A5084098140- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Marine and fisheries research
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Marine animal studies overview
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
Water Institute of the Gulf
2021-2024
Museum für Naturkunde
2022
Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change
2022
Dauphin Island Sea Lab
2019-2022
University of South Alabama
2022
The University of Texas at Austin
2020
University of South Florida
2019
Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) are highly efficient at carbon sequestration and, despite their relatively small distribution globally, recognized as a potentially valuable component of climate change mitigation. However, SAV mapping in tidal marshes presents challenge due to optically complex constituents the water. The emergence and advancement deep learning-based techniques field habitat with remote sensing imagery provides an opportunity address this challenge. In study, analytical...
Infauna influence geoacoustic parameters in surficial marine sediments. To investigate these effects, an experiment was conducted natural sand-silt sediment the northern Gulf of Mexico. In situ acoustic measurements sound speed, attenuation, and shear speed were performed, cores collected from upper 20 cm seabed. Laboratory attenuation conducted, after which core contents analyzed for biological physical properties. Since no model currently accounts effects infauna, a deviation predictions...
The activities of infaunal organisms, including feeding, locomotion, and home building, alter sediment physical properties grain size sorting, porosity, bulk density, permeability, packing, tortuosity, consolidation behavior. These are also known to affect the acoustic marine sediments, although previous studies have demonstrated complicated relationships between geoacoustic properties. To avoid difficulties associated with real animals, whose exact locations unknown, this work uses...
In Florida, resource use patterns by Armases cinereum (Armases), a highly abundant crab in coastal habitats, may serve as important indicators of habitat condition. Here we investigated feeding palm scrub forest to intertidal mangrove transition zones (transitions) well the relationship between disturbance and Armases' trophic position across three pairs geographically separated populations Tampa FL, USA. Each pair sites represented an unmodified "natural" location "disturbed" lacking upland...
Anthropogenic disturbances such as oil spills can cause mortality in benthic infaunal communities, reducing diversity and abundance impeding sediment ecosystem functions. Sublethal effects of exposure have received less attention, however. We conducted a mesocosm experiment exposing 2 taxa, the polychaete Owenia fusiformis brittle star Hemipholis elongata , to sublethal concentrations water-accommodated fraction (WAF) oil. evaluated WAF on animal behavior, bioturbation, oxygen demand (SOD)...
Louisiana contains nearly 40% of estuarine herbaceous wetlands in the contiguous United States, supporting valuable ecosystem services and providing significant economic benefits to state entire States. However, coastal is a hotspot for rapid land loss from factors including hurricanes, use change, high subsidence rates contributing relative sea‐level rise. The Coastal Protection Restoration Authority (CPRA) was established after major hurricanes 2005 coordinate restoration develop Master...
: Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) are highly efficient at carbon sequestration and, despite their relatively small distribution globally, recognized as a potentially valuable component of climate change mitigation. However, SAV mapping in tidal marshes presents challenge due to optically complex constituents the water. The emergence and advancement deep learn-ing-based techniques field habitat with remote sensing imagery provides an opportunity address this challenge. In study, analytical...
Climate action planning continues to accelerate rapidly across the globe as communities seek prepare thrive in an uncertain future. is a particularly contentious and complex topic southern United States, however, because of significant economic reliance on industries that contribute substantially greenhouse gas emissions, due complicated relationship between industry persistent racial inequities distrust communities, businesses, state governments. Within last decade, research efforts have...
Infaunal sedimentary communities underpin marine ecosystems worldwide. Understanding how disturbances such as oil spills influence infauna is therefore important, especially given that can be trapped in sediments for years or even decades. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) event was the largest spill United States history, impacting habitats throughout Northern Gulf of Mexico. We investigated infaunal community structure at two shallow sites Chandeleur Islands, LA, States, over a 2-year...
One of the world’s largest “blue carbon” ecosystems, Louisiana’s tidal wetlands on US Gulf Mexico coast, is rapidly being lost. strong legal, regulatory, and monitoring framework, developed for one wetland systems, provides an opportunity a programmatic approach to blue carbon accreditation support restoration these ecologically economically important wetlands. coastal span ∼1.4 million ha accumulate 5.5–7.3 Tg yr −1 (organic carbon), ∼6%–8% marsh accumulation globally. Louisiana has...
Outcomes of landscape scale restoration and conservation can be maximized when planning is based upon quantitative decision-relevant information. Existing tools to support data-driven are hindered by regionally inconsistent information a need for advanced methods analyze data varying spatial resolution coverage. We present synthesis methodology region-wide derived metrics characterize natural resource value, ecosystem stress, social vulnerability inform implementation projects. Our...
Long-term fisheries-independent sampling data inform population status and trends of species-specific biomass are often used to drive biomass-based food web models such as the Comprehensive Aquatic Systems Model (CASM). Indicators total mean trophic level derived from these CASM outputs management facilitate assessments on-going predicted coastal change restoration activities on fisheries, but rely consistent enable comparisons across space time. Changes in estuarine gradients, combined with...
Infaunal organisms are susceptible to disturbances such as hypoxia and sediment contamination; changes in infaunal community structure therefore often used indicators of anthropogenic disturbance. Susceptibility disturbance varies across taxa, either due physiological factors or behaviors functional roles that increase exposure. Both sources variability likely be heritable shared among related taxa. Thus, we would expect oil disproportionately affect taxa decrease phylogenetic diversity...
Animals with long, skinny bodies are often called “worms,” but there many kinds of worms—even in the ocean. Annelids (segmented worms) include garden earthworms, their ocean relatives come colors, shapes, and sizes. Some so small that they live between grains sand, while others can be longer than a human eat fish! Marine worms essential to food web, as both predators prey. They help create homes for plants animals by burrowing building tubes sediments. Scientists still discovering new worm...