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Dr. Beth Stauffer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology, the SLEMCO/BORSF Endowed Professor in General Studies, and a Distinguished Professor at UL ɫ��AV. Dr. Stauffer's research has generated over $27 million in extramural funding and she has been recognized with awards at UL ɫ��AV for her research productivity and mentoring of graduate students. She was previously an Early Career Research Fellow with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Gulf Research Program and Member-at-Large on the Association for the Sciences of Limnology & Oceanography (ASLO) Board. Dr. Stauffer is committed to removing barriers to equity in her lab, institution, and community. She worked with LUMCON leadership to strengthen their sexual harassment policy, hosted a Minorities in Aquaculture intern, served on the Aspire IChange Team to help “advance the diversity and inclusion of STEM faculty” at UL ɫ��AV, and was on the Department of Biology ​Inclusion and Diversity Committee, among many other activities.

Ph.D. in Marine Environmental Biology, 2011 
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

B.S. in Marine Science & Biology, 2000
University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

• Phytoplankton/Protistan Ecology
• Coastal Water Quality Issues

• Sweet, J*, S Casas, J La Peyre, M Genung, BA Stauffer. Effects of the cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa on eastern oyster feeding. Ecosphere 16 (9): e70408. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70408 
• Jaegge, AC*, B Lavergne**, BA Stauffer. Widespread, Low Concentration Microcystin Detection in a Subtropical Louisiana Estuary. Marine Pollution Bulletin 207: 116843. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116843
• Raabe, JM*, G Kurtay*, A Fontenot, S Greene, AJ Martignette, EC Milbrandt, BJ Roberts, BA Stauffer. 2024. Operation and integration of a commercially available nitrate sensor in Gulf of Mexico estuarine monitoring programs. Environmental Technology & Innovation, 35: 103676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eti.2024.103676
• Sweet, J*, S Bargu, M Parsons, MG Pathare*, B Roberts, T Sonniat, W Morrison, BA Stauffer. Trends in phytoplankton dynamics in Louisiana estuaries: building a baseline to understand current and future change. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 175: 113344, part of Virtual Special Issue: Plankton in the Gulf of Mexico: Ecological Considerations and the Macondo Oil Spill
• Patrick, CJ, JS Kominoski, WH McDowell, B Branoff, D Lagomasino, M Leon, E Hensel, MJS Hensel, BA Strickland, TM Aide, A Armitage, M Campos-Cerqueira, VM Congdon, TA Crowl, DJ Devlin, S Douglas, BE Erisman, RA Feagin, SJ Geist, NS Hall, AK Hardison, MR Heithaus, JA Hogan, JD Hogan, S Kinard, JJ Kiszka, T-C Lin, K Lu, CJ Madden, PA Montagna, CS O'Connell, CE Proffitt, BK Reese, JW Reustle, KL Robinson, SA Rush, RO Santos, A Schnetzer, DL Smee, RS Smith, G Starr, BA Stauffer, LM Walker, CA Weaver, MS Wetz, ER Whitman, SS Wilson, J Xue, X Zou. A universal pattern of trade-offs between ecosystem resistance and resilience to tropical cyclones. Science Advances, 8:eabl9155

• SLEMCO/LEQSF Regents Endowed Professor in Science II, 2020- present
• Outstanding Masters Mentoring Award, UL ɫ��AV Graduate School, 2021
• Nominated for Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists, 2019, 2020
• Early Career Research Fellowship, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Gulf Research Program, 2018-2020
• Louisiana Discovery, Innovation, and Application Program (LaDIA) Fellow, Louisiana Sea Grant College Program, 2016-2017
• Rising Star Award, UL ɫ��AV Research Office, Ray P. Authement College of Sciences, 2017
• Certificate of Achievement in Sponsored Research, UL ɫ��AV, 2016
• UL ɫ��AV Summer Faculty Research Award, 2016
• AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship, 2013
• Invited Participant - Ecological Dissertations in the Aquatic Sciences (EcoDAS X) Symposium, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2012
• Invited participant - Time-series Analysis in Marine Science and Applications for Industry Conference, Logonna-Daoulas, France, 2012
• Invited Participant - 2nd EU-U.S. Developing a New International Architecture for Maritime Policy Conference, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2012
• Lamont-Doherty Postdoctoral Fellowship, LDEO, 2012-2014
• Anita Brown Wilson Scholarship for Environmental Studies, USC, 2011
• IEEE Distinguished Student Humanitarian Prize (2nd Place), Presidents’ Change the World Competition, 2010
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Introduction to Microbiology, USC, 2010
• Invited Participant - Pan-American Sensors for Environmental Observatories (PASEO), an NSF Pan-American Advances Studies Institute (PASI), Argentina, 2009
• College Doctoral Fellowship, USC, 2006
• General University Honors, University of Miami, 2000