Field of Focus
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Science
Area of Expertise
Nutrient Chemistry
Education
  • Ph.D. Oceanography & Coastal Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A., 2003
  • M.S. Oceanography & Coastal Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A., 1998
  • B.S. Environmental & Forest Biology, SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A., 1993

Robert Lane is a Research Associate at the Coastal Ecology Institute. His research interests focus on the effects of freshwater diversions on estuarine nutrient, sediment and vegetative dynamics, he use of treated municipal effluent as a restoration resource, and wetlands for stormwater runoff and municipal effluent treatment.

GoMRI-funded projects:

- Aquatic Primary Productivity and Spatial/Temporal Water Quality Variations of the Breton Sound Estuary and Impacts of Oil Pollution

- Impact of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on the Louisiana Coastal Environments