Dr. Georgiou to join Water Institute

BATON ROUGE, La. – Uprooted from his home in Cyprus during the civil war at age three, Ioannis Georgiou experienced first-hand the power of community, building and creating solutions. His creative vision for what is possible is rooted in those experiences. He completed a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at LSU, and a doctoral from UNO in hydrodynamics. On Aug. 26, Georgiou will join the Water Institute of the Gulf as director of Coastal and Deltaic Systems Modeling. Previously, Georgiou has been a professor of Earth Sciences at UNO since 2007, and served as director of the Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences since 2013. His arrival at the Institute will strengthen the already close partnership between the UNO and the Institute. In Louisiana, Georgiou’s work includes the Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program, which aims to understand regional sediment trends through intensive collection and analysis of hundreds of sediment samples along the coast. Another project involves working with LSU collaborators, through Department of Interior funding, to unravel the controls and triggering mechanisms of underwater slides in the modern delta, while another project works to understand the geomorphic and economic benefits of using offshore sands for barrier island restoration projects. (Source: Water Institute of the Gulf 08/19/19)