Dr. Ioannis Georgiou is the Director of Coastal and Deltaic Systems and has more than 20 years of experience working in the Mississippi River Delta Plain, and other coastal systems nationwide. Ioannis has experience on various surface processes occurring in rivers, deltas, estuaries and marshes, and led many studies to understand regional-to-local processes driving geomorphic change using observations in the field and numerical models. In Louisiana, Ioannis has experience in the evolution of Louisiana barrier islands and inlets in response to coastal erosion and interior wetland loss, the response of bays and sounds to freshwater and sediment diversions, the exchange of water and sediment during storms along coastal systems, and the dynamics of saltwater intrusion in the lower Mississippi River and Delta. At the institute, he is leading the ongoing modeling in support of CPRA’s Sediment Diversion Program, he continues to be involved in the barrier islands and tidal inlets aspects of the 2023 Coastal Masterplan and leads technical modeling teams supporting the development of multidimensional coastal evolution models in Louisiana and the rest of the country.