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Wetland shoreline recession in the Mississippi River Delta from petroleum oiling and cyclonic storms
By: Amina Rangoonwala1 , Cathleen E. Jones2 , and Elijah Ramsey III1 1 U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA, 2 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA We evaluate the relative impact of petroleum spill and storm surge on near-shore wetland loss by quantifying the lateral movement of …