George Woddell is an assistant professor in Environmental Sociology. Previous work includes development of a risk index for waterborne vessel traffic on the MIssissippi River, impact analyses for various marsh restoration projects in southern Louisiana and studies of shrimping, subsidence, and oil field matters.

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Louisiana State University, 1999 (Sociology).
Dissertation title: Hazards to Navigation on the Lower Mississippi River and At- Risk Human Populations.

M.A.: Louisiana State University, 1993 (Sociology).
Thesis title: "Folk Healing, Subsistence and Marginal Economics Among the Louisiana French."

B.A.: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1983 (Major in Sociology; Minor in Biology).

HONORS AND AWARDS
1990-1999 Alumni Fellowship, Louisiana State University.
1984-1986 Regents' Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara.
1983 Graduated cum laude from the University of Southwestern Louisiana.
1983 Ben Kaplan Award, University of Southwestern Louisiana.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2001-Present Assistant Professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
1993-2001 Instructor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
1987-1989 Science Teacher, Washington High School
1984-1986 Teaching Assistant, University of California at Santa Barbara
1981 Biology Teacher, Opelousas Catholic High School

AREAS OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Environmental Sociology, Social Problems, Minority Groups, Criminology, Methods

AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST
Risk Assessment
Environmental Sociology
Impact Assessment
Minority Groups
Criminology

RECENT REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
2005 Wooddell, George and Jacques Henry. “The Advantage of a Focus on Advantage: A Note on Teaching Minority Groups”. Teaching Sociology. Forthcoming

2005 Laska, Shirley, George Wooddell, Ronald Hagelman, Robert Gramling, and Monica Teets Farris. At Risk: The Human, Community and Infrastructure Resources of Coastal Louisiana. Journal of Coastal Research (forthcoming).

2002. Wooddell, George, Robert Gramling and Craig J. Forsyth. “A Method for Modeling Low- Probability, High-Consequence Risk Events: Vessel Traffic on the Lower Mississippi River.” Pierce Law Review. 1 (1) 85-101.

2001 Forsyth, Craig J., George Wooddell, and Rhonda Evans. “Predicting Symmetry in Male/Female Crime Rates.” Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology 16 (2): 1 - 9.

2000 Evans, Rhonda D., Craig J. Forsyth and George Wooddell. "Macro and Micro View of Erotic Tourism" Deviant Behavior 21(6): 537-50.

1998 Gramling, Robert, George Wooddell, and Craig J. Forsyth. "Work Scheduling and The Construction Of Family Disruption." Free Inquiry In Creative Sociology 26 (2):185-92.

1998 Gramling, Robert, Craig Forsyth and George Wooddell. 1998. “Expert Informants and Relative Risk: A Methodology For Modeling Waterways.” Risk Analysis 18:557-562.

1998 Forsyth, Craig J., Robert Gramling and George Wooddell. 1998. "The Game Of Poaching: Folk Crimes In Southwest Louisiana." Society and Natural Resources 11 (1): 25-38.

1996 Wooddell, George, Craig J. Forsyth, and Robert Gramling. "Technological Change, Resource Management and Conflict: Commercial Shrimping in Louisiana." Sociological Spectrum 16(4): 437:472.

RECENT APPLIED PUBLICATIONS
Wooddell, George, Robert Gramling, Craig Forsyth, Frank Ducrest. 2004. A Historical Analysis of Louisiana Oil Spills Baton Rouge: Louisiana Oil Spill Research and Development Program.

Gramling, Robert, George Wooddell. 2001. Process/Implementation Evaluation: Capitalizing the Bridge from Welfare to Work to Independence Demonstration Project. Washington D.C. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services.

Gramling, Robert, Craig Forsyth, George Wooddell. 1998. A Test and Refinement of a Risk Model for Vessel Traffic on the Lower Mississippi River. Baton Rouge: Louisiana Oil Spill Research and Development Program.

Forsyth, Craig. Robert Gramling, George Wooddell. 1996. Modeling the Mississippi: Oil Spill Risk on Louisiana's Largest Waterway. Baton Rouge: Louisiana Oil Spill Research and Development Program.

Gramling, Robert, Craig Forsyth, George Wooddell. 1995. An Oil Resource Atlas for Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana Oil Spill Research and Development Program.

RECENT FUNDED RESEARCH
2003-2006 Co-Principal Investigator: Anticipating socioeconomic effects of Louisiana’s coastal restoration projects. . Baton Rouge: Louisiana Governor’s Applied Coastal Research and Development Program. $213,998.

2002-2005 Co- Investigator: Use of Science in Gulf of Mexico Decision Making Involving Climate Change. Environmental Protection Agency. Washington, D.C. $1,500,000.

2001-2003 Principal Investigator: A Historical Analysis of Oil Spills in Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana Applied Oil Spill Research and Development Program. $69,171.

1999-2001 Co-Principal Investigator: Production and Analysis of an Oil Spill Database for Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana Applied Oil Spill Research and Development Program. $74,320.

2000 Needs Assessment for Deep Water Channel: Port of New Iberia Louisiana

2000 Data Analysis and Grant Facilitator for Lafayette Parish Sheriff

2000 Survey Analysis for Iberia Parish Sheriff and New Iberia Police Department

2000 Survey Analysis for Vernon Parish Sheriff and Leesville Police Department

1998 Needs Assessment for the expansion of Frank's Oilfield Pipe Yard Facilities

1998 Co-Principal Investigator: A Test and Refinement of a Risk Model for Vessel Traffic on the Lower Mississippi River. Baton Rouge: Louisiana Oil Spill Research and Development Program. $57,205.

1997-2000 Co-Principal Investigator: Process Evaluation of “Capitalizing the Bridge, From Welfare to Work to Independence.” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services $149,854.

RECENT PAPERS PRESENTED
2004 Forsyth, Craig J., Robert Gramling, and George Wooddell. "Elements of a Fishing Community: A Study of Louisiana Places," The Southwestern Sociological Association, Corpus Christi, Texas.

2003 Wooddell, George, Robert Gramling, Craig Forsyth. “A Historical Analysis of Oil Spills in Louisiana.” Annual Louisiana Applied and Educational Oil Spill Research and Development Symposium. Baton Rouge, Louisiana

2003 Wooddell, George, Robert Gramling, Craig Forsyth, Frank Ducres. “An Oil Spill CD Program.” 10th Annual International Petroleum Environmental Conference. Houston, Texas

2002 Wooddell, George and Jacques Henry. 2002. “The A.B.D. of Teaching Minority Groups: The Advantage of a Focus on Advantage.” The Annual Meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association. Memphis, Tennessee

2002 Wooddell, George, C. Eddie Palmer and Robert Gramling 2002. “Philanthropy: Differing Perceptions of Need.” Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana

2000 Wooddell, George, Craig J. Forsyth and Robert Gramling. "If It Looks Like A Duck...:Cases Of Corporate Deviance." The Southwestern Sociological Association, Galveston, Texas.

2000 Gramling, Robert, Craig J. Forsyth, and George Wooddell. 1998. "Developing And Testing A Risk Model For Vessel Traffic." The Annual Meeting of American Workboat Operators, New Orleans, Louisiana.

COMMUNITY SERVICE
2003- Present Executive Board: Affiliated Blind of Louisiana

2000-2003 Secretary/Treasurer, Executive Board: Affiliated Blind of Louisiana

1997 Database Design: Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Acadiana

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