John Pardue

Elizabeth Howell Stewart Endowed Professor Louisiana State University

  • Baton Rouge LA

Dr. Pardue's research interests focus in groundwater contamination and treatment.

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Biography

Dr. Pardue is the Director of the Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute, at Louisiana State University. He is also an Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the same university and has an Elizabeth Howell Stewart Professorship. His research interests focus in groundwater contamination and treatment.

Areas of Expertise

Environmental Engineering
Water Quality
Water Resources
Wetland Restoration
Public Health

Research Focus

Environmental Engineering & Water Quality

Dr. Pardue’s research focuses on contaminant fate and transport in coastal and urban waters, emphasizing oil-spill impacts, storm-flood water quality, and wetland restoration along the Gulf Coast. He pairs marsh and stormwater field sampling with bench-scale biogeochemical experiments and remediation modeling to guide spill response, habitat recovery, and public-health protection.

Education

Louisiana State University

Ph.D.

Civil Engineering)

1992

Louisiana State University

M.S.

Marine Sciences

1987

Rhodes College

B.S.

Biology

1983

Media Appearances

Mornings with Brian Haldane: John Pardue

Talk 107.3 Baton Rouge  radio

2022-10-06

John Pardue joins us to put the whole storing carbon under a lake thing in layman’s terms.

A lot of questions about carbon storage under Lake Maurepas have come up, and John Pardue is doing his best to give us fact-based answers, instead of a political one.

He tells us about the dangers that can arise from carbon storage underwater, the benefits, and the process.

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Articles

Implementation of Multi-level Interventions to Mitigate Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant at a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY in Southern United States

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

2023

Decay of oil residues in the soil is enhanced by the presence of Spartina alterniflora, with no additional effect from microbiome manipulation

Frontiers in Soil Science

2022

Recent work has suggested that the phytoremediation potential of S. alterniflora may be linked to a selection by the plant for oil-degrading microbial communities in the soil, in combination with enhanced delivery of oxygen and plant enzymes to the soil. In salt marshes, where the soil is saline and hypoxic, this relationship may be enhanced as plants in extreme environments have been found to be especially dependent on their microbiome for resilience to stress and to respond to toxins in the soil. Optimizing methods for restoration of oiled salt marshes would be especially meaningful in the Gulf of Mexico, where there is a persistently high threat of petroleum contamination. One favorable strategy for restoration of oiled sites might include planting S. alterniflora with a microbiome that has been pre-selected for an oiled environment. We examined this strategy with a two-year greenhouse experiment and found that planting S. alterniflora in an oiled environment enhances decomposition of oil residues without a clear negative impact on plant growth.

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Spatial and temporal comparisons of salt marsh soil fungal communities following the deepwater horizon spill

Wetlands Ecology and Management

2022

The unprecedented size of the deepwater horizon oil spill and scope of the subsequent response elicited intense and sustained interest in microbial responses to oiling, especially in salt marshes, which have featured prominently in debates about best practices to prevent and remediate oiling of vulnerable ecosystems. A number of studies have examined salt marsh soil microbial communities following the spill, but most have primarily concentrated on prokaryotes. The extent to which oiling elicited shifts in fungal diversity and community composition remains unclear. Here we present spatial and temporal comparisons of salt marsh soil fungal communities at two southern Louisiana salt marshes with contrasting oiling histories.

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