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Conceptual diagram illustrating the short term and long term impacts from sea-level rise.
Flooding vs. inundation
Conceptual diagram illustrating how sea-level rise affects many aspects of a resource-based industry.
How sea-level rise affects the community
Conceptual Diagram illustrating the process that creates low oxygen levels in an estuary.
Hypoxia
Conceptual diagram illustrating the process in which wetlands migrate during sea-level rise.
Protecting wetland migration corridors
Conceptual diagram illustrating how sea-level rise floods coastal lagoons, drowns islands, and increase coastal erosion.
Sea-level rise in Maryland's coastal bays
Conceptual diagram illustrating the affects of climate change on the habitat of striped bass in a coastal/marine ecosystem.
Squeeze Zone for Striped Bass
Conceptual diagram illustrating the specifics in vulnerability in a coastal ecosystem, more specifically, the Chesapeake Bay.
Vulnerability to sea-level rise
Water pumping station in New Orleans
Levee pump station, New Orleans
An old salt mine in coastal Louisiana on a small, eroded barrier island
Abandoned salt mine
Aerial photo of small island with extensive protection barrier, showing continued erosion and movement of sand
Attempted protection of barrier island
Aerial photo showing land loss inshore of protection barriers and subsequent flooding of facilities
Barrier Island Erosion
Aerial photo of coastal protection barriers along barrier islands in coastal Louisiana
Barrier island erosion
Aerial photo of protection levees on a barrier island in Coastal Louisiana
Barrier Island protection levees
A flood protection barrier helps a small bayou community in coastal louisiana to remain amongst rapidly eroding wetlands
Bayou Community amongst eroding wetlands
Flood protection barrier near bayou town in coastal Louisiana
Bayou town in coastal Louisiana
Cleanup from Hurricane Katrina
Coastal Community in degrading wetland in coastal Louisiana
Coastal Community in degrading wetland
Coastal Community in degrading wetland in coastal Louisiana
Coastal Community in degrading wetland
Houses south of Houma
Coastal housing in Louisiana
Houses south of Houma
Coastal housing in Louisiana
Coastal marshes in Louisiana
Coastal marshes in Louisiana
Intact wetlands of coastal Louisiana
Cypress swamp
Intact wetlands of coastal Louisiana
Cypress swamp
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