River systems worldwide have become substantially influenced by human activities,
including land use changes, river diversion operations, and flood control measures. Some of …

Coastal Louisiana is dominated by the Mississippi River Deltaic Plain, which is composed of
a series of overlapping and truncated sub-delta lobes that formed an extensive coastal …

Water diversion has been increasingly applied to accelerate lake water exchange and
alleviate urgent water crisis. However, effects of water diversion on water exchange and …

Currently the Mississippi delta stands as a highly degraded and threatened coastal
ecosystem having lost about 25% of coastal wetlands during the twentieth century. To …

Large freshwater pulses to coastal ecosystems change local hydrologic regimes and alter
biogeochemical processes. The Mississippi Bight coastal ecosystem, located in the northern …

Future conditions of coastal Louisiana are highly uncertain due to the dynamic nature of
deltas, climate change, tropical storms, and human reliance on natural resources and …

Recent studies have shown that Lake Pontchartrain Estuary in Louisiana experiences
frequent harmful cyanobacterial blooms (cyanoHABs). In 2019, the Bonnet Carré Spillway …

During the spring and summer of 2019, an unprecedented cyanobacterial harmful algal
bloom (cyanoHAB) was responsible for beach advisories on 25 beaches along the …

Ongoing deterioration and loss of wetlands in the Mississippi River delta threatens the
survival of Louisiana's coastal ecosystems and human settlements. In response, the State of …

Louisiana estuaries are important habitats in the northern Gulf of Mexico, a region
undergoing significant and sustained human-and climate-driven changes. This paper …