Archive for July 2020

We’ve been working hard in the lab to process the cores that we collected in Great Barnstable Marsh, MA. Here are some initial field results! Figure 1: Measured elevation (North American Vertical Datum of 1988) using a Real Time Kinematic unit for the ditched and unditched marsh at 0 to 100m away from the creek.…

Check out the Geomorphology paper (Mariotti et al., 2020) that has been published based on Great Barnstable Marsh, MA model results! Abstract: Ponds are common features on salt marshes, yet it is unclear how they affect large-scale marsh evolution. We developed a spatially explicit model that combines cellular automata for pond formation, expansion, and drainage,…