Angelina Freeman
Director, Mississippi River Delta Science & Engineering Projects
Areas of expertise: Land, Water & Wildlife Program, rivers and deltas
Work
Angelina Freeman is
the Science & Engineering Projects Director for the Mississippi River
Delta Restoration Project at Environmental Defense Fund. A wide variety of
natural and anthropogenic processes contribute to Louisiana’s high coastal land
loss rates.
Angelina’s work
includes securing restoration of the natural functioning of the Lower
Mississippi River system for wetland restoration and hurricane protection.
Increased effort is being undertaken to understand the factors affecting land
loss, and how to offset this process.
Angelina has
experience in coastal geology and geophysics, coastal processes, remote sensing
and GIS applications, image and spatial analysis, numerical modeling of
sediment transport, and coastal hydrodynamics.
Background
Education:
- Ph.D. in Oceanography and Coastal Sciences,
Louisiana State University
- M.S. in Acoustics, Pennsylvania State University
- B.S. in Physics, Eckerd College
Angelina is a
member of the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America,
and the Acoustical Society of America.
Publications
- D'Sa, E.J., E. Overton and A.M. Freeman, 2010. On
the use of excitation-emission matric spectroscopy (EEMs) to detect
dissolved/dispersed oil in the nearshore and offshore waters of the
Louisiana coast. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco,
CA.
- Freeman, A.M., F. Jose, H.H. Roberts and G.W. Stone,
2010a. Hurricane-induced sediment transport modeling in a shallow coastal
lake: south central Louisiana. Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation,
Portland, OR.
- Freeman, A.M., F. Jose, H.H. Roberts and G.W. Stone,
2010b. Modeling of hurricane impacts on a coastal lake bottom: south
central Louisiana. American Geophysical Union Meetings of the Americas,
Foz do Iguazu, Brazil.
- Freeman, A.M., E.C. Lamon Iii and C.A. Stow, 2009.
Nutrient criteria for lakes, ponds, and reservoirs: A Bayesian TREED model
approach. Journal of Ecological Modelling, 220: 630-639.
- Freeman, A.M., H.H. Roberts, F. Jose and G.W. Stone,
2010c. Modeling of Hurricane Impacts on a Coastal Lake Bottom: South
Central Louisiana. State of the Coast, Baton Rouge, LA.
- Freeman, A.M. and C. Taylor, 2010. Coastal Louisiana
Restoration: From Plan to Action. American Shore & Beach Preservation
Association National Coastal Conference: Integrating Coastal Science and
Policy, St. Pete Beach, FL.
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