Southeastern Louisiana University recently acquired a new research boat for its ongoing Lake Maurepas monitoring project.
All decked out in Southeastern green and gold, the water vehicle is a 24-foot landing craft boat, similar to a D-day boat, with a bow that drops down.
Director of the Lake Maurepas Monitoring Project Kyle Piller said the state-of-the-art research boat will allow them to more quickly access research sites in the lake and to more efficiently and effectively complete monitoring research objectives. Piller added that the landing craft will also allow project researchers to improve and expand lake monitoring capabilities by having a single, broad use vessel to service the monitoring buoys, deploy crab traps, pull trawls in the open water, and set gill nets near the shoreline of Lake Maurepas.
For more information, visit www.southeastern.edu/lakemaurepas.
