Mississippi River
One Dimensional Modeling of Sedimentation Impacts for the Mississippi River at the West Bay Diversion
... The Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) funded construction of the West Bay Sediment Diversion Project (WBSD) on the west bank of the Mississippi River for the purpose of ...
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Integrating multimedia models to assess nitrogen losses from the Mississippi River basin to the Gulf of Mexico
... large river basins to ad- dress impacts of fertilization, meteorology, and atmospheric N deposition on water quality can be ...the Mississippi River basin (MRB) to simulate streamflow and dissolved N ...
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Effects of Agricultural Conservation Practices on Oxbow Lake Watersheds in the Mississippi River Alluvial Plain
... the Mississippi River alluvial plain were designed to utilize working farms to evaluate primary pollutants in water resources and to identify conservation practices that are most effective in reducing the ...
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Survival and Spatial Ecology of the Snapping Turtle, Chelydra serpentina , on the Upper Mississippi River
... We studied the survival and spatial ecology of adult Snapping Turtles ( Chelydra serpentina ) on Pool 8 of the Upper Mississippi River (UMR) during 1997-2001. We captured 597 Snapping Turtles 745 times (333 ...
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The Mississippi River Delta Basin and Why We are Failing to Save its Wetlands
... Even prior to hurricanes Katrina and Rita, loss of wetlands in Louisiana was recognized as a national problem. However, nothing has been done to effectively stem this tragedy. The decline of this environment is now ...
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A Simulation of the Mississippi River Salt Wedge Estuary Using a Three-Dimensional Cartesian Z Coordinate Model
... lower Mississippi River due to density gradients is a well- documented ...the Mississippi River in 1939 and 1940 when saltwater was observed approximately 225 km upstream from the mouth of ...
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Large freshwater and sediment impoundments between the Mississippi River and the Louisiana coastline
... the Mississippi River can be mimicked for the southern Louisiana coastline by installing a series of very large spillways (similar in size to the Bonnet Carre spillway) and by creating a series of very ...
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Restoring the Mississippi River Delta in Louisiana Ecological Tradeoffs and Barriers to Action
... The Coastal Master Plan strongly represents the needs and concerns of the navigation industry. The plan offers increased protection for critical navigational infrastructure. While there have been some project impacts to ...
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Using GRACE in a streamflow recession to determine drainable water storage in the Mississippi River basin
... sippi River basin ...the Mississippi River basin with 3 along the Ohio River (1–3), 3 along the upper Mississippi River (4–6), 5 along the Missouri River (7–11) and 1 near ...
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Interaction between Soil Moisture and Air Temperature in the Mississippi River Basin
... However, due to a lack of sufficient long-term and high-resolution SM data, systematically synthesizing the relationship between SM and T remains a signifi- cant challenge. Here we propose the first exclusive analysis ...
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The Limnology of a Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Oxbow Lake Following the Application of Conservation Practices
... (CEAP) benchmark watersheds [24]. As such, the watershed has produced a significant long-term database of best management practices (BMPs) from 1994-2011. This study was conducted on Beasley Lake located south of In- ...
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Rethinking the Mississippi River diversion for effective capture of riverine sediments
... the Mississippi-Atchafalaya Rivers and the dynamics of their deltaic areas demonstrate that the reduction of sediment loads from the upper river basin should not be considered as the major cause for the ...
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Growth laws for sub-delta crevasses in the Mississippi River Delta: observations and modeling
... approximately 11AM, and consisted of twelve transects. Transects were made at the entrance of Cubit’s Gap, multiple locations across Octave Pass, and at the entrances of both SDC (Figure 4A). The second survey consisted ...
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Plaquemines spillways : the impact of the lower Mississippi river levees on storm surge during hurricanes
... eastern Mississippi river levees end. The Mississippi river flows from the northwest to the southeast at this location during normal ...
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3-D Hydrodynamic and Non-Cohesive Sediment Transport Modeling in the Lower Mississippi River
... The Mississippi River is one of the major rivers of the United States. For centuries it has been a natural resource that has been used for industrial and economic purposes. As it approaches the Gulf of ...
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Gaining ground: wetlands, hurricanes, and the economy: the value of restoring the Mississippi River Delta
... the Mississippi River to reconnect it to the delta ...the Mississippi River Delta ...the Mississippi River and are inexpensive to operate over the long run ...
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Numerical Modeling of River Diversions in the Lower Mississippi River
... In the last few decades, several modeling efforts have been devoted to the Lower Mississippi River. The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) used TABS-MD (Donnel and Letter 1991) to model a portion ...
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Gaining Ground – Wetlands, Hurricanes and the Economy: The Value of Restoring the Mississippi River Delta
... Ecosystems are comprised of structural components (trees, wetland plants, soil, hill slopes, etc.) and dynamic processes (water flows, nutrient cycling, animal life cycles, etc.) that create functions (water catchment, ...
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Legacy Habitat Suitability of eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in Louisiana: a prelude to Mississippi River Delta freshwater diversions
... the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO), the Intercoastal Waterway (ICW) and Inner Harbor Navigational Canal (IHNC) provide channels for saltwater intrusion into the surrounding wetlands (Lopez 2003, ...
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POPULATION DYNAMICS OF ZEBRA MUSSELS DREISSENA POLYMORPHA (PALLAS, 1771) DURING THE INITIAL INVASION OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER, USA
... The exotic zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas, 1771) was first discovered in North America in 1988 in Lake St Clair of the Great Lakes Basin (Hebert, Muncaster & Mackie, 1989). Throughout the late 1980s and ...
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