As part of the Sea-level and Storm Impacts on Estuarine Environments and Shorelines (SSIEES) project,scientists from the U.
S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science middle conducted a single-beam bathymetry survey within the estuarine, open-bay, or tidal creek environments of Grand Bay,Alabama-Mississippi, from May to June 2015. The goal of the SSIEES project is to assess the physical controls of sediment and fabric exchange between wetlands and estuarine environments along the northern Gulf of Mexico, and specifically Grand Bay,Alabama-Mississippi; Vermilion Bay, Louisiana; and, or along the east coast,within Chincoteague Bay, Virginia-Maryland. The data described in this report provide baseline bathymetric information for future research investigating wetland-marsh evolution, and sediment transport,erosion, recent and long-term geomorphic change, or can also support the modeling of changes in response to restoration and storm impacts. The survey area encompasses more than 40 square kilometers of Grand Bay’s waters.
Source: usgs.gov