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This map depicts land use in the Upper Mississippi River River sub-basin, one of the five major sub-basins of the Mississippi River.
Upper Mississippi River River sub-basin land use
Conceptual diagram illustrating tabulated Best Management Practices (BMPs).
Best Management Practices (BMPs)
Conceptual diagram illustrating impervious and pervious surfaces.
Impervious versus pervious surfaces
Conceptual diagram illustrating Regenerative stormwater conveyance systems (RSC).
Regenerative stormwater conveyance systems (RSC)
Conceptual diagram illustrating the nitrogen cycle, including the Haber-Bosch process.
The nitrogen cycle with Haber-Bosch process
Conceptual diagram illustrating preparations for the effects of climate change: Elevating and moving houses and utilities away from flood plain boundaries make them less vulnerable to storms and may lower flood insurance rates. Rather than building a concrete levy to protect property, consider a natural shoreline that offers the same benefit.
Adaptation to Climate Change
Conceptual diagram illustrating preparations for the effects of climate change: In an area where all of the organisms are alike, it is possible to lose an entire population due to a single pest infestation. Landscape with a variety of native, drought-resistant plants to support biodiversity and resilient backyard communities.
Biodiversity for Climate Change
Conceptual diagram illustrating the mean sea level trends at Ocean City, MD and Norfolk, VA. Source: tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov
Local Sea Level Trends
What you can do to prepare for climate change diagram from
Prepare for climate change
Conceptual diagram illustrating the eight key recommendations to assist those working towards creating functioning Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).
Recommendations for becoming a functioning Marine…
Conceptual diagram illustrating a hardened shoreline vs a natural shoreline. The hardened shoreline has concrete rip-rap or a sea wall. It can be very costly and can also interrupt natural shoreline processes and sand movement that can lead to increased erosion downdrift from the structure. A natural shoreline incorporates native vegetation with a buffer strip of sand and/or fiber logs. It filters runoff and traps sediment, actually widening the beach, and providing valuable shoreline habitat for wildlife.
Shoreline erosion control
Diagram showing example indicators for nearshore marine habitat in the Pacific, including coral cover, coral health, fish biomass, fish richness, and water quality.
Diagram showing example indicators for nearshore…
Diagram showing key threats to Pacific Island nations.
Diagram showing key threats to Pacific Island…
Conceptual digram illustrating a rain barrel design to stop sediment and nutrients from running off property into storm drains.
Rain barrel
Conceptual diagram illustrating Alligator Reef, which is limited in growth by the amount of exposed Pleistocene bedrock. The washing effect of water through the tidal pass has exposed peat and sandy sediments upon which coral reefs cannot become established.
Alligator Reef growth limitation
Conceptual diagram illustrating the biomagnification of mercury within the aquatic food chain.
Biomagnification of mercury within aquatic food…
Conceptual diagram illustrating a stake with an attached roosting block placed in an area with damaged seagrasses. Roosting birds defecate into the water adding nutrients that stimulate seagrass growth and recovery across the damaged area.
Bird stake installation
Conceptual diagram illustrating the life cycle of the black salt marsh mosquito.
Black salt marsh mosquito life cycle
Conceptual diagram illustrating how seagrass communities fix carbon from seawater using light energy from the sun and produce carbon sources that fuel the seagrass food web. leaves, detritus and animals exported from seagrass beds are a
Carbon fixation by seagrass communities
Conceptual diagram illustrating cesspool seepage into a residential canal prior to improved wastewater treatment.
Cesspool seepage prior to improved wastewater…
Conceptual diagram illustrating density and change in species of seagrasses in Florida Bay following long-term (left column) and short-term (right column) fertilization after the installation of bird roosting stakes in a turtle grass bed.
Change in seagrasses after bird stake installation
Conceptual diagram illustrating changes in seagrasses in Johnson Key Basin, Western Florida Bay, and the relative coverage of seagrass species.
Changes in seagrass in Johnson Key Basin
Conceptual diagram illustrating the processes in which oceanographic data are collected.
Collecting oceanographic data
Conceptual diagram illustrating the development of land from the Permian Period (299-251 million years ago [mya]), to the present.
Continental development
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