Erin Kiskaddon, benthic ecologist, brings her experience in laboratory work and research on benthic ecosystems to the Institute’s coastal ecology team. Kiskaddon graduated from Whitman College with a concentration in biology and earned her master’s degree in biology from University of Southern Florida at Tampa where her thesis work was focused on trophic ecology of crabs in human-impacted mangrove habitats of Florida. Prior to joining the Institute, Kiskaddon was a laboratory technician and then laboratory manager in the Sediment Ecology Lab at Dauphin Island Sea Lab. Her research included the influence of benthic infauna on the acoustic properties of sediment, acoustic analysis of sediment communities, and involvement in a long-term assessment of the impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill on shallow-water benthic ecosystems in the northern Gulf of Mexico including work in the Chandeleur Islands.

Projects
Reports
- A Community-Informed Framework for Quantifying Risk and Resilience in Southeast Louisiana
- Mechanics of the Southeast Conservation Blueprint
- Advancement of the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS) for Project-Scale Planning: Chandeleur Islands (Breton National Wildlife Refuge) Restoration
- Application of the SECAS Gulf-wide Data Suite in Restoration Planning
- LA TIG Monitoring and Adaptive Management Strategy
- Consequence Analysis of the Draft Portfolio of Climate Strategies and Actions
- Consequence Analysis of a Hypothetical Portfolio of Climate Strategies
- Improving SECAS Gulf-wide Integration
- Southeast Conservation Blueprint Mechanics
- Guidance for Coastal Ecosystem Restoration and Monitoring to Create or Improve Bird-Nesting Habitat
Publications
- Supporting habitat restoration in the northern Gulf of Mexico through synthesis of data on multiple and interacting benefits and stressors
- Oil disturbance reduces infaunal family richness but does not affect phylogenetic diversity
- Quantifying the Potential Contribution of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation to Coastal Carbon Capture in a Delta System from Field and Landsat 8/9-Operational Land Imager (OLI) Data with Deep Convolutional Neural Network
- Tradeoffs in habitat value to maximize natural resource benefits from coastal restoration in a rapidly eroding wetland: is monitoring land area sufficient?
- Effects of sample gear on estuarine nekton assemblage assessments and food web model simulations
- Shallow infaunal responses to the Deepwater Horizon event: implications for studying future oil spills
- Impacts of infauna, worm tubes, and shell hash on sediment acoustic variability and deviation from the viscous grain shearing model
- The Weird and Wonderful World of Worms
- Evaluation of emission reduction and other societal and environmental outcomes: Structured decision making for the Louisiana climate action plan
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