Accurate and detailed reporting of methods is essential for scientific progress, yet it is widely
accepted that authors across all scientific fields tend to provide insufficient methods detail …

Abstract Since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico Research
Initiative (GOMRI) has studied the oil spill from the perspectives of ocean environment …

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

Marine snow formation and vertical transport are naturally occurring processes that carry
organic matter from the surface to deeper waters, providing food and sequestering carbon …

Although plankton thin layers have been described and modeled in a variety of
environments, the physical structure surrounding the layer, associated biological rates, and …

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

River discharge, and its resulting region of freshwater influence (ROFI) in the coastal ocean,
has a critical influence on physical and biogeochemical processes in seasonally stratified …

Environmental drivers of abundance and distribution are poorly described for many
gelatinous zooplankton (GZ), yet this knowledge is essential to understanding the role of GZ …

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 …

River plumes discharging into continental shelf waters have the potential to influence the
distributions, predator-prey relationships, and thus survival of nearshore marine fish larvae …