罗伯特Twilley是路易斯安那州海格兰特学院的教授在海洋和沿海科学在LSU部执行董事。他在路易斯安那州立大学在2005年已在路易斯安那州环境研究特聘教授，并在若干行政能力，包括研究和经济发展的副校长，2007年至2010年和湿地生物地球化学研究所的主任从2004年到2007年担任2010年，他服役两年在路易斯安那大学的研究副总裁拉斐特分校，负责管理UL研究园和$ 70万美元的研究企业。He earned the UL Lafayette Foundation’s Distinguished Professor Award in 2000, where he was a professor in biology from 1986 to 2004. He founded the LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio in 2009, and also founded the Center for Ecology and Environmental Technology (CEET) at UL Lafayette in 1999. Most of his research has focused on coastal wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico, throughout Latin America, and in the Pacific Islands. He has published extensively on wetland ecology, global climate change, and has been involved in developing ecosystem models coupled with engineering designs to forecast the rehabilitation of coastal and wetland ecosystems.