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PRP Projects

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Project Title	P.I.	Begin	End	Extend	Funding
Assessing nearshore nursery habitat for rare fishes and other nekton species at the Chandeleur island: are restored habitats as good as natural habitats? [view reports]	O'Connell	10/01/05	08/31/06	-	88,713.00
Extent of lake Pontchartrain dead zones effects of anoxia on range clams and blue crabs and distribution of clams,oysters and other large bivalves in the lower basin [view reports]	Poirrier	10/01/05	08/31/06	-	90,000.00
Status, trends and restoration ecology of estuarine submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV) and seagrasses in the middle and lower Lake Pontchartrain Basin, including interactions with clams, bluecrabs, manatees and sea turtles [view reports]	Poirrier	10/01/05	08/31/06	-	90,000.00
Teacher workshops and development of digital resources at southeastern's turtle cove environmental research station: workshops, interactive tools for students and educators, and development of long-term research metadatabase	Green	10/01/05	08/31/06	-	88,399.00
Wacky wetlands weekends: training camps for young wetlands biologists [view report]	Dardis	10/01/05	08/31/06	-	9,747.00
Establishing best management practices for urban stormwater ditches in st. tammany parish to reduce nutrient and bacterial loads to Lake Pontchartrain [view report]	Fearnley	10/01/05	08/31/06	-	77,148.00
Information transfer and adaptive management: program review, 2006 basics of the basin and journal of coastal research special publication	Penland	10/01/05	08/31/06	-	73,042.00
Long and short-term relative sea-level change and subsidence within the Pontchartrain Basin [view report]	Kulp	10/01/05	08/31/06	-	75,000.00
Environmental sensitivity (ESI) and reach sensitivity (RSI) index mapping of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin, Louisiana.	Martinez	10/01/05	08/31/06	-	75,000.00
Shoreline and habitat changes of the C.I. 1950's to 2004: beach, dune, marsh, and seagrass impacts on threatened and endangered species	Martinez	10/01/05	08/31/06	-	70,000.00
Coastal wetlands education in the Lake Pontchartrain Basin [view report]	Maygarden	10/01/05	08/31/06	-	132,116.00
mapping the geomorphology and processes of accelerated coastal land loss in the Pontchartrain basin: 1932 - 2001 [view report]	Fearnley	10/01/05	08/31/06	-	49,362.00
Pontchartrain Basin Environmental Clearinghouse [view report]	Georgiou	10/01/05	08/31/06	-	130,000.00
Hydrodynamic and Salinity Modeling in the Pontchartrain basin: Assessment of Freshwater Diversion at Violet with MRGO Modifications [view report]	Georgiou	10/01/05	08/31/06	-	130,000.00
Value of north shore marshes in improving lake water quality: assessment of sustainability under increased nutrient loading and rising sea levels[view report]	Hester, Mendelssohn, Reed	10/01/05	08/31/06	-	101,000.00
Evaluating plant species in a greenhouse recirculation system and stormwater retention basin and wetlands for landscape pollution mitigation	Bagur	10/01/05	08/31/06	-	68,852.00
Total NOAA Year 4 funding	-	-	-	-	1,348,379.00

News & Events:

Developments:

Vitter's Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Act Reauthorized
Barrier Island Comprehensive MonitoringProgram (BICM)
Research and Restoration Projects

Resources:

Map Gallery
Download Data
Basin Facts
Interactive Image Processing
Environmental Atlas of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin USGS Open File Report 02*206.s

Project Partners:

Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences

University of New Orleans

Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration