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Nina S.-N. Lam, Y. Jun Xu, Kam-biu Liu, David E. Dismukes, Margaret Reams, R. Kelley Pace, Yi Qiang, Siddhartha Narra, Kenan Li, Thomas A Bianchette, Heng Cai, Lei Zou and Volodymyr Mihunov
A pressing question facing the Mississippi River Delta (MRD), like many deltaic communities around the world, is: Will the system be sustainable in the future given the threats of sea level rise, land loss, natural disasters, and depleting natural resour...
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Thomas A. Bianchette, Kam-biu Liu, Yi Qiang, Nina S.-N. Lam
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The wetlands of the southern Louisiana coast are disappearing due to a host of environmental stressors. Thus, it is imperative to analyze the spatial and temporal variability of wetland vertical accretion rates. A key question in accretion concerns the r...
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Lei Zou, Joshua Kent, Nina S.-N. Lam, Heng Cai, Yi Qiang and Kenan Li
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High subsidence rates, along with eustatic sea-level change, sediment accumulation and shoreline erosion have led to widespread land loss and the deterioration of ecosystem health around the Lower Mississippi River Basin (LMRB). A proper evaluation of th...
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Heng Cai, Nina S.-N. Lam, Lei Zou, Yi Qiang, Kenan Li
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This paper presents an assessment of community resilience to coastal hazards in the Lower Mississippi River Basin (LMRB) region in southeastern Louisiana. The assessment was conducted at the census block group scale. The specific purpose of this study wa...
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Mary Paille, Margaret Reams, Jennifer Argote, Nina S.-N. Lam, Ryan Kirby
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Residents of south Louisiana face a range of increasing, climate-related flood exposure risks that could be reduced through local floodplain management and hazard mitigation planning. A major incentive for community planning to reduce exposure to flood r...
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