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Office: SL 136
 Email:
ltedesco@iupui.edu
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
Recent Publications
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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
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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.
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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.
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