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COAST
& SEA 2000
| Spring
2000 |
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- The
Oyster Industry: Seizing a Better Future
This unique industry faces serious challenges. What challenges
have they overcome and which do they now face, at the beginning
of a new millennium?
- DermoWatch
Description of a new computerized predictive model to help
oyster growers predict incidences of a persistent saltwater
parasite that is deadly to the product. This is a multistate
research project designed to identify infected stock and
predict the time a grower has to move his stock to avoid
further contamination.
- One
Solution to Roadway Pollution
The annual level of pollution from roadway storm water runoff
actually exceeds that from untreated domestic and industrial
wastewater. Researchers are developing a recirculating filter
process to trap the heavy metals and other pollutants in
roadway runoff that currently pours directly into estuaries
from causeways and long highway bridges.
- Predicting
Storm-Induced Floods - Science in the 21st Century
Floods from rising rivers have been predictable for many
years, but those resulting from hurricanes and other storms
have not. New technological advances now provide officials
with predictive computer models to rapidly identify the
most likely locations of floods from a specific storm, saving
lives and, in the long run, providing data for better coastal
zone and emergency planning.
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| Fall
2000 |
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- Coastal
Louisiana Shaped by Oil and Gas
Oil and Gas have reshaped Louisiana’s land, marshes,
and water bottoms as well as people’s attitudes and
lives.
- Wastewater
Treatment: a Coastal Challenge
One of Louisiana’s most pressing problems, wastewater
treatment, is a challenge because of the state’s unusual
geography.
- From
Lame Duck to Swan: Coastal Tourism Comes Into Its Own
It wasn’t until the oil bust of the mid 1980s when
people, out of jobs, began to leave the state in droves
that Louisiana’s coastal communities stopped ignoring
the economic potential of tourism.
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