Environmental flow requirements of estuaries: providing resilience to current and future climate and direct anthropogenic changes

D Chilton, DP Hamilton, I Nagelkerken… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Estuaries host unique biodiversity and deliver a range of ecosystem services at the interface
between catchment and the ocean. They are also among the most degraded ecosystems on …

Ocean acidification in the Gulf of Mexico: Drivers, impacts, and unknowns

E Osborne, X Hu, ER Hall, K Yates… - Progress in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ocean acidification (OA) has resulted in global-scale changes in ocean chemistry, which
can disturb marine organisms and ecosystems. Despite its extensively populated coastline …

Recent increases of rainfall and flooding from tropical cyclones (TCs) in North Carolina (USA): implications for organic matter and nutrient cycling in coastal …

HW Paerl, NS Hall, AG Hounshell, KL Rossignol… - Biogeochemistry, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Coastal North Carolina experienced 36 tropical cyclones (TCs), including three
floods of historical significance in the past two decades (Hurricanes Floyd-1999, Matthew …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and putative PAH-degrading bacteria in Galveston Bay, TX (USA), following Hurricane Harvey (2017)

HP Bacosa, J Steichen, M Kamalanathan… - … Science and Pollution …, 2020 - Springer
Hurricane Harvey was the wettest hurricane in US history bringing record rainfall and
widespread flooding in Houston, TX. The resulting storm-and floodwaters largely emptied …

Tropical cyclones: what are their impacts on phytoplankton ecology?

PA Thompson, HW Paerl, L Campbell… - Journal of Plankton …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Following the passage of a tropical cyclone (TC) the changes in temperature, salinity,
nutrient concentration, water clarity, pigments and phytoplankton taxa were assessed at 42 …

Hydrodynamic responses of estuarine bays along the Texas-Louisiana coast during Hurricane Harvey

W Huang, F Ye, YJ Zhang, J Du, K Park, HC Yu… - Ocean Modelling, 2024 - Elsevier
Hurricane Harvey (2017) delivered an extraordinarily large amount of freshwater, sediment,
and pollutants to the Texas-Louisiana (TX-LA) coastal ocean. While the impact of extreme …

Functionally diverse microbial communities show resilience in response to a record-breaking rain event

JR Walker, AC Woods, MK Pierce… - ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Estuaries provide many ecosystem services and host a majority of the world's population.
Here, the response of microbial communities after a record-breaking flood event in a highly …

Tropical cyclone-induced coastal acidification in Galveston Bay, Texas

TL Hicks, KEF Shamberger, JN Fitzsimmons… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Intense rainfall from tropical cyclones has the potential to induce coastal acidification, which
will become more common and severe as climate change continues. We collected …

Connecting coastal wetland microbial community characteristics with soil physicochemical properties across an estuarine salinity and vegetation gradient in Mobile …

EA Weingarten, CM Jung, FH Crocker… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Coastal wetlands provide a variety of ecological functions that sustain biodiverse habitats,
serve as barriers to storm surge, regulate biogeochemical cycles, and yield ecosystem …

[HTML][HTML] Dissolved organic carbon dynamics and fluxes in Mississippi-Atchafalaya deltaic system impacted by an extreme flood event and hurricanes: a multi-satellite …

B Liu, EJ D'Sa, F Messina, MM Baustian… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Transport of riverine and wetland-derived dissolved organic carbon (DOC) spanning tidal
wetlands, estuaries, and continental shelf waters functionally connects terrestrial and …