Dr. Kim de Mutsert is a fish ecologist and ecosystem modeler. She earned her M.S in Biology at the University of Amsterdam, and her Ph.D. on Oceanography and Coastal Sciences at LSU. Her research focuses on the effects of environmental and anthropogenic stressors on estuarine food webs. For MissDelta, she is developing an ecosystem model of the lower Mississippi River Delta and surrounding coastal waters including the Mississippi Sound and Bight, with the goal to forecast effects of a changing coastal landscape and water quality on fish and shellfish biomass and distribution.
