Exposure to extreme events is a major concern in coastal regions where growing human
populations and stressed natural ecosystems are at significant risk to such phenomena …

The cross-shelf dynamics up-and downstream of the separation of the South Pacific Ocean's
Western Boundary Current (WBC) are studied using two years of high-resolution velocity …

Large-scale fish and crustacean kills, locally known as Jubilees, and harmful algal blooms
(HABs) have been occurring in Mobile Bay (Alabama) for more than a century. In fact, the …

Abstract The northern Gulf of Mexico (GoM) is a region strongly influenced by river
discharges of freshwater and nutrients, which promote a highly productive coastal …

Flushing of an estuary quantifies the overall water exchange between the estuary and
coastal ocean and is crucially important for water quality as well as biological and …

Understanding how animals alter habitat use in response to changing abiotic conditions is
important for effective conservation management. For bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) …

To use elements as salinity proxies, relationships of elemental concentrations with salinity
must be known and vary from freshwater to marine endmembers. To extend these proxies to …

Ciguatoxins (CTX) are potent marine neurotoxins, which can bioaccumulate in seafood,
causing a severe and prevalent human illness known as ciguatera poisoning (CP). Despite …

Upwellling and downwelling events are important coastal processes that strongly influence
shelf ecosystem dynamics. Though changes on the shelf have been well studied, the impact …

Abstract The Mississippi Bight, east of the Mississippi River, is a complex coastal ecosystem
that, like the better-known Louisiana Shelf to the west, experiences seasonal bottom water …