Posted on May 7th, 2013 in Climate adaptation, Climate Impacts, Coastal Pollution, Ecosystem Management, Hypoxia & Eutrophication, Marine Spatial Planning, News Clips, Outreach, Restoration Support, Sea Level Rise, Sponsored Research, Wetland Carbon Sequestration
For decades, those leading efforts to keep southeast Louisiana from being swallowed by the Gulf of Mexico have supported “Putting the river back into the marsh.” The thinking is that the river should be allowed to build new land, just as it had done for millennia before flooding was controlled. But what if pollutants in the [...]
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Posted on September 25th, 2011 in Coastal Pollution, Hypoxia & Eutrophication, Sea Level Rise, Wetland Carbon Sequestration
Humans have dramatically increased the nitrogen load to coastal systems leading to eutrophication. Putting a monetary value on an ecosystem’s ability to remove nitrogen is effective for communicating the significance of often overlooked shallow water systems that are in decline due to sea level rise, urbanization and bulkhead construction. Using the common regionally derived dollar [...]
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