A professor in New Orleans has received a one-year $108,000 grant to study ways to keep marshy coasts in Louisiana from eroding.
Malay Ghose Hajra teaches engineering at the University of New Orleans. A researcher in the first of both civil and environmental engineering, he joins a group of other academic researchers who have received funding from the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and The Water Institute of the Gulf to study marsh restoration and the geotechnical properties of coastal sediments. Specifically, he will be looking at how different types of soils resist erosion differently, and which are the most resilient.
UNO engineering professor wins coastal protection grant
Malay Ghose Hajra, a University of New Orleans engineering professor, is one of three recipients of a 2015 applied research grant from the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and The Water Institute of the Gulf. An assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, …
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