Richard Keim, Ph.D.
School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University

Richard Keim is an Assistant Professor in the School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University. His research interests include hydrology of forested wetlands and watersheds; management of bottomland and coastal forests; hydrological interactions between forests, soils and the atmosphere; ecosystem restoration; and scaling of hydrological processes.

His current research is on dendrochronological assessment of hydrological effects on wetland forest productivity, spatial assessment of forest productivity and hydrological conditions in the delta of the Mississippi River and development of management tools for cypress-tupelo wetland forests.
He holds a BS and MS in Forestry from Mississippi State University, and a Ph.D. in Forest Engineering from Oregon State University. He is a native of Colorado.