Canary in the Coal Mine: Subsidence in Coastal Louisiana Press Conference Samuel Bentley, LSU Department of Geology & Geophysics professor and Billy and Ann Harrison chair in sedimentary geology Mead Allison, Tulane University Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering professor and chair and The Water Institute of the Gulf director of physical processes & sediment systems Torbjörn E. Törnqvist, Tulane University Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Vokes Geology professor Cathleen E. Jones, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology radar scientist
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Canary in the Coal Mine: Subsidence in Coastal Louisiana Press Conference
Samuel Bentley, LSU Department of Geology & Geophysics professor and Billy and Ann Harrison chair in sedimentary geology
Mead Allison, Tulane University Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering professor and chair and The Water Institute of the Gulf director of physical processes & sediment systems
Torbjörn E. Törnqvist, Tulane University Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Vokes Geology professor
Cathleen E. Jones, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology radar scientist
Samuel Bentley
Enormous Modern Changes in Coastal Land Area of Mississippi River Delta (Projections: State of Louisiana)
Large-Scale Measurements of the Earth from Space: Radar Remote Sensing
Project site
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
INSAR: Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
Airborne
NASA
UAVSAR
Photo Credit: NASA/AFRC
Measurements of subsidence in New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta
using radar interferometry (InSAR)
Jones, C. E., An, K., Blom, R. G., Kent, J. D., Ivins, E. R., Bekaert, D. (2016). Anthropogenic and geologic influences on subsidence in the vicinity of New Orleans,
Louisiana, J. Geophysical Res.-Solid Earth, 121, 3867-3887, doi:10.1002/2015JB012636.
Satellite Radar Imaging of the Mississippi River Delta