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Alabama-Mississippi Bays and Bayous Symposium Book of Abstracts Nov. 28-29, 2018 • Arthur R. Outlaw Convention Center • Mobile, AL Abstracts All abstracts from the 2018 Bays and Bayous Symposium are listed alphabetically in the Table of Contents by title within its appropriate track (Habitats, Water Quality, Resilience, Living Resources, Oil Spill, and Outreach and Education). Both poster and oral presentations are listed together but indicated as either poster or oral on both the Table of Contents and abstract text. Only presenting authors are listed with the abstract title in the Table of Contents, but all presentation authors are included with the abstract text, with presenting authors indicated by an asterisk (*). Table of Contents HABITATS Assessing Ecosystem Services Supply for Restoration Scenarios (Oral) Richard Fulford - U. S. EPA Channel Width as a Proxy for Wave Climate (Poster) Andrew Lucore - Mississippi State University Characterization of Marsh Spit Hydrographic Variability in Relation to Marsh Vegetation Type (Oral) John Lehrter - University of South Alabama; Dauphin Island Sea Lab Conceptualizing Human Alteration and Natural Growth in Estuaries and Savannas (CH∆NGES) (Poster) Sandra Huynh - Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Conserving Coastal Alabama (Oral) Walter Ernest - Pelican Coast Conservancy Cut it, Spray it, and Burn it: Landscape-Scale Restoration of Wet Pine Savanna in the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve & Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge (Poster) Jonathan Pitchford - Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Design of a Long-Term Monitoring Program for a Living Shoreline Project in Hancock County, MS (Oral) Sarah Ballard - Anchor QEA LLC Design Considerations for Enhancing Nutrient Removal in Restored Marshes (Oral) Just Cebrian - Dauphin Island Sea Lab; University of South Alabama Detecting Coastal Marsh Change from Aerial Imagery: Pascagoula River Estuary, 1955-2014 (Poster) Margaret Waldron - University of Southern Mississippi Developing a Living Shoreline Database and Gap Analysis for Gulf of Mexico (Oral) Saranee Dutta - University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Lab Development and Evaluation of a Low-Cost Pressure Gage (Poster) Matthew Virden - Mississippi State University Dune Restoration and Enhancement for the Florida Panhandle Manual (Oral) Chris Verlinde - University of Florida; Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences; FL Sea Grant Effects of Burrow and Tube Construction by Infauna on Sound Propagation Through Marine Sediments (Oral) Kelly Dorgan - Dauphin Island Sea Lab Effects of Residential Land Use on Fish Communities and Tidal Creek Habitats of Alabama and West Florida (Oral) Christopher Anderson - Auburn University Ensuring Living Shorelines for the Long-Term Through Modeling and Maintenance: An Alabama Design Example (Poster) Kate Haynes- Moffatt & Nichol Food Web Dynamics and Trophic Interactions Associated with Pelagic Sargassum Features in the Gulf of Mexico (Oral) Zabe Premo - University of Southern Mississippi Division of Coastal Sciences Get to Know the Alabama Coastal Heritage Trust (Oral) Hank Caddell - Alabama Coastal Heritage Trust Getting Projects Shovel Ready (The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly) (Oral) Mary Kate Brown - The Nature Conservancy Graham Creek Preserve: Balancing Nature and Recreation (Oral) Leslie Gahagan - City of Foley Hardware and Software Components of an Oysters' Gape Measurement System (Oral) Austin Ukpebor- Jackson State University Hurdles for a Living Shoreline and Reef Project (Oral) Wendell Mears - Anchor QEA LLC Incident Boat Wake Energy and Implications for Restoration Design (Oral) Bret Webb - University of South Alabama Is Marsh Surface Tracking Sea Level Change? Developing Tools and Visualizations for SET Data (Oral) Kim Cressman - Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Lessons Learned in Optimizing Restoration Design (Oral) Judy Haner - The Nature Conservancy Lessons Learned in the Post-Design Phase from a Living Shoreline Along the Southern Shore of Lake Pontchartrain, LA (Oral) Chris Williams - Moffatt & Nichol Lessons Learned in the Post-Design Phase from a Living Shoreline at Lightning Point, Bayou La Batre, AL (Oral) Mindy Joiner - Moffatt & Nichol Magnitude and Fate of Sediment Loading in the Fowl River Estuary (Oral) Marlon Cook - Cook Hydrogeology, LLC Migratory Timing of Rails in Jackson County, MS (Poster) Carson Kitaif - Mississippi State University Mon Louis Island Restoration (Oral) Matthew Wahn - Thompson Engineering Optimal Portfolio Design to Manage Oyster Resources (Oral) Frederick Nyanzu - Mississippi State University "Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later:" Employing LID and GI to Avoid Future Restoration (Oral) Paul Lammers - Mobile Bay National Estuary Program Pensacola Bay Living Shoreline - Project GreenShores Site II (Oral) Erin Rooney - HDR Engineering, Inc. Pensacola Bay Living Shoreline - Project GreenShores Site II (Oral) Erin Rooney - HDR Engineering, Inc. Permitting Challenges - Mon Louis Island Restoration (Oral) Scott Jackson - Thompson Engineering Proteorhodopsin (pR) Bacteria and Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria (AAPB) Abundance in the Pensacola Bay System (Poster) Carrie Daniel - University of West Florida Center for Environmental Diagnostics and Bioremediation Recent Geologic History of Fowl River Marsh Spits Revealed Through Piston Core Geochronological and Sedimentological Analyses (Oral) Alex Beebe - University of South Alabama Regional Genetic Diversity in Spartina and Juncus with Implications for Future Salt Marsh Restoration Success (Oral) Patrick Biber - University of Southern Mississippi Restoration and Education Through Oyster Gardening (Oral) Emma Cochran - MS-AL Sea Grant Consortium; Auburn University Salinity Dynamics in Fowl River and Their Potential Impact on Marsh Health (Oral) Brian Dzwonkowski - Dauphin Island Sea Lab; University of South Alabama Salt Aire - Design & Construction of a Shoreline Restoration and Protection Project on Mobile Bay (Oral) Ryan Waldron - Neel-Schaffer, Inc. Salt Aire Shoreline Protection and Restoration (Oral) Barry Vittor - Barry A. Vittor & Associates, Inc. Sawfish CSI: Using Environmental DNA to Search for the Critically Endangered Smalltooth Sawfish in Mississippi Waters (Oral) Ryan Lehman - University of Southern Mississippi Sea Grant Offers Fellowship Opportunities for Grad Students (Poster) Melissa Schneider - MS-AL Sea Grant Consortium Shoreline Protection and Enhancement in the LaBranche Wetlands, St. Charles Parish, LA (Oral) Chris Williams - Moffatt & Nichol Shoreline Restoration and Habitat Longevity: The Lightning Point Living Shoreline Project (Oral) Kevin Hanegan - Moffatt & Nichol Student Monitoring of Deer Island (Poster) Aaron Lamey - University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Lab's Marine Education Center Sustainability of Oyster Reef Habitat in Mississippi Sound: A Larval Transport Approach (Oral) Kemal Cambazoglu - University of Southern Mississippi Testing Living Shorelines Design Assumptions: Site Specific Considerations for Boat Wake and Wind Driven Waves (Oral) Nigel Temple - Mississippi State University Vegetation, Elevation and Sediment Characteristics of Land Margins Along Fowl River, Alabama (Oral) Just Cebrian - Dauphin Island Sea Lab; University of South Alabama Vegetative Community and Health Assessment of a Constructed Juncus- dominated Salt Marsh in the Northern Gulf of Mexico (Oral) Nickolas Murphy - University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Lab WATER QUALITY A Novel Entry Pathway for Domoic Acid into the Marine Food Web (Oral) Israel Marquez - University of South Alabama; Dauphin Island Sea Lab ADEM Water Quality Monitoring Programs: Current Status (Oral) Fred Leslie - Alabama Department of Environmental Management Advanced Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling Technologies (Oral) John Curry - Hydro, LLC Aging Infrastructure and How to Keep Water Working (Oral) Charles Hyland - Mobile Area Water & Sewer System An Assessment of the Potential Effects Microplastics Have on the Commensal Flora of the Gut and How this Contributes to Colon Cancer (Poster) DeVant'e Dawson - Tuskegee University An Interactive Gulf-based Water Quality Visualization Tool for the Gulf of Mexico (Oral) Wondimagegn Beshah - Mississippi State University Apparent Oxygen Utilization of Bear Point Bayou (Poster) Anna Millender - University of Southern Mississippi Assessing Marine Debris Accumulation on an Urban Creek (Poster) Ellie Mallon - Mobile Baykeeper Biogeochemical Evaluation of Dissolved Organic Matter and Trace Elements Over an Oyster Bed in the Western Mississippi Sound Using Multivariate Statistics (Oral) Sankar Manalilkada Sasidharan - Mississippi State University Cellulose-Based Material for Removal of Microcystin from Contaminated Water Sources (Oral) Diego Gomez-Maldonado - Auburn University Citizens, Oysters and Changing the Culture through POP (Pensacola Oyster Project) (Oral) Barbara Albrecht - Panhandle Watershed Alliance Coastal Explorers: Getting the Community Involved in Coastal Education (Oral) Danielle Bailey - University of Southern Mississippi Contribution of Submarine Groundwater Discharge to Select Biogeochemical Fluxes in St. Louis Bay, Mississippi (Poster) Haley Spaid - University of Southern Mississippi Development of a Fecal Coliform Bacteria Loading Model for Fowl River Bay (Oral) David Tomasko - Environmental Science Associates (ESA) Don’t Drink the Water! 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