She leads a team with Dr. Phil Stouffer, also at RNR, and post-doctoral researcher Christy Bergeon Burns to study the Seaside Sparrow. Dr. Linda Hooper-Bui is an entomologist and associate professor at the LSU Agricultural Center and leads a team studying insects. These researchers are members of a larger group, the Coastal Waters Consortium (CWC), directed by Dr. Nancy Rabalais. The CWC takes a big-picture perspective of the critically-important area of Louisiana marshes. Their studies include multiple environmental stressors, from hurricanes and flooding to sea-level rise and oil spills on land-based creatures and marine and plant life.