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Mobile Bay Plume Remote Sensing NASA MRC RPC 14 April 2008 Skylab Image courtesy of NASA
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Purposes: Provide ground truth sediment and salinity data from the Mobile Bay plume for testing of algorithms for remote sensing Create leveraging cross-connections between NASA projects & products and Northern Gulf Institute modeling and management initiatives Participants: McAnally & Martin, MSU Civil & Environmental Engineering Du & Topsakal, MSU Electrical & Computer Engineering Ellis, NASA Stennis Space Center Dardeau & Linn, Dauphin Island Sea Lab
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Approach: Multi-agency workshop designed field program – Nov 2007 Data Collection Cruises – Nov 2007 forward Applications of data by participants Documentation and reporting
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Samples: One-liter water samples at surface, 1m, & 2m at ~30 locations analyzed for: DOC, PC, TSS, Chloro-a Vertical Profiles: light extinction, temp, DO, conductivity, & turbidity Cruises Monthly since 11/07 Cruises
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Cruises Station #6RecordedProposed Lattitude30° 3.833'30° 3.823' Longitude88° 10.083'88° 10.045' Depth (m)22.2 Time12:39 PM 1 '6'12' Bottle #B-7A-12A-19 TSS (mg/L)7.626.0410.3 DOC (ppm)1.041.031.199 Chlorophyll (μg/L)1.731.481.68 (mg C)/L0.1630.3050.404 (mg N)/L0.0090.0220.04
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Connected Projects NASA: Regional Sediment Mgmnt (Ellis) MSU: Modeling Mobile Bay Sediment (Martin) USACE: Regional Sediment Mgmnt (Parsons) NOAA: Mercury Uptake in Fish (Evans) DISL: Oyster Reef Reconstruction (Heck) NASA: Air Deposition of Mercury (Cohen/Luke) EPA: TMDLs for Mobile Basin (Wool) NASA: Non-point Pollutant Sources (Estes)
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Modeling Mobile Bay Sediments and Pollutants with New Technologies Goals: Management model for sediment & mercury in Mobile Basin. Template for other basins. Sponsored by NGI Clay flocs (above) sorb contaminants.
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EFDC Model (courtesy EPA) Numerical Models
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ADH Model (courtesy USACE)
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Summary Data collection and compilation Remote sensing & modeling in coastal management Keyed to regional resource management Multi-agency collaboration/communication
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Contact Information W. H. McAnally mcanally@cee.msstate.edu J. L. Martin jmartin@cee.msstate.edu R. J. Moorhead rjm@gri.msstate.edu
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