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John Barras

John Barras is a Research Geographer at the St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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BARRIER ISLAND COMPREHENSIVE MONITORING PROGRAM (BICM)

Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program (BICM)

The goal of the State of Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) program is to provide long-term data on the barrier islands of Louisiana that could be used to plan, design, evaluate, and maintain current and future barrier-island restoration projects.
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Ecosystems, Natural Hazards, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center
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Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring Program (BICM)

The goal of the State of Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) program is to provide long-term data on the barrier islands of Louisiana that could be used to plan, design, evaluate, and maintain current and future barrier-island restoration projects.
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Topobathymetric Model of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, 1885 to 2021

To support U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) storm surge modeling for the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA), Lowermost Mississippi River Management Program (LMRMP), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal National Elevation Database (CoNED) Applications Project has created an integrated 1-meter topobathymetric digital elevation model (TBDEM) for the Northern Gulf o
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Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center

Documenting the multiple facets of a subsiding landscape from coastal cities and wetlands to the continental shelf

Land subsidence is a settling, sinking, or collapse of the land surface. In the southeastern United States, subsidence is frequently observed as sinkhole collapse in karst environments, wetland degradation and loss in coastal and other low-lying areas, and inundation of coastal urban communities. Human activities such as fluid extraction, mining, and overburden alteration can cause or exacerbate s
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Natural Hazards, Water Resources, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center (CFWSC), Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Water Science Center, South Atlantic Water Science Center (SAWSC), St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Using gis and image processing technology to assist wetland planning, protection, and restoration in coastal Louisiana

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Ecosystems, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center

Topobathymetric elevation model development using a new methodology: Coastal National Elevation Database

During the coming decades, coastlines will respond to widely predicted sea-level rise, storm surge, and coastalinundation flooding from disastrous events. Because physical processes in coastal environments are controlled by the geomorphology of over-the-land topography and underwater bathymetry, many applications of geospatial data in coastal environments require detailed knowledge of the near-sho
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Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , Coastal Changes and Impacts

Creating a Coastal National Elevation Database (CoNED) for science and conservation applications

The U.S. Geological Survey is creating the Coastal National Elevation Database, an expanding set of topobathymetric elevation models that extend seamlessly across coastal regions of high societal or ecological significance in the United States that are undergoing rapid change or are threatened by inundation hazards. Topobathymetric elevation models are raster datasets useful for inundation predict
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Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center , Coastal Changes and Impacts

Integrated coastal management in the Mississippi Delta: System functioning as the basis of sustainable management

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Ecosystems, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center
Delacroix area Mississippi river delta
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