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ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ faculty, staff, students and alumni represented the University well throughout the three-day celebration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carissa Thiel was awarded third place for her presentation \u201cEcological characteristics and soil processes in terrestrial forest habitats on coastal ridges.\u201d Thiel\u2019s work within the collaborative Coastal Ridge Project through a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/policy-issues\/financial-markets-financial-institutions-and-fiscal-service\/restore-act\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">RESTORE Act<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> grant, mentored by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/biology\/faculty\/dr-jonathan-willis\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Jonathan Willis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ assistant professor of biological sciences, focused on the terrestrial forested communities along coastal ridges at the points of highest elevation, the tree species and preliminary results of soil analysis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michelle Lignieres won fifth place for her presentation, \u201cUsing small-bodied fish assemblage to compare constructed terraces and original marsh for a restoration project within Terrebonne Parish.\u201d For Lignieres\u2019 research, mentored by\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/biology\/faculty\/dr-gary-lafleur\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Gary J. LaFleur, Jr<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ director of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/center-bayou-studies\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Center for Bayou Studies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and professor of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/honors\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">honors studies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, she monitors different fauna species within a restored marsh to determine if man-made terraces can simulate the natural marsh in providing sustainable habitats and resources for the species that occur in the natural marsh. This presentation focused mainly on the data she collected from small-bodied fish, but she also monitors crustaceans, large-bodied fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cÐÓ°É´«Ã½ alumni are making ripples in the coastal world, contributing greatly to this very important quadrant of state government and economy,\u201d said Dr. Gary J. LaFleur, Jr.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The State of the Coast conference is the largest statewide conference of its kind, providing an interdisciplinary forum to exchange timely and relevant information on the dynamic conditions of Louisiana\u2019s coastal communities, environment and economy. The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana produces this forum, the need for which grows with every acre of land lost to the Gulf of Mexico, along with its partners: the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/coastal.la.gov\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thewaterinstitute.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Water Institute<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laseagrant.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Louisiana Sea Grant<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SOC2023 consisted of three days of presentations by leading experts in concurrent sessions, keynote talks, poster sessions and networking opportunities. SOC2023 was attended by more than 1,200 scientists, landowners, land managers, federal and state agency personnel, local officials, industry and business leaders, resource users, students, and residents of coastal communities. SOC2023 reflected the vision for the conference and for coastal Louisiana\u2019s future: Together Again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The RESTORE Act dedicates 80% of all administrative and civil penalties related to the Deepwater Horizon spill to a Gulf Coast Restoration Trust Fund and outlines a structure by which the funds can be utilized to restore and protect the natural resources, ecosystems, fisheries, marine and wildlife habitats, beaches, coastal wetlands, and economy of the Gulf Coast region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/biology\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ Department of Biological Sciences<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">offers a wide variety of academic options that prepares students for the workforce or professional school. Students have opportunities ranging from exploring the coastal waterways and swamps of Louisiana in a pirogue while learning how to use modern scientific equipment to explore the molecular mechanisms of cell biology. No matter what students\u2019 career aspirations are, they will find a challenging but comfortable home in ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ biology within 1 of the 11 concentration areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thursday, June 29, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>MEDIA CONTACT: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jerad David, Director of Communications,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">985.448.4303<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">jerad.david@nicholls.edu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIBODAUX, La. \u2013 ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ marine and environmental biology graduate students Carissa Thiel and Michelle Lignieres received awards at the 2023 State of the Coast Conference. 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