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About NGI >> Member Institutions >> Mississippi State University


Mississippi State University

NGI Fellow representing MSU

Bill McAnally
mcanally@ngi.msstate.edu

MSU Research Strengths

  • Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing Systems
  • Watershed, River, and Estuarine Hydrodynamics, Sedimentation, and Water Quality
  • Meteorology
  • Visualization
  • Economic Assessment
  • High Performance Computing
  • Coastal Research and Extension/Outreach

Research Projects

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Active MSU ProjectsResearch Themes
EcosystemGeospatialClimateHazards
11-NGI_DMR_02 - Gulf of Mexico Alliance Web Support Project
11-BP_GRI-25 - Analyses of the Effects of Crude Oil on Increased Disease Susceptibility and Physiological Responses of Selected Gulf of Mexico Fishes  
11-BP_GRI-20 - An Ecosystem Modeling Framework to Examine Ecological Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill  
11-BP_GRI-19 - Comprehensive Study of the Impact of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on the Health and Productivity of Gulf Coast Salt Marshes 
11-BP_GRI-18 - Quantitative Studies of the Effects of Oil Exposure on the Pelagic Microbial Community and Sheepshead Minnow, Using a Global Proteomics Approach  
11-BP_GRI-17 - The Influence of Weather and Ocean Processes Using Numerical Modeling on the Fate and Transport of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 
11-BP_GRI-16 - Extend Sulis Toolkit  
11-BP_GRI-15 - Community Earth Modeling System for the NGOM 
10_SG_01 - Enhancing the Coastal IQ Survey: Measuring Knowledge and Attitudes of Gulf Coast Residents   
10-NRI_SURA_01 - A Super-Regional Testbed to Improve Models of Environmental Process of the U.S. Atlantic and GoM 
10-NGI_MOD-49 - Northern Gulf of Mexico Peer-Listening Network Support Project   
10-NGI_MOD-48 - Ecosystem Approach to Management for the Northern Gulf 
10-NGI_MOD-47 - Current Meter for Development of a Decision-Support Tool to Assess the Risk of Habitat  
10-NGI_MOD-46 - Ecosystem Services Valuation Workshop and Support
10-NGI_MOD-42 - The Mississippi Digital Earth Model  
10-NGI_MOD-40 - Inundation Mapping Strategies Workshop and Support  
10-NGI_MOD-39 - Development and Demonstration of a Single-Point-of-Access to Satellite Wind and Wave Products 
10-NGI_MOD-38 - 2010 Summer Internship for the NGI Ecosystem Data Assembly Center  
10-NGI_MOD-37 - WISDOM Launch and Coordination Activities during Hurricane Season along Gulf Coast   
10-NGI_MOD-35 - Air Monitoring and Analysis at the Grand Bay National Estuary Research  
10-NGI_DMR-04 - The Resiliency Social Climate Survey   
10-NGI_DMR-03 - Center for Marine Education and Research (CME&R) Education and Outreach (E&O) Enhancement Program   
10-NGI_COE - Regional Sediment Management for Mobile Basin  
10-MSU_NSF-01 - Teachers Exploring Coastal Hazards and Resilience   
10-BP_GRI_MSU-01 - Integrated Assessment of Oil Spill 
09-NGI_MOD-33 - NGI Support for Gulf of Mexico Alliance 2009 Governors Action Plan Implementation and Integration Workshop 
09-NGI_MOD-31 - Mississippi Digital Earth Model  
09-NGI_MOD-30 - 2009 Summer Internship for the NGI Ecosystem Data Assembly Center  
09-NGI_MOD-29 - Development of a Northern Gulf of Mexico Operational Forecast System 
09-NGI_MOD-28 - NGI and NCDDC Hyperspectral Imagery Support to the GOMA Habitat Project for Grand Bay NERR  
09-NGI_MOD-27 - AmoebaNet - testing advanced network capabilities using GeoFish and OceanNOMADS (FY 2009   
09-NGI_MOD-26 - Balloon and Payload Acquisition for WISDOM Activities during 2009 Hurricane Season  
09-NGI_MOD-25 - Developing an Understanding of Research and Operational Needs in the Gulf Region for the NOAA UAS Project  
09-NGI_MOD-24 - NOAA Coastal Storms Program-NOAA Unstructured Grid Cataloging Project 
09-NGI_MOD-23 - NGI Sustained Operations Alternatives   
09-NGI_MOD-21 - NOAA & NGI Mississippi Water Resources Conference Student Travel Program  
09-NGI_MOD-20 - NOAA & NGI Minority Summer 2009 Internship Program  
09-NGI_MOD-17 - NOAA Coastal Services Center-Risk Wise Communities Partnership Workshop    
09-NGI_MOD-16 - Air Monitoring and Analysis at the Grand Bay NERR  
09-NGI-18 - Forecasting Episodic Changes in Hurricane Intensity and Structure over the Gulf of Mexico   
09-NGI-17 - Northern Gulf Institute Integrated Education and Outreach Program
09-NGI-09 - Visual Analytics for Assessment and Interpretation of Simulated River Flooding  
09-NGI-06 - Toward an Understanding of Gulf Coast Resident Preferences and Perceptions on Risk and Restoration   
09-NGI-05 - Sediment and Mercury Path and Fate Modeling  
09-NGI-04 - Spatial variation and temporal trend of water quality in the northern Gulf of Mexico 
09-NGI-01 - Developing a Tool for Assessing Cost Effective Best Management Practices for Resilient Communities  
08-NMSF-01 - NGI Keycard Project 
08-NGI_MOD-15 - The Mississippi Digital Earth Model  
08-NGI_MOD-13 - NOAA Coastal Storms Program- ADCIRC (Storm Surge) Grid Cataloging Project   
08-NGI_MOD-12 - Participation in the NGI Prototype Integrated Ecosystem Assessment for the Northern Gulf of Mexico   
08-NGI_MOD-11 - Summer Internship for the NGI Ecosystem Data Assembly Center  
08-NGI_MOD-10 - Supplement to NGI Support to the NOAA NCDDC Diversity Metadata Summer Intern Project  
08-NGI_MOD-09 - NGI Sustained Operations Alternatives  
08-NGI_MOD-08 - WISDOM Balloon and Payload, Part 1: Prototype Acquisition   
07-NGI_MOD-05 - Support to the NOAA NCDDC Diversity Metadata Summer Intern Project   
07-MRC-01 - Socio-Economic Benefits Study of Ecosystem Datasets
06-MSU-09 - Improving Hurricane Intensity and Landfall Estimation with Refined Modeling   
06-MSU-08 - Northern Gulf Institute Outreach Efforts
06-MSU-07 - An Information Semantic Approach for Resource and Knowledge Discovery in an Integrated Ocean Observing System  
06-MSU-06 - Visualization Techniques for Improving Public Understanding of Catastrophic Events  
06-MSU-05 - Modeling Mobile Bay Sediments and Pollutants with New Technologies  
06-MSU-04 - Spatial Technology and High Performance Computing for Improving Prediction of Surface Water Quality  
06-MSU-03 - Watershed Modeling Improvements to Enhance Coastal Ecosystems  
06-MSU-02 - Assessing the Impact of Ordinances, Outreach and Enforcement on the Resiliency of Gulf Coastal Watersheds  
06-MSU-01 - Developing a Foundation for Analysis of Natural and Human-Induced Disturbances to Coastal Economies