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.