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Not really what Core Banks looks like, but a fun sticker.
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The New River Estuary on a budget
We collected 8 cores from the New River Estuary to help our colleagues at VIMS and UCONN derive a carbon budget for the estuary. Cores were collected using the R/V Jenny and transported to IMS for subsampling. Brent McKee will … Continue reading
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Research progresses at an oyster’s pace
Understanding how oyster reefs grow is important for restoration and predicting oyster-reef response to accelerated sea-level rise, degrading water quality, and harvesting. In an attempt to map small-scale changes in oyster-reef morphology we are experimenting with terrestrial LIDAR. Click on … Continue reading
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Imaging buried reefs in the North River Estuary
We know there is a buried oyster reef below the bay floor because we sampled it in a core, but how large is the reef and how rapidly did it grow? To help answer that question, Justin and I embarked … Continue reading
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Field trip with PBS QUEST
QUEST joined us in Back Sound, a shallow body of water behind Shackleford Banks, North Carolina, to learn about our work with oyster reefs. We were laser scanning a natural reef that formed on a sandflat in an area that … Continue reading
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Tagged North Carolina, oyster reef, QUEST, Shackleford Banks
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Oyster-reef burial…by wind-blown sand
Last week Ethan, Justin, and Taylor visited that washover fan on Onslow Beach that formed during Hurricane Irene to measure aeolian transport during a wind event. They noticed that backbarrier marsh and oyster reefs were being buried by wind-blown sand. … Continue reading
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Tagged aeolian, Hurricane Irene, marsh, Onslow Beach, oyster reef, saltmarsh, washover
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Tropical Storm Andrea
This is what the beach at Pine Knoll Shores (Bogue Banks, NC) looked like around 6 pm on June 7 as the storm passed by.
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Lots of Coring at Onslow Beach
This week we were collecting transects of cores across Onslow Beach, NC to measure the thickness and carbon content of peat and organic-rich sediment preserved below the island and accreting in the backbarrier. Taylor Bennett, an undergraduate student from Mount … Continue reading
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Measuring Marsh Accretion using Pb-210
Ethan is exploring new ways of estimating carbon budgets for saltmarshes as part of our paper-writing working group (with the Fodrie Lab) that meets every Monday afternoon (and for his dissertation). We needed some help measuring rates of marsh … Continue reading
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Roanoke floodplain and delta
On Tuesday May 14 we visited the Roanoke River to collect some data with Anna for her dissertation. Anna is interested in better understanding the connectivity between the river channel and floodplain in terms of exchanging particles. We have three … Continue reading
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