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Field Testing of a Physical/Biological Monitoring Methodology for Offshore Dredging and Mining Operations
Diaz, Robert J. Wikel, G. L. Browder, A. G. Maa, J. P.Y. Milligan, Donna A. Hardaway, C. Scott Tallent, C. O. McNinch, J. E. Ha, H. K. Nestlerode, J. A.
Diaz, Robert J.
Wikel, G. L.
Browder, A. G.
Maa, J. P.Y.
Milligan, Donna A.
Hardaway, C. Scott
Tallent, C. O.
McNinch, J. E.
Ha, H. K.
Nestlerode, J. A.
Abstract
The concept of a monitoring protocol for the environmentally sound management of federal offshore borrow areas along the U.S. east and Gulf of Mexico coasts is complex. In 2001 Research Planning, Inc. et al. developed such a protocol for the Minerals Management Service (MMS). The proposed protocol addressed six issues: 1: Bathymetric and Substrate Surveys 2: Sediment Sampling and Analysis 3: Wave Monitoring and Modeling 4: Shoreline Monitoring and Modeling 5: Benthic Communities and Their Trophic Relationships to Fish 6: Marine Mammal and Wildlife Interactions During Dredging. The procedures, techniques, and tools advanced to examine these issues are fully appropriate for use in the study of each of the issues at specific sites and, if adopted as a mandatory element of dredging projects, should provide robust datasets. Includes Chapters: Benthic Resources and Habitats at the Sandbridge Borrow Area: A Test of Monitoring Protocols X-band Radar Wave Observation System Beach Nourishment Monitoring Protocol and Assessment of the Subaerial and Nearshore Region of Sandbridge, Virginia
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2006-07-01
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Research and Technical Reports, Ocean mining, Beach Nourishment, Shoreline Management, Sandbridge Beach, Virginia
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https://doi.org/10.21220/m2-8bmz-5b52