USGS: Science Topics: Louisiana Coastal

Science Topics

Louisiana Coastal

hydrologic subregion

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Atchafalaya - Vermilion (2 items)

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Louisiana continental slope [More info]: Louisiana continental slope interactive map with GIS datasets and sonar imagery.
Louisiana coastal land loss [More info]: Homepage for Louisiana coastal land loss, including links to press release, animation of wetland loss, and PDF digital images of land change maps.
Effects of Building a Sand Barrier Berm to Mitigate the Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Louisiana Marshes [More info]: An assessment of the potential protective effects on coastal marshes in Louisiana of building barrier berms seaward of the existing barrier islands and inlets to help block or reduce the onshore spread of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Atchafalaya & Mississippi River Deltas study: a tale of two deltas [More info]: Project of the Gulf of Mexico Integrated Science program that evaluates the transport and sedimentation of contaminates through the Mississippi River and Atchafalaya River delta to the near-shore Gulf of Mexico. Includes aerial photographs.
Amphibian monitoring in the Atchafalaya Basin [More info]: They're abundant in this area, but hard to count reliably. We outline a procedure for estimating the population sizes so that we can determine whether they're increasing or dwindling. We must both listen for their calls and visually confirm them.

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