A review of sediment diversion in the Mississippi River Deltaic Plain

K Xu, SJ Bentley, JW Day, AM Freeman - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf …, 2019 - Elsevier
One of the proposed methods for restoring the disappearing Mississippi Delta is sediment
diversion which uses channels and structures to divert water and sediment from the …

Contribution of tropical cyclones to the sediment budget for coastal wetlands in Louisiana, USA

AW Tweel, RE Turner - Landscape ecology, 2014 - Springer
The storm surge from a single hurricane can deposit tens of millions of tons of sediment on
coastal wetlands within 100 km of landfall, but the distribution and cumulative amount from …

[图书][B] The Atchafalaya River Basin: history and ecology of an American wetland

BP Piazza - 2014 - books.google.com
In this comprehensive, one-volume reference, Nature Conservancy scientist Bryan P. Piazza
poses five key questions:—What is the Atchafalaya River Basin?—Why is it important …

Storm induced hydrodynamics and sediment transport in a coastal Louisiana lake

AM Freeman, F Jose, HH Roberts, GW Stone - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf …, 2015 - Elsevier
Coupled hydrodynamic modeling and sediment core analysis was used to investigate
Hurricane Rita hydrodynamic conditions and associated sediment dynamics in Sister Lake …

Measuring carbon and nitrogen bioassimilation, burial, and denitrification contributions of oyster reefs in Gulf coast estuaries

P Westbrook, L Heffner, MK La Peyre - Marine Biology, 2019 - Springer
The eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) and the reefs they create provide significant
ecosystem services. This study measured their possible role in nutrient mitigation through …

Investigating the correspondence of acoustic amplitudes with penetrometer profiles in bottom sediments of a shallow coastal lake: Louisiana

AM Freeman, HH Roberts - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2022 - Elsevier
This study correlates side-scan sonar and CHIRP subbottom acoustic amplitudes with cone
penetrometer data to expand the limited understanding of the geotechnical properties of …

Complex sedimentary processes in large coastal embayments and their potential for coastal morphological and paleo tropical cyclone studies: A case study from …

PN Ranasinghe, JP Donnelly, RL Evans, JR Rodysill… - Marine Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
Storminess and sea-level can both have a significant impact on landforms in cyclone-prone
coastal regions, although much of our understanding comes from short-timescale modern …