nan, Chet Pilley, Vandana Raghunathan, Eurico D'Sa, Robert Leben, Nicholas Hoffman, Peter Brickley, Patrice Coholan, Neha Sharma, Hans Graber, and Raymond Turner. "Impacts of Loop Current Frontal Cyclonic Eddies and Wind Forcing on the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill." Geophysical Monograph Series (January 2011): 103-116. Abstract | Get the PDF

2010:

• Zhang, Quanan, D. Quadir, Nan Walker, and Chunyan Li. "Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico and spiral vortex." Acta Oceanologica Sinica (April 2010): 1-2. Abstract | Get the PDF

• DiMarco, Steve, Piers Chapman, Nan Walker, and Robert Hetland. "Does local topography control hypoxia on the eastern Texas-Louisiana shelf ." Journal of Marine Systems (February 2010): 25-35. Abstract

• Garcia, Ana, Sibel Bargu, Padmanava Dash, Nancy Rabalais, Malinda Sutor, Wendy Morrison, and Nan Walker. "Evaluating the potential risk of microcystins to blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) fisheries and human health in a eutrophic estuary." Harmful Algae (February 2010): 134-143. Abstract | Get the PDF

2009:

• Walker, Nan, Robert Leben, Steven Anderson, Jim Feeney, Patrice Coholan, and Neha Sharma. "Loop Current Frontal Eddies Based on Satellite Remote-Sensing and Drifter Data." U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Minerals Mgmt. Service (December 2009).

• Haag, Alaric, Nan Walker, Chet Pilley, Jessica Comeaux, John Calvasina, and Robert Firth. "Satellite Surveillance of the Gulf and Beyond: An Overview of the LSU Earth Scan Laboratory's Ocean Observing Capabilities ." Conference Papers - Oceans (Annual Meeting 2009): MTS/IEEE Conference (October 2009). Abstract

• Walker, Nan, Robert Leben, Steven Anderson, Alaric Haag, and Chet Pilley. "High Frequency Satellite Surveillance of Gulf of Mexico Loop Current Frontal Eddy Cyclones." MTS/IEEE Conference Papers -- Oceans (Annual Meeting 2009) (October 2009). Abstract

• Walker, Nan, Robert Leben, Steven Anderson, Alaric Haag, Chet Pilley, and Mitsuko Korobkin. "Exploration of Real-time Satellite Measurements to Advance Hurricane Intensity Prediction in the Northern Gulf of Mexico." MTS/IEEE Conference Papers -- Oceans (Annual Meeting 2009) (October 2009). Abstract | Get the PDF

• Pinckney, James, James Wee, Aixin Hou, and Nan Walker. "Phytoplankton community structure responses to urban effluent inputs following Hurricane Katrina and Rita." Marine Ecology Progress Series (July 2009). Abstract

• White, J., R. Fulweiler, Chunyan Li, Sibel Bargu, Nan Walker, R. Twilley, and Rebecca Green. "Mississippi River Flood 2008: Observations of a Large Freshwater Diversion on Physical, Chemical, and Biological Characteristics of a Shallow Estuarine Lake." Environmental Science & Technology (June 2009). Abstract

2008:

• Li, Chunyan, Nan Walker, Aixin Hou, Ioannis Georgiou, Harry Roberts, Ed Laws, J. McCorquodale, Eddie Weeks, Xiaofeng Li, and Jessica Comeaux. "Circular plumes in Lake Pontchartrain estuary under wind straining." Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (July 2008). Abstract

• Cobb, Mark, "Modeling the Circulation of the Atchafalaya Bay System during Winter Cold Front Events. Part 2: River Plume Dynamics During Cold Fronts." Journal of Coastal Research (July 2008). Abstract

• Kiage, Lawrence, and Nan Walker. "Using NDVI from MODIS to Monitor Duckweed Bloom in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela." Water Resources Management (July 2008). Abstract

• Cobb, Mark, Timothy Keen, and Nan Walker. "Modeling the Circulation of the Atchafalaya Bay System during Winter Cold Front Events. Part 1: Model Description and Validation." Journal of Coastal Research (July 2008). Abstract

• Bellotte, Renee, and Nan Walker. "Sediment transport responses to cold front passage on a fluvially-dominated shallow water shelf: Atchafalaya Bay Region, Louisiana, U.S.A.." Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (January 2008).

2007:

• Kiage, Lawrence, K. Liu, Nan Walker, Ed Laws, and Oscar Huh (1935-2013). "Recent land-cover/use change associated with land degredation in the Lake Baringo catchment, Kenya, East Africa: evidence from Landsat TM and ETM+." International Journal of Remote Sensing (September 2007). Abstract

• Walker, Nan, "Book Review of "Remote Sensing of the Marine Environment: Manual of Remote Sensing 3rd Edition." Water Resources Management (January 2007).

2006:

• Walker, Nan, and Nancy Rabalais. "Relationships among satellite chlorophyll a, river inputs and hypoxia on the Louisiana continental shelf, Gulf of Mexico." Estuaries and Coasts (December 2006). Abstract

• Green, Rebecca, Thomas Bianchi, Michael Dagg, and Nan Walker. "An organic carbon budget for the Mississippi River Turbidity Plume and Plume Contributions to Air-sea CO2 Fluxes and Bottom Water Hypoxia." Estuaries and Coasts (August 2006). Abstract

• Walker, Nan, Alaric Haag, Shreekanth Balasubramanian, Robert Leben, Ivor Heerden, Paul Kemp, and Hassan Mashriqui. "Hurricane Prediction: A Century of Advances." Oceanography (July 2006): 337-338. Abstract

• Blanchard, Brian, and Shih-Ang Hsu. "On the radial variation of the tangential wind speed outside the radius of maximum wind during Hurricane Wilma (2005)." NWA Electronic Journal of Operational Meteorology (January 2006).

• Hsu, Shih-Ang, DeWitt Braud, and Brian Blanchard. "Rapid Estimation of Maximum Storm Surges Induced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005." NWA Electronic Journal of Operational Meteorology (January 2006). Abstract

2005:

• Stone, G., Nan Walker, Shih-Ang Hsu, Adele Babin, B. Liu, Barry Keim, W. Teague, D. Mitchell, and Robert Leben. "Hurricane Ivan's Impact along the northern Gulf of Mexico." EOS Transactions (November 2005). Abstract

• Walker, Nan, William Wiseman Jr., Lawrence Rouse, and Adele Babin. "Effects of river discharge, wind stress, and slope eddies on circulation of the Mississippi river plume, Louisiana." Journal of Coastal Research (October 2005): 1228-1244. Abstract

• Kiage, Lawrence, Nan Walker, Shreekanth Balasubramanian, Adele Babin, J. Barras, and . "Applications of Radarsat-1 synthetic aperture radar imagery to assess hurricane related flooding of coastal Louisiana." International Journal of Remote Sensing (October 2005). Abstract

• Hsu, Shih-Ang, and Adele Babin. "Estimating the radius maximum winds via satellite during Hurricane Lili (2002) over the Gulf of Mexico." NWA Electronic Journal of Operational Meteorology (February 2005). Abstract

• Walker, Nan, "Wind- and Eddy-Related Shelf/Slope Circulation Processes and Coastal Upwelling in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico." Geophysical Monograph Series (January 2005). Abstract

• Roberts, Harry, A. Sheremet, and Nan Walker. "Effects of cold fronts on bayhead delta development: Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana." Morphodynamics and Sedimentary Evolution of Estuaries (January 2005).

• Walker, Nan, "Hurricane-forced Upwelling and Chlorophyll a Enhancement within Cold-core Cyclones in the Gulf of Mexico." Geophysical Research Letters (January 2005). Abstract

2004:

• Babin, Adele, "Characteristics of Hurricane Lili's intensity changes.." M.S. Thesis, Louisiana State University (December 2004). Abstract

• Hsu, Shih-Ang, "A wind-wave interaction explanation for Jelesniankski's open-ocean storm surge estimation using Hurricane Georges' (1998) measurements." National Weather Digest (January 2004): 25-31. Abstract

2003:

• Walker, Nan, Adele Babin, DeWitt Braud, Jaye Cable, Alaric Haag, Oscar Huh (1935-2013), Kota Prasad, Greg Snedden, and David Wilensky. "A Role for Remote Sensing in Managing Mississippi River Diversions." Backscatter (December 2003).

• Sheremet, A., and G. Stone. "Observations of wave dissipation over muddy sea beds." Journal of Geophysical Research (November 2003). Abstract

• Walker, Nan, Soe Myint, Adele Babin, and Alaric Haag. "Advances in satellite radiometry for the surveillance of surface temperatures, ocean eddies and upwelling processes in the Gulf of Mexico using GOES-8 measurements during summer." Geophysical Research Letters (August 2003). Abstract

2002:

• Walker, Nan, and Soe Myint. "Quantification of surface suspended sediments along a river dominated coast with NOAA AVHRR and SeaWiFS measurements: Louisiana, USA." International Journal of Remote Sensing (January 2002): 3229-3249. Abstract

• Hsu, Shih-Ang, "Coastal Meteorology ." Journal of Coastal Research (January 2002): 155-173. Abstract

2001:

• Huh (1935-2013), Oscar, Nan Walker, and Christopher Moeller. "Sedimentation along the eastern Chenier Plain Coast: down drift impact of a delta complex shift." Journal of Coastal Research (December 2001). Abstract

• Walker, Nan, "Tropical Storm and Hurricane Wind Effects on Water Level, Salinity, and Sediment Transport in the River-Influenced Atchafalaya-Vermillion Bay System, Louisiana, USA." Estuaries (August 2001): 498-508. Abstract

2000:

• Walker, Nan, and Adele Babin. "Impacts of Winter Storms on Circulation and Sediment Transport: Atchafalaya-Vermilion Bay region, Louisiana." Journal of Coastal Research (October 2000): 996-1010.

• Hsu, Shih-Ang, Brian Blanchard, and Melvin Martin Jr.. "An evaluation of the USACE's deepwater wave prediction techniques under hurricane conditions during Georges in 1998." Journal of Coastal Research (August 2000): 823-829. Abstract

• Martin Jr., Melvin, "The Relationship Between Water Vapor and Hurricane Track Using the GOES-8 Satellite." PhD Dissertation, Louisiana State University (January 2000).

1998:

• Seymour, M., "An experiment in the use of geosynchronous satellite data for cloud detection and summer convective rainfall estimation." M.S. Thesis, Louisiana State University (January 1998). Abstract

• Murray, Stephen, "An observational study of the Mississippi-Atchafalaya coastal plume: Final Report, OCS Study MMS 98-0040." U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Minerals Mgmt. Service (January 1998). Abstract

1997:

• Walker, Nan, G. Hitchcock, William Wiseman Jr., W. Boicourt, A. Mariano, T. Nelsen, and E. Ryan. "Property Fields in an effluent plume of the Mississippi River." Journal of Marine Systems (January 1997): 109-126. Abstract

1996:

• Walker, Nan, Oscar Huh (1935-2013), Lawrence Rouse, and Stephen Murray. "Evolution and structure of a coastal squirt off the Mississippi River delta: Northern Gulf of Mexico." Journal of Geophysical Research (September 1996). Abstract

• Huh (1935-2013), Oscar, Lawrence Rouse, Harry Roberts, Christopher Moeller, J. McCorquodale, and Paul Wilson. "Remote sensing of turbid coastal and estuarine waters: A method of multispectral water-type analysis." Journal of Coastal Research (September 1996): 984-995. Abstract

• Ransibrahmanakul, V., "Variability of eddy heat fluxes over the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico." PhD Dissertation, Louisiana State University (January 1996). Abstract

• Walker, Nan, "Satellite assessment of Mississippi River plume variability: causes and predictability." Remote Sensing of Environment (January 1996): 21-35. Abstract

• Huh (1935-2013), Oscar, M. Shafik, John Malone, M. Abdel-Rahman, M. El Bahy, and M. Bavia. "Geographic Information Systems and the Distribution of Schistosoma mansoni in the Nile Delta." Parasitology Today (January 1996): 119-122. Abstract

1995:

• Schumann, Scott, G.A. Johnson, J. Moser, Nan Walker, and Shih-Ang Hsu. "An overview of a strong winter low in the Gulf of Mexico, March 12-13, 1993." National Weather Digest (October 1995). Abstract

• Roberts, Harry, and Paul Wilson. "Density cascading off-shelf sediment transport, evidence and implication, Bahama Banks." Journal of Sedimentary Research (January 1995): 45-56. Abstract

1994:

• Walker, Nan, Giulietta Fargion, Lawrence Rouse, and Douglas Biggs. "The great flood of summer 1993: Mississippi River discharge studied." EOS Transactions (September 1994): 409-415. Abstract

• Huh (1935-2013), Oscar, John Malone, Dennis Fehler, Paul Wilson, David Wilensky, Robert Holmes, and Ali Elmagdoub. "Temperature data from satellite imagery and the distribution of Schistosomiasis in Egypt." American J. Trop. Med. Hyg (January 1994): 714-722. Abstract

1993:

• Walker, Nan, Oscar Huh (1935-2013), and Lawrence Rouse. "Warm-core eddy discovered in the Gulf of Mexico." EOS Transactions (July 1993): 337-338. Abstract

1990:

• Huh (1935-2013), Oscar, and Kenneth Schaudt. "Satellite imagery tracks currents in Gulf of Mexico." Oil and Gas Journal (May 1990): 70-76. Abstract

• Shannon, L., J. Agenbag, Nan Walker, and J.R. Lutjeharms. "A major peturbation in the Agulhas retroflection area in 1986." Deep Sea Research (January 1990): 493-512. Abstract

1987:

• Huh (1935-2013), Oscar, A. Ali, and D. Quadir. "Agricultural, hydrological, and oceanographic studies in Bangladesh with NOAA AVHRR data." International Journal of Remote Sensing (January 1987): 917-925. Abstract

• Walker, Nan, Lawrence Rouse, and Oscar Huh (1935-2013). "Response of subtropical shallow-water environments to cold-air outbreak events: Satellite radiometry and heath flux modeling." Continental Shelf Research (January 1987): 735-757. Abstract

• Huh (1935-2013), Oscar, and T. Shim. "Satellite observations of surface temperatures and flow patterns, Sea of Japan and East China Sea, late March 1979." Remote Sensing of Environment (January 1987): 379-393. Abstract

1986:

• Walker, Nan, "Satellite observations of the Agulhas Current and episodic upwelling south of Africa." Deep Sea Research (January 1986): 1083-1106. Abstract

1984:

• Huh (1935-2013), Oscar, Lawrence Rouse, and Nan Walker. "Cold-air outbreaks over the northwest Florida continental shelf: heat flux processes and hydrographic changes." Journal of Geophysical Research (January 1984): 717-726. Abstract

• Huh (1935-2013), Oscar, "Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery of storm-induced seas around the Goto Islands, Japan." Ocean Hydrodynamics of the Japan and East China Seas: Amsterdam, Elsevier (January 1984): 347-360. Abstract

1982:

• Huh (1935-2013), Oscar, "Spring-season flow of the Tsushima Current and its separation from the Kuroshio: satellite evidence." Journal of Geophysical Research (November 1982): 9687-9693. Abstract

• Roberts, Harry, Lawrence Rouse, Nan Walker, and J. Hudson. "Cold water stress in Florida and Bay and northern Bahamas: A product of winter cold-air outbreaks." Journal of Sedimentary Petrology (March 1982): 145-155. Abstract

• Walker, Nan, Harry Roberts, Lawrence Rouse, and Oscar Huh (1935-2013). "Thermal history of reef-associated environments during a record cold-air outbreak event." Coral Reefs (January 1982): 83-87. Abstract

1981:

• Huh (1935-2013), Oscar, Lawrence Rouse, and William Wiseman Jr.. "Winter cycle of sea surface thermal patterns, northeastern Gulf of Mexico. ." Journal of Geophysical Research (September 1981): 4523-4529. Abstract

• Huh (1935-2013), Oscar, Lawrence Rouse, and William Wiseman Jr.. "Intrusion of Loop Current water onto the continental shelf, northeastern Gulf of Mexico." Remote Sensing of Environment (May 1981): 4186-4192. Abstract

• Huh (1935-2013), Oscar, and D. DiRosa. "Analysis and interpretation of TIROS-N AVHRR infrared imagery, western Gulf of Mexico." Remote Sensing of Environment (January 1981): 371-383. Abstract

1976:

• Huh (1935-2013), Oscar, "Detection of oceanic thermal fronts off Korea with the Defense Meteorological Satellites." Remote Sensing of Environment (January 1976): 191-213. Abstract