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Modeling Grand Bay Marsh Productivity with Sea-Level Rise

By St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center 2018 (approx.)
a map shows a coastal area turning from green to blue (indicating water) across a future sea-level rise projection to 2100
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Scientists at the USGS St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center use Hydro-MEM, a two-dimensional coastal wetland model that integrates an Advanced Circulation hydrodynamic model with a Marsh Equilibrium Model to project marsh response to sea-level rise. In Grand Bay, the model predicts that marshes will lose productivity under a high sea-level rise scenario, and attempt to migrate upland or convert to open water.

The graphic (Alizad and others, 2018) shows predicted model output of marsh productivity in Grand Bay under a high sea-level rise scenario between the year 2000 and 2100.



Explore modeling efforts for Grand Bay in this geonarrative.

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