Linda Deegan

Linda Deegan
Alma materLouisiana State University
Scientific career
ThesisThe population ecology and nutrient transport of gulf menhaden in Fourleague Bay, Louisiana (1985)

Linda Ann Deegan is an estuarine and arctic ecologist with expertise in freshwater inputs, food web interactions, eutrophication, estuaries, and coastal processes. Her research combines ecosystem perspectives, energy flows, and community dynamics to tackle issues such as the effects of habitat degradation on fish communities, the importance of fish in exporting nutrients and carbon in estuaries, and the response of upper trophic levels to increased nutrient trends in arctic landscapes. Deegan is the co-editor-in-chief of Estuaries and Coasts.