Coastal Conservation and Restoration

Crassostrea virginica dredge efficiency in Texas estuaries

Pollack, Jennifer Beseres; Palmer, Terence A. (Experimental Results, 2019-11-22)

Quantifying and comparing stocks of oysters (Crassostrea virginica) within and among estuaries across the Gulf of Mexico is difficult because the sampling equipment used is either inconsistent among studies, or inefficient. ...
Long-term changes in contamination and macrobenthic communities adjacent to McMurdo Station, Antarctica

Palmer, Terence A.; Klein, Andrew G.; Sweet, Stephen T.; Montagna, Paul A.; Hyde, Larry J.; Sericano, Jose; Wade, Terry L.; Kennicutt II, Mahlon C.; Pollack, Jennifer Beseres (Science of the Total Environment, 2020-10-08)

Improved waste management at McMurdo Station, Antarctica beginning in the 1980s has been followed by decreases in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) and metal contamination in the adjacent marine sediments. However, ...
Response of macrobenthic communities to changes in water quality in a subtropical, microtidal estuary (Oso Bay, Texas)

de Santiago, Kevin; Palmer, Terence A.; Wetz, Michael S.; Pollack, Jennifer Beseres (Experimental Results, 2020-09-18)

The influence of nutrient loading and other anthropogenic stressors is thought to be greater in low inflow, microtidal estuaries, where there is limited water exchange. This 11-month study compared spatial changes in ...