Ariel view of the fragile Bird's Foot Delta at the end of the Mississippi. From https://missdelta.org/the-rivers-reckoning-the-mississippi-created-louisiana-but-can-we-contend-with-its-new-era/ @MissDeltaInitiative.bsky.social

Back to Earth next week, hearing about the Mississippi's fragile projection into the Gulf of Mexico, the Bird's Foot Delta, 150km S of NOLA - #MissDelta;
Lessons of Katrina 20yrs on;
Seeing under Greenland's ice
Oldest Antarctic ice #COLDEX
& Stains of oldest life.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

New paper alert!

Silt and clay look the same combined in the estuarine mud of the Delta. But differentiating between them could help researchers understand delta dynamics

MissDelta's Giulio Mariotti may have found a way to do just that

doi.org/10.1016/j.cs...

#missdelta #scicomm #coastalscience

aerial photo of Cocodrie Louisiana and Bayou Petit Caillou

On the #MississippiDelta, towns line old and new river channels, creating a tenuous intertwining of people and water threatened by delta retreat. This is Cocodrie LA, home of #LUMCON, our state marine lab, built along the banks of Bayou Petit Caillou.
#MissDelta @lsugeology.bsky.social