Civil Engineering Assistant Professor Awarded Early-Career Research Fellow by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

Congratulations to Dr. Robert Miller, Assistant Professor of civil engineering and Assistant Director of UL Lafayette’s Louisiana Watershed Flood Center, for being selected for the Gulf Research Program’s Environmental Protection and Stewardship track of the 2021 Early-Career Research Fellowship (ECRF). Dr. Miller was one of eight scientists chosen by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Gulf Research Program (GRP) to receive the fellowship. Each fellow received a $76,000 award to conduct their research.

The fellowship is aimed at producing research to guide decisions regarding environmental protection and stewardship of the Gulf of Mexico’s changing ecosystems. The fellows will identify critical thresholds that may reduce or eliminate ecosystem services, research considerations for how different ecosystems interact with one another, and guide stakeholders in making better-informed decisions about weighing trade-offs among ecosystem services.

Dr. Miller’s individual research will study flood-mitigation infrastructure and research these projects’ effects on water quality, vegetation, and marine life populations. His plans for research include environmental sampling, numerical modeling, and field observations with assistance from undergraduate and graduate students.

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