57746
Protecting Alabama's Water Quality through Marsh Restoration - NERRS/NSC(NERRS Science Collaborative)
Data Set
Published / External
47021
NERRS
Project
Completed
In coastal Alabama, stormwater runs off the land into coastal waters, carrying with it a variety of pollutants and disease-causing microbes that degrade water quality and threaten human health. Fully restored coastal marshes with complete plant cover are able to absorb up to 80 percent of the nitrogen pollution in this runoff. Less is known, however, about the capacity of marshes at different stages of restoration to improve water quality.
A team led by the Weeks Bay Reserve and University of Alabama addressed this gap by working with stakeholders to assess the ability and cost-effectiveness of marsh restoration designs, at varying stages of recovery, to remove nitrogen pollution from stormwater runoff.
Project Lead and Contact:
Scott Phipps, Week Bay NERR, scott.phipps@dcnr.alabama.gov
Project Type: Collaborative Research
Theme
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > ESTUARY
Theme
habitat restoration
Theme
nitrogen
Theme
nonpoint source pollution
Theme
restoration
Theme
stormwater
Theme
water quality
Spatial
Weeks Bay, AL
Data Set
None Planned
The distributor does not assume liability.
Metadata Contact
2017-10-31
Person
Cothran, Jeremy
jeremy.cothran@gmail.com
Ground Condition
-87.855
-87.77
30.477
30.305
Weeks Bay, AL NERR
Range
2012-10-01
2015-02-01
Unclassified
None
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http://www.nerrssciencecollaborative.org/project/Phipps12
Online Resource
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Jeremy Cothran
2019-09-25T12:27:16
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2019-11-01
Office for Coastal Management
OCM
1002
Public
No
2019-11-01
1 Year
2020-11-01