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Why the Master Plan will not protect Louisiana and what we should do instead
Coastal Louisiana is disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico. While the media focuses on the loss of land, polls of residents indicate that the real concern is the flood risk to the communities, farms, and businesses in southern Louisiana. The Louisiana…
Louisiana Coastal Land Loss Since 1956
Land Area Change in Coastal Louisiana After the 2005 Hurricanes: A Historical Perspective (from 1956) – Full Size Poster This map only shows land as lost when it is turned to open water. There are large areas of land, such…
Mississippi Delta Subsidence in Action – Fort Proctor
Photo by Marli Miller – marlimillerphoto.com A visualization of century-scale impacts of subsidence and sea level rise as seen in a time sequence reconstruction at Fort Proctor in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana by Chris McLindon Fort Proctor is a pre-civil war…
Subsidence on the Louisiana Coast
Also see: Faulting on the Louisiana Coast, Subsidence, Faults Subsidence – General
Progress Report: Subsidence in the Central Valley, California
Progress Report: Subsidence in the Central Valley, California Tom G Farr, Cathleen Jones, Zhen Liu Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Executive summary Subsidence caused by groundwater pumping in the Central Valley has been a problem for decades. Over…
Sinking Cities – Global Cities Sinking into the Ocean
Sinking cities An integrated approach towards solutions (2013). In many coastal and delta cities land subsidence exceeds absolute sea level rise up to a factor of ten. Without action, parts of Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok and numerous other…
Faulting on the Louisiana Coast
Also see: Faults Basement Controls on Subsurface Geologic Patterns and Coastal Geomorphology across the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Implications for Subsidence Studies and Coastal Restoration, by Bryan P. Stephens. A self-narrated, animated slide-show of his award-winning paper (AAPG paper of…
Natural Cycles and the Mississippi Delta – A Voice Annotated Slideshow
Virtual Guest Lecturer. Using Natural Cycles to Make Better Decisions about Adaptation to Climate Change: The Future of the Louisiana Coast. Mercer Law School, March 2015 – YouTube The slides
The Delta Cycle and the Future of Coastal Louisiana
Chris McLindon and Edward Richards – Board of Commissioners of SLFPA-E vs. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., et.al. – Legal and Geological Evaluation (View in slide show mode to see the animations.) This is a summary presentation of the issues: Time and River:Coastal…