Distribution and trophic importance of anthropogenic nitrogen in Narragansett Bay: an assessment using stable isotopes

A Oczkowski, S Nixon, K Henry, P DiMilla, M Pilson… - Estuaries and …, 2008 - Springer
Narragansett Bay has been heavily influenced by human activities for more than 200 years.
In recent decades, it has been one of the more intensively fertilized estuaries in the USA …

Tidal flushing and eddy shedding in Mount Hope Bay and Narragansett Bay: an application of FVCOM

L Zhao, C Chen, G Cowles - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The tidal motion in Mt. Hope Bay (MHB) and Narragansett Bay (NB) is simulated using the
unstructured grid, finite‐volume coastal ocean model (FVCOM). With an accurate geometric …

Estimating an estuarine mixing and exchange ratio from boundary data with application to Mt. Hope Bay (Massachusetts/Rhode Island)

DG MacDonald - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2006 - Elsevier
Methods are presented to evaluate an estuarine residence time using volume, salt, and
temperature budgets from system boundaries. Changes in the distribution of flux with …

Water-quality monitoring strategy for Mount Hope Bay and the Taunton River Estuary, southeastern Massachusetts

DS Armstrong - 2024 - pubs.usgs.gov
The water-quality monitoring strategy (WQMS) for Mount Hope Bay and the Taunton River
Estuary is the result of a cooperative project between the US Geological Survey and the …

Natural and anthropogenic influences on the Mount Hope Bay ecosystem: Concluding remarks

DG MacDonald, RA Rountree - Northeastern Naturalist, 2006 - BioOne
The papers in this volume have provided a detailed focus on various aspects of the Mount
Hope Bay ecosystem, from the local heat budget to Pseudopleuronectus americanus …

Critical issues for circulation modeling of Narragansett Bay and Mount Hope Bay

C Chen, L Zhao, G Cowles, B Rothschild - Science for Ecosystem-based …, 2008 - Springer
Narragansett Bay is a medium-sized estuary located along the coast of the northeast United
States with shoreline in both Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The bay covers 380 km2 …

An “ecofunctional” approach to ecosystem-based management for Narragansett Bay

BA Costa-Pierce, A Desbonnet - Science for Ecosystem-Based …, 2008 - Springer
Ecosystem-based management is an integrated approach that takes into consideration the
entire ecosystem, including humans (McLeod et al., 2005). The goal of ecosystem-based …

Introduction to the Special Issue: Natural and anthropogenic influences on the Mount Hope Bay ecosystem

RA Rountree, DG MacDonald - Northeastern Naturalist, 2006 - JSTOR
2006 RWA. Rountree and DG MacDonald 3 Five rivers discharge fresh water into the Bay,
the largest of which is the Taunton River, draining a watershed of nearly 1500 kM2, with an …

Dynamics and kinematics of an estuarine network

WB Corlett - 2019 - dspace.mit.edu
Each front is generated by a different mechanism; however, all are generated by tidal flow
through channel junctions during ebb tide, and are advected landward during flood tide …