Clint Willson

Dr. Clint Willson is the LSU CEDS Executive Committee Chair, Interim Dean of the College of the Coast & Environment at Louisiana State University, and Director of the LSU Center for River Studies. He holds the Mike N. Dooley Professorship in the LSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and is a Professional Engineer (P.E.).  Dr. Willson previously served as the Director of Engineering Design and Innovation at the Water Institute of the Gulf, as well as the Chair of the Changing Course Technical Team. With nearly two decades of service at LSU, his expertise is in environmental and water resources engineering, with primary research interest in the physical and numerical modeling of Mississippi River hydrodynamics and sediment transport. Dr. Willson holds a BS degree in Aerospace Engineering from Penn State, an MS degree in Environmental Health Engineering from UT-Austin, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from UT-Austin. Prior to LSU, he spent two years as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Willson’s primary research interests include high resolution 3D imaging of porous media systems, groundwater modeling, and small-scale physical modeling of flow and sediment in the Mississippi River Delta.