Researchers Plan Environmental Observatory to Track Impacts of Climate Change in the Lower Mississippi River Delta
Friday, June 19, 2009 - 12:35
in Earth & Climate
Tulane University researchers and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are planning to develop an "environmental observatory" in the lower delta of the Mississippi River to study the impacts of climate change on this region of wetlands and waterways that is vulnerable to devastating storms such as 2005's Hurricane Katrina.