Louise's research focuses on understanding and predicting changes in fluvial systems and floods in the context of contemporary shifts in both climate and land cover. She has published in the fields of hydrology, geomorphology, and climate, in leading scientific journals such as Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Climate Dynamics, Geology, Water Resources Research, Science, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Journal of Hydrology, and International Journal of Climatology.