Michelle Fischer

Geographer

Short Biography

Present - Geographer at US Geological Survey, National Wetlands Research Center, Coastal Restoration Field Station, Baton Rouge, LA.  Areas of interest: Land Change in coastal Louisiana, extreme weather and it's affects on coastal Louisiana.

Educational Background:

Master of Science, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2004.  Thesis: Extreme Precipitation Events in East Baton Rouge Parish: An Areal Rainfall Frequency/Magnitude Analysis.

Bachelor of Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2002.

Keim, B.D., M.R. Fischer, and A.M. Wilson, 2005: Are there spurious precipitation trends in the United States Climate Division database? Geophysical Research Letters. 32, L04702, doi: 10.1029/2004GL021985.

Rohli, R.V., M.M. Russo, A.J. Vega, and J.B. Cole, 2004: Tropospheric ozone is Louisiana and synoptic circulation.  Journal of Applied Meteorology. 43, 1438-1451.

My Science Topics

I am currently working with others to determine new land change rates across coastal Louisiana.  This is an effort to update previously published land change rates and to incorporate affects of recent storm events.  It is my goal that the results of this research will be used to further our understanding of land change in coastal Louisiana, as well as,  how this may affect coastal restoration and planning efforts under investigation.