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2022 Annual Report

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Mapping methane reduction potential of tidal wetland restoration in the United States

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Opportunities to improve alignment with the FAIR Principles for U.S. Geological Survey data

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Herring River, Wellfleet, MA

Calibrating optical turbidity measurements with suspended-sediment concentrations from the Herring River in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, from November 2018 to November 2019

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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center—2022 Annual Report.  The 2022 annual report highlights accomplishments, includes a list of publications, and summarizes the work of the center and each of the science groups.

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Morphology and stratal geometry of the Antarctic continental shelf: Insights from models

Reconstruction of past ice-sheet fluctuations from the stratigraphy of glaciated continental shelves requires understanding of the relationships among the stratal geometry, glacial and marine sedimentary processes, and ice dynamics. We investigate the formation of the morphology and the broad stratal geometry of topsets on the Antarctic continental shelf with numerical models. Our models assume th
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Alan K. Cooper, Peter F. Barker, Giuliano Brancolini
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Preliminary results of the first scientific Drilling on Lake Baikal, Buguldeika site, southeastern Siberia

The Baikal Drilling Project (BDP) is a multinational effort to investigate the paleoclimatic history and tectonic evolution of the Baikal sedimentary basin during the Late Neogene. In March 1993 the Baikal drilling system was successfuly deployed from a barge frozen into position over a topographic high, termed the Buguldeika saddle, in the southern basin of Lake Baikal. The BDP-93 scientific team
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Douglas F. Williams, S. Colman, M. Grachev, P. Hearn, Shoji Horie, T. Kawai, Mikhail I. Kuzmin, N. Logachov, V. Antipin, A. Bardardinov, A. Bucharov, V. Fialkov, A. Gorigljad, B. Tomilov, B.N. Khakhaev, S. Kochikov, N. Logachev, L.A. Pevzner, E.B. Karabanov, V. Mats, E. Baranova, O. Khlystov, E. Khrachenko, M. Shimaraeva, E. Stolbova, S. Efremova, A. Gvozdkov, A. Kravchinski, J. Peck, T. Fileva, S. Kashik, T. Khramtsova, I. Kalashnikova, T. Rasskazova, V. Tatarnikova, Richard Yuretich, V. Mazilov, K. Takemura, V. Bobrov, T. Gunicheva, H. Haraguchi, S. Ito, T. Kocho, M. Markova, V. Pampura, O. Proidakova, R. Ishiwatari, H. Sawatari, A. Takeuchi, K. Toyoda, S. Vorobieva, A. Ikeda, A. Marui, T. Nakamura, K. Ogura, Takeshi Ohta, J. King, H. Sakai, T. Yokoyama, A. Hayashida, E. Bezrukova, S. Fowell, N. Fujii, P. Letunova, V. Misharina, N. Miyoshi, G. Chernyaeva, I. Ignatova, E. Likhoshvai, L. Granina, O. Levina, P. Dolgikh, F. Lazo, N. Lutskaia, W. Orem, E. Wada, K. Yamada, S. Yamada, E. Callander, L. Golobokoval, W. C. Pat Shanks, R. Dorofeeva, A. Duchkov
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Science in the Gulf of Maine: Directions for the 1990's

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Bradford Butman, Robert C. Beardsley
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Offset-vertical seismic profiling for marine gas hydrate exploration: Is it a suitable technique? First results from ODP Leg 164

Walkaway vertical seismic profiles were acquired during Ocean Drilling Project (ODP) Leg 164 at the Blake Ridge to investigate seismic properties of hydrate-bearing sediments and the zone of free gas beneath them. An evaluation of compressional (P-) wave arrivals Site 994 indicates P-wave anisotrophy in the sediment column. We identified several shear (S-) wave arrivals in the horizontal component
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I.A. Pecher, W.S. Holbrook, R.A. Stephen, H. Hoskins, D. Lizarralde, D. R. Hutchinson, W.T. Wood
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Modeling waves and circulation in Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana

The U.S. Geological Survey is conducting a study of storm-driven sediment resuspension and transport in Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. Two critical processes related to sediment transport in the lake are (1) the resuspension of sediments due to wind-generated storm waves and (2) the movement of resuspended material by lake currents during storm wind events. The potential for sediment resuspension
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Richard P. Signell, Jeffrey H. List
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Lateral trapping of sediment in partially mixed estuary

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W. R. Geyer, R. P. Signell, G. C. Kineke
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Reply to comment by R. Anderson on "Uranium-series disequilibrium, sedimentation, diatom frustules, and paleoclimate change in Lake Baikal"

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D. N. Edgington, J. A. Robbins, S.M. Colman, K. A. Orlandini, M. P. Gustin, J. V. Klump, L. Z. Granina
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Coupled physical-biological models for the study of harmful algal blooms

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Peter J.S. Franks, Richard P. Signell
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Effects of bottom fishing on the benthic megafauna of Georges Bank

This study addresses ongoing concerns ever the effects of mobile fishing gear on benthic communities. Using side-scan sonar, bottom photographs and fishing records, we identified a set of disturbed and undisturbed sites on the gravel pavement area of northern Georges Bank in the northwest Atlantic. Replicate samples of the megofauna were collected with a 1 m Naturalists' dredge on 2 cruises in 199
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J.S. Collie, G.A. Escanero, P. C. Valentine
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

The wind-forced response on a buoyant coastal current: Observations of the western Gulf of Maine plume

The Freshwater plume in the western Gulf of Maine is being studied as part of an interdisciplinary investigation of the physical transport of a toxic alga. A field program was conducted in the springs of 1993 and 1994 to map the spatial and temporal patterns of salinity, currents and algal toxicity. The observations suggest that the plume's cross-shore structure varies markedly as a function of fl
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D.A. Fong, W.R. Geyer, R. P. Signell
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Lignin phenols in sediments of Lake Baikal, Siberia: Application to paleoenvironmental studies

Sediments from three cores obtained from distinct depositional environments in Lake Baikal, Siberia were analyzed for organic carbon, total nitrogen and lignin phenol concentration and composition. Results were used to examine changes in paleoenvironmental conditions during climatic cycles of the late Quaternary (< 125 ka). Average organic carbon, and total nitrogen concentrations, atomic C/N rati
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W. H. Orem, Steven M. Colman, H.E. Lerch
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Comparison of satellite-derived with ground-based measurements of the fluctuations of the margins of Vatnajökull, Iceland, 1973–92

Vatnajökull, Iceland, is the Earth’s most studied ice cap and represents a classical glaciological field site on the basis of S. Pálsson’s seminal glaciological field research in the late 18th century. Since the 19th century, Vatnajökull has been the focus of an array of glaciological studies by scientists from many nations, including many remote-sensing investigations since 1951. Landsat-derived
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Richard S. Williams, Dorothy K. Hall, Oddur Sigurðsson, Janet Y.L. Chien
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center