Aquatic Primary Productivity and Spatial/Temporal Water Quality Variations of the Breton Sound Estuary and Impacts of Oil Pollution

Funding Cycle: The Northern Gulf Institute (NGI)
Funding Organization: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)

Impact of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on the Louisiana Coastal Environments

Funding Cycle: The Northern Gulf Institute (NGI)
Funding Organization: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)

Expanding Ecosystem Service Provisioning from Coastal Restoration to Minimize Environmental and Energy Constraints

Description: Researchers intend to show how healthy ecosystems support healthy and resilient Gulf communities through benefits like improved water quality, sustainable fisheries and recreation, and better storm protection. The team plans to address how these benefits change over time, both with and without restoration activities that respond to climate change, sea-level rise, and future energy costs. This work could help decision makers prioritize and sequence restoration projects by showing them how project timing affects project costs.

Funding Cycle: Healthy Ecosystems 1
Funding Organization: National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program

Monthly water samples from Barataria and Lake Pontchartrain estuaries from July 2010 to December 2011

Monthly transects at Breton Sound and Barataria Bay

Abundance and virulence of Vibrios and water quality in Breton Sound

Water Chemistry and Phytoplankton productivity

Breton Sound estuary water quality data, 7/2/2010 to 12/14/2011.