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John Day, Reed Goodman, Zhongyuan Chen, Rachael Hunter, Liviu Giosan and Yanna Wang
Due to increasing water use, diversion and salinization, along with subsidence and sea-level rise, deltas in arid regions are shrinking worldwide. Some of the most ecologically important arid deltas include the Colorado, Indus, Nile, and Tigris-Euphrates...
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John W. Day, H. C. Clark, Chandong Chang, Rachael Hunter and Charles R. Norman
Oil and gas (O&G) activity has been pervasive in the Mississippi River Delta (MRD). Here we review the life cycle of O&G fields in the MRD focusing on the production history and resulting environmental impacts and show how cumulative impacts affe...
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John Day, Eduard Grasa and Peyman Teymoori
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G. Paul Kemp, John W. Day, Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia and Natalie S. Peyronnin
Deltas and estuaries built by the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River (MAR) in the United States and the Usumacinta/Grijalva River (UGR) in Mexico account for 80 percent of all Gulf of Mexico (GoM) coastal wetlands outside of Cuba. They rank first and second i...
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John W. Day, Jaye E. Cable, Robert R. Lane, G. Paul Kemp
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During the 1927 Mississippi flood, the levee was dynamited downstream of New Orleans creating a 2 km wide crevasse that inundated the Breton Sound estuary and deposited a crevasse splay of about 130 km2. We measured sediment deposition in the splay that ...
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Rachael G. Hunter, John W. Day, Gary P. Shaffer, Robert R. Lane, Andrew J. Englande, Robert Reimers, Demetra Kandalepas, William B. Wood, Jason N. Day, Eva Hillmann
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The Central Wetlands Unit (CWU), covering 12,000 hectares in St. Bernard and Orleans Parishes, Louisiana, was once a healthy baldcypress?water tupelo swamp and fresh and low salinity marsh before construction of levees isolated the region from Mississipp...
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Gary P. Shaffer, John W. Day, Demetra Kandalepas, William B. Wood, Rachael G. Hunter, Robert R. Lane, Eva R. Hillmann
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The Maurepas swamp is the second largest contiguous coastal forest in Louisiana but it is highly degraded due to subsidence, near permanent flooding, nutrient starvation, nutria herbivory, and saltwater intrusion. Observed tree mortality rates at study s...
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Kristina M. McNyset, Carol J. Volk and Chris E. Jordan
Although water temperature is important to stream biota, it is difficult to collect in a spatially and temporally continuous fashion. We used remotely-sensed Land Surface Temperature (LST) data to estimate mean daily stream temperature for every confluen...
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Matthew Moerschbaecher and John W. Day Jr.
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Matthew Moerschbaecher and John W. Day, Jr.
Higher education institutions play a leading role in sustainability efforts nationwide. Not only do these institutions require large quantities of energy to function but also their research role often lays the groundwork for social transformation. The pu...
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