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{ecology of louisiana’s gulf coast oil & gas infrastructure}
{framework} Louisiana’s oil and gas infrastructure is a complex system. As a physical infrastructure it consists of wells, pipes, off-shore oil rigs, refining stations, submerged barges, and other technologies. It is also deeply embedded in natural ecosystems including freshwater wetlands, estuaries, and ocean environments. The built infrastructure has had a significant and often devastating impact […]
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Mississippi River Delta Formations
The Mississippi River Delta is the area of land built up by alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico. This process has led to the extension of the Louisiana coastline into the Gulf 15-50 miles and the creation of vast coastal wetlands and salt marsh. The representation of […]
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Fluctuating Infrastructure
FLUCTUATING INFASTRUCUTRE INTRO The water flow of the Mississippi has many factors that influence where it turns, bends, rises, falls, increases in speed, or even decreases in speed at some points. These factors are known as levees, dams, spur dikes, and locks. There are 29 locations where these locks/dams are located along the Mississippi, 27 […]
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Algae Cultivation
Framework As the world’s energy demand continues to rise, there exists a concurrent increase in greenhouse gas emissions stemming from fossil fuels consumption. As a result a need for renewable energy sources is rapidly expanding. Biofuels represent a large segment for potential energy, but as ethanol has demonstrated, finding an energy source that doesn’t compete with […]
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Treatment Wetlands
Treatment wetlands are either constructed or naturally occurring wetlands that are used in the process of treating stormwater runoff and/or effluent. The representation of a treatment wetland requires elucidating the infrastructural system and active systems from the evolving and dynamic biological systems. The two systems (infrastructural and biological) can be categorized as static and dynamic […]
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LA 4101 . Illustrating Ecologies
The advanced research seminar, LA 4101 . Illustrating Ecologies, will be using LAB to document their work throughout the semester. This will involve research into a variety of ecological systems, as defined by the students, and digital methods to represent these complex systems. The course syllabus and research outline can be found at the reactscape […]