UL Lafayette’s Dr. Robert Miller (right) will study the Gulf of Mexico’s ecosystem as part of a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine effort. He is an assistant professor of civil engineering and assistant director of the University’s Louisiana Watershed Flood Center. Miller and the center’s director, Dr. Emad Habib, discuss water gauges by the Vermilion River. Photo credit: Doug Dugas / University of Louisiana at Lafayette.