Northern Gulf of Mexico (NGOM) Ecosystem Change and Hazard Susceptibility

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Northern Gulf of Mexico (NGOM) Ecosystem Change and Hazard Suseptibility Project - Overview
Introduction Statement of Problem Goals and Objectives Organization and Approach

Organization and Approach:

Scientific investigations are organized into three tasks that are distinguished by time scale, with the implication that the later tasks, focused on the present and future, are the most interdisciplinary.

The four project tasks are:

  • Task 1: NGOM project and information management
  • Task 2: Holocene evolution of NGOM coast climate, geomorphology, and sea-level
  • Task 3: Decadal - century scale evolution of NGOM coast climate, ecosystems, and landforms
  • Task 4: 21st century NGOM coast landscape and human community structure

The project study region covers the central northern Gulf of Mexico coastal margins of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama between Sabine Lake and Perdido Bay and extends seaward to the 100 meter isobath at the continental shelf edge. Landward, the study region covers the low relief Gulf Coastal Plain underlain by Holocene and Pleistocene sediments to roughly just north of the Pleistocene – Pliocene unconformity outcrop.

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Task 1: Project Management
Task 2: Holocene Evolution
2.1: Eastern Louisiana
2.2: Mississippi-Alabama
2.3: Climate Variability
2.4: Mississippi River Delta
Task 3: Recent Evolution
3.1: Climate Vulnerabaility
3.2: Geochemistry
3.3: Land Cover Change
3.4: Barrier Islands
3.5: Mississippi Delta
Task 4: 21st Century
4.1: Landscape Structure
4.2: Geomorphology
4.3: Landscape Modeling
4.4: Hazard Vulnerability
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