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The goal of barrier island restoration in the northern Gulf of Mexico is to restore barrier island morphology using sediment to support the functions and habitats the islands provide. Barrier island restoration typically involves placement of sediment either directly on the island footprint or within the littoral zone for system transport and distribution. The re-engineering of barrier islands presents numerous challenges and uncertainties associated with climate change induced hurricanes/storms and other dynamic components of the system such as sediment availability and erosional trends. The goal of this study was to use a collaborative SDM approach to develop two Bayesian decision network models (DMs) for restoration...
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Data Visualization & Tools,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Extreme Weather,
Gulf of Mexico, USA,
Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program, All tags...
Science Tools For Managers,
Sea-Level Rise and Coasts,
Ship Island, Mississippi, USA,
Southeast CASC,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
adaptive management,
barrier islands,
decision support methods,
ecosystem management, Fewer tags
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The Gulf Coast Vulnerability Assessment (GCVA) used an expert opinion approach to qualitatively assess the vulnerability of four ecosystems: mangrove, oyster reef, tidal emergent marsh, and barrier islands, and a suite of wildlife species that depend on them. More than 50 individuals participated in the completion of the GCVA, facilitated via Ecosystem and Species Expert Teams. The GCVA made use of the Standardized Index of Vulnerability and Value Assessment (SIVVA) (Reece and Noss 2014) to provide an objective framework for evaluating vulnerability by guiding assessors through a series of questions related to the changes an ecosystem or species might experience due to climate change and other threats. Assessors...
Categories: Data;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Alabama,
BARRIER ISLANDS,
BIOSPHERE,
BIOSPHERE,
Barrier Islands, All tags...
COASTAL LANDFORMS,
Complete,
Conservation NGOs,
Data,
EARTH SCIENCE,
EARTH SCIENCE,
EARTH SCIENCE,
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > WETLANDS > MARSHES,
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > REEF > OYSTER REEF,
ECOSYSTEMS,
ECOSYSTEMS,
ESTUARY,
Federal resource managers,
Florida,
GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES,
Gulf of Mexico,
LAND SURFACE,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Louisiana,
MANGROVE SWAMP,
MARINE ECOSYSTEMS,
MARSHES,
Mangrove,
Mississippi,
Oyster Reef,
State agencies,
TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS,
Texas,
Tidal Emergent Marsh,
WETLANDS,
american oystercatcher,
black skimmer,
blue crab,
clapper rail,
eastern oysters,
environment,
kemp's ridley sea turtle,
mottled duck,
red drum,
roseate spoonbill,
spotted seatrout,
wilson's plover, Fewer tags
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This dataset is a compilation of completed, in progress, and planned restoration projects identified in the study area by the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) Project Tracker as of March 2022. The goal of compiling projects and information was to identify target resources and impacts of these projects in the study area. Projects were screened for action types, completion year, and resources intended to benefit from restoration in barrier island and shoreline systems. In addition, system components of structure and function were identified. The potential for geomorphological impacts was categorized among different types of projects.
Categories: Data;
Tags: Barrier Island,
biota,
cumulative effects,
dune restoration,
ecosystem resilience, All tags...
ecosystem restoration,
environment,
erosion control and restoration,
natural resource management,
shore,
wetland restoration, Fewer tags
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Barrier islands protect mainland areas from storm surge, but can erode over time and require restoration. Ship Island, a barrier island off the coast of Mississippi, provides an example of this: the island was battered by Hurricane Camille in 1969 and split into two separate islands. As part of the Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to use approximately 22 million cubic yards of sand to close the gap between East and West Ship Islands. This will restore both the island’s physical integrity and habitat for important species such as sea turtles, shorebirds, and Gulf sturgeon. This project served as a case study to test the usefulness of structured decision-making – a...
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2013,
CASC,
Completed,
Data Visualization & Tools,
Data Visualization & Tools, All tags...
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Extreme Weather,
Extreme Weather,
Landscapes,
Landscapes,
Other Landscapes,
Other Landscapes,
Projects by Region,
Science Tools For Managers,
Science Tools for Managers,
Science Tools for Managers,
Sea-Level Rise and Coasts,
Sea-Level Rise and Coasts,
Southeast,
Southeast CASC,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Water, Coasts and Ice, Fewer tags
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Vulnerability assessments combine quantitative and qualitative evaluations of the exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity of species or natural communities to current and future threats. When combined with the economic, ecological or evolutionary value of the species, vulnerability assessments quantify the relative risk to regional species and natural communities and can enable informed prioritization of conservation efforts. Vulnerability assessments are common practice in conservation biology, including the potential impacts of future climate scenarios. However, geographic variation in scenarios and vulnerabilities is rarely quantified. This gap is particularly limiting for informing ecosystem management...
Categories: Data,
Publication;
Types: Citation,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Academics & scientific researchers,
Conservation NGOs,
EARTH SCIENCE,
EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > SOCIAL BEHAVIOR > VULNERABILITY LEVELS/INDEX,
LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags...
Publication,
State agencies,
biota,
completed,
environment, Fewer tags
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