the Mangrove Lab

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Providing the evidence base for effective coastal conservation and restoration in a changing climate

blue carbon

climate change

restoration

policy

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who we are

The Mangrove Lab are a team at Tulane University dedicated to the conserving and restoring coastal ecosystems in a changing climate.

We train the next generation of mangrove and blue carbon researchers, and our team includes postdoctoral researchers, PhD students and undergraduate students.

We use a variety of approaches in our research, including field work, modelling, remote sensing, policy analysis and social science techniques.

We work globally, and have a particular focus on blue carbon as a tool to incentivise action to protect and restore coastal ecosystems.

From 2009 to 2022 the Mangrove Lab were based at the National University of Singapore.

Meet the Mangrove Lab

Mangrove Lab news

The Mangrove Lab are in Florida!

Luke, Damir and Dan wrapped up 2 weeks of fieldwork in Key West and Tampa Bay, as part of a DoD SERDP-funded project measuring organic matter dynamics in mangroves. This was a fun collaborative project with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, the US Army Corps of Engineers, the US Geological Survet and the University of Tennessee.

Dan interviewed on Fox 8

Dan gave a live interview about mangroves on Fox 8 WVUE Louisiana, check it out here: https://www.fox8live.com/video/2026/07/16/tulane-study-mangrove-forests-la-coastline/

The Mangrove Lab at MMM7 in Japan

The Mangrove Lab joined 300 other mangrove nerds in Ishigaki Japan, for MMM7, the 7th edition of the world's largest conference dedicated to mangroves. Several lab members presented their research on GHG fluxes in Mexico's mangroves (Zoë), global estimates of mangrove GHG flux (Luke), the state of mangrove blue carbon in Southeast Asia (Dan) and community uses of mangroves in Puerto Rico (Bella).

Contact

Blessey Hall, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University

6823 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA