Coastal Studies Institute maintains a field support facility staffed by experienced, professional research associates. This seven-man team of support personnel has a combined sixty-nine years of experience in conducting the Institute's research studies. Their professional training, skills, and experience span a wide range of expertise, i.e., electronic and mechanical engineering and fabrication, seamanship, instrument deployment and recovery techniques, data collection and diving. Unique to this team is that although each member is specialized in at least one of these disciplines, each member has a practical working ability in all of them.

The Earth Scan Laboratory , founded in June 1988 with funds from the Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund, this facility is now a satellite data receiving station for four image data streams: NOAA AVHRR, GOES-East, Orbview-2 SeaWiFS, and Terra/Aqua MODIS. The MODIS capability is the newest, funded by a million dollar grant from the Louisiana Technology Innovation Fund. This state-of-the-art laboratory serves the State and Nation with real-time imagery of the atmosphere, oceans and land masses and is used for emergency response, for environment research and for teaching/training of students.

The objective of WAVCIS (Wave-Current Information System) is to provide wave information (sea state) including wave height, period, direction of propagation, water level, surge, near surface current speed and direction and meteorological conditions on a real time basis around the entire Louisiana coast.

The Field Support Group (FSG) is located at LSU in the CSI Field Support Building. This is a dedicated 8000 sq. ft. building housing separate office space for each team member, maintainence and calibration laboratories, fabrication and machine shops, and equipment storage areas. The design, fabrication, and callibration of the instrument systems described in this proposal will be fabricated and tested within this facility. Click here to learn more about specific FSG capabilities relative to this task.

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