Patrick S. "Shea" Penland 1954-2008
Dr. Patrick S. "Shea" Penland, one of Louisiana's leading coastal scientists and director of The University of New Orleans Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences, has died at 54.
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Teams gathering data on remains of battered islands
By Mark Schleifstein, Staff Writer, NOLA.com
July 08, 2007 - From the air, the Chandeleur islands -- a 50-mile-long nearly contiguous crescent of sand, topped in places with 18-foot dunes just a decade ago -- appear a tattered assemblage of sandy spits that poke out just a few feet from the Gulf of Mexico.Assessing the Resilience of a Vital Barrier-Island Chain—Chandeleur and Breton Islands, La
By Chandra Dreher, Jim Flocks, and Dawn Lavoie, soundwaves.usgs.gov, December 2007
The Chandeleur and Breton Islands make up a north-south-trending island chain, remnants of the St. Bernard Delta that occupied the area 2,000 years ago. The ancient delta was deposited by the Mississippi River, and its remnants lie northeast of the modern river delta. Since abandonment, the St. Bernard Delta, including the islands and the adjacent Breton Sound, has undergone erosion and subsidence.
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9th Biennial "BASIC OF THE BASIN" RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
Announcement and Call for Papers. This year the research symposium will be addressing the environmental status and restoration of the Lake Pontchartrain and Barataria Basins, in Louisiana with a session on the 2008 Bonnet Carré Spillway opening and joint Gulf Estuarine Research Society Meeting on Gulf of Mexico Estuaries and Coasts.
LOCATION: Lindy Boggs International Conference Center, University of New Orleans, New Orleans Lakefront Campus
DATE: November 5, 6 and 7, 2008
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