We report an assessment for determining the contribution by diatoms to community
productivity and respiration within a coastal benthic ecosystem with multiple autotrophs …

Abstract A multi-year (2007–2011) chemical time series of eight stations in the western
Mississippi Sound and northwestern Mississippi Bight was undertaken to examine 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 …

Coastal river-dominated oceans are physically complex, biologically productive, and
intimately connected to human socioeconomic activity. The Deepwater Horizon blowout and …

Coastal cities and ports are located along estuaries and deltas where flooding from rivers
can be as devastating as storm surges. Precise river discharge measurements are taken far …

Planktons are a fundamental piece of all ocean ecosystems yet, sampling plankton at the
high resolution required to understand their dynamics remains a challenge. In-situ imaging …

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 …

The spatiotemporal distribution of phytoplankton in estuaries is indicative of processes and
transport across the land–ocean aquatic continuum (LOAC). Estuaries, as biogeochemically …

In the northern Gulf of Mexico (nGoM), the Louisiana Shelf (LS) and Mississippi Bight (MB)
subregions are influenced by eutrophication to varying degrees. Despite recognition that …

Zooplankton respond to light levels, oceanographic conditions, and other cues through diel
vertical migrations (DVMs), which can occur at dawn and dusk. However, unraveling the …