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Dr. Lenore P. Tedesco, Associate Professor of Geology & Director of the Center for Earth and Environmental Science (CEES)

PhD 1991, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
Specialties: Wetland Ecosystem Restoration, Environmental Education, Sedimentology, Records of Environmental and Climate Change
 The Sedimentology Laboratory
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Office: SL 136
Phone: 274-7154
Email: ltedesco@iupui.edu 

Research focuses on wetland restoration including evaluation of restoration strategies and wetland function. This includes studies of urban riparian reforestation, fen wetland restoration, and on the distribution of anthropogenic pollutants. Additional research interests address regional watershed and water quality issues. Dr. Tedesco is working with the Pervasive Technology Labs and CEES staff to develop an autonomous environmental monitoring network measuring water quality throughout central Indiana. Environmental education based on restoration research and environmental monitoring is an important part of her research interest.
New interdisciplinary research foci are evaluating ecosystem restoration strategies in Midwestern floodplain forests associated with interdisciplinary research at the Center for Earth and Environmental Science. A major new research initiative will examine nutrient and sediment cycling in reservoirs in the Indianapolis area.
 

Recent Publications:

  • Barr, R.C., Hall, B.E., Wilson, J.S., Souch, C., Lindsey, G., Bacone, J.A., Campbell, R.K., and Tedesco, L.P.,2002. Documenting changes in the natural environment of Indianapolis-Marion County between the time of European settlement (ca. 1820) and the present: Ecological Restoration, v. 20, p. 37-46.
  • O'Neal, M.A., Tedesco, L.P., Souch, C., and Pachut, J.F., 2001. A Pollen Zonation of Southwester Florida Using Multivariate Statistical Methods and Its Application to Two Vertical Sedimentary Sequences: Bull. American Paleontology, Number 361, Paleoecological Studies of South Florida, B.R. Wardlaw (ed.), Chapter 6, p. 101-132.
  • Nelsen, T.A., Garte, G., Featherstone, C., Wanless, H.R., Trefry, J.H., Kang, W.J., Metz, S., Alvarez-Zarikian, C., Hood, T., Swart, P., Ellis, G., Blackwelder, P., Tedesco, L.P., Souch, C.S., Pachut, J.P., and O'Neal, M.A., 2001. Linkages between the South Florida peninsula and coastal zone: A sediment-based history of natural and anthropogenic influences: Chapter 14, in The Everglades, Florida Bay, and Coral Reefs of the Florida Keys: An Ecosystem Sourcebook. J.W. Porter and K.G. Porter (eds.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL., p. 415-450.
  • Tedesco, L.P. and Aller, R.C., 1997. 210Pb Chronology of sequences affected by burrow excavation and infilling: Examples from shallow marine carbonate sediment sequences, Holocene of south Florida and Caicos Platform, British West Indies: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 67, p. 36-46.
  • Locker, S.D., Hine, A.C., Tedesco, L.P., and Shinn, E.A., 1996. Magnitude and timing of episodic sea-level rise during the last deglaciation: Geology, v. 24, p. 827-830.
  • Tedesco, L.P. Wanless, H.R., Scusa, L.A., Risi, J.A., and Gelsanliter, S., 1995. Impact of Hurricane Andrew on South Florida's sand coastlines: Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 21, p. 59-82.
  • Risi, J.A., Wanless, H.R., Tedesco, L.P., and Gelsanliter, S., 1995.Catastrophic sedimentation from Hurricane Andrew along the southwest Florida coast: Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 21, p. 83-102.
  • Tedesco, L.P. and Wanless, H.R., 1995. Growth and transformation of carbonate banks: Comparison of modern skeletal banks of south Florida and Pennsylvanian banks of southeastern Kansas: International Association of Sedimentologists Spec. Publication #23: Mud Mounds: Origin and Evolution, C.V.L. Monty, D. Bosence, P. Bridges, and B. Pratt (eds.), p. 495-521.
  • Wanless, H.R., Cottrell, D.J., Tagett, M.G., Tedesco, L.P., and Warzeski, E.R., 1995. Origin and growth of carbonate mud banks in south Florida: a reevaluation: International Association of Sedimentologists Spec. Publication #23: Mud Mounds: Origin and Evolution, C.V.L. Monty, D. Bosence, P. Bridges, and B. Pratt (eds.), p. 439-473.
  • Wanless, H.R., Tedesco, L.P., Risi, J.A., Bischof, B.G., Gelsanliter, S., 1995. The Role of Storm Processes on the Growth and Evolution of Coastal and Shallow Marine Sedimentary Environments in South Florida, 1st SEPM Congress on Sedimentary Geology, Field Trip Guidebook, p. 179.
  • Hine, A.C., Harris, M.W., Locker, S.D., Hallock, P., Peebles, M., Tedesco, L.P., Mullins, H.T., Snyder, S.W., Belknap, D.F., Gonzales, J.L., Neumann, A.C., and Martinez, J., 1994. Sedimentary infilling of an open seaway; Bawihka Channel, Nicaraguan Rise: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. B64(1), p. 2-25.
  • Wanless, H.R., Parkinson, R.W., and Tedesco, L.P., 1994. Sea level control on stability of Everglades wetlands: in Everglades: The Ecosystem and Its Restoration, S. Davis and J. Ogden (eds.), St. Lucie Press, Delray Beach, FL, p. 199-223.