Merryl Alber |
Merryl Alber
Associate
Professor
Department
of Marine Sciences
University of Georgia
Expertise:
Estuarine ecology, coastal policy
Issues of Interest:
Freshwater withdrawal (instream flow); marsh hammocks; eutrophication and other water quality issues
Project Links:
Development and Analysis of Coastal Water Quality Indicators
Merryl
Alber and Joan Sheldon (Dept of Marine Sciences, Univ of Georgia, Athens) Freshwater
Inflow
Model
Development -- SqueezeBox: A Simple Tool to Understand the Impacts of River
Flow on Estuarine Salinity
Joan Sheldon and Merryl Alber (Dept of Marine
Sciences, Univ of Georgia)
Georgia
Coastal Ecosystems - Long Term Ecological Research (LTER)
Merryl
Alber, Tim Hollibaugh, Steve Pennings, Wade Sheldon, Clark Alexander, Dale Bishop, Jack Blanton,
Adrian Burd, Chris Craft, Daniela Di Iorio, Mandy
Joye, Christof Meile, Billy Moore, Brian Silliman and John Wares
Southeast Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Metadata Project
Merryl
Alber and Wade Sheldon (Dept of Marine Sciences, Univ of Georgia, Athens)
Freshwater Inflow
White
Paper -- Effects of Changing Freshwater Inflow to Estuaries: A Georgia Perspective
Merryl Alber and Janice Flory (Dept of Marine
Sciences, Univ of Georgia)
Full
paper -- PDF (opens in new window)
Special
session at Nov 2001 meeting of the Estuarine Research Federation -- "Freshwater Inflow: Science, Policy and Management"
Paul Montagna (Dept of Marine Science,
Univ of Texas), Peter Doering (South Florida Water Management District),
Merryl Alber (Dept of Marine Sciences, Univ of Georgia), and Michael Connor
(San Francisco Estuarine Institute)
Dedicated issue of the journal "Estuaries" (December 2002) drawing from the Estuarine Research Federation special session
Estuarine
Creek Fronts: Biological Interfaces Between Tidal Creeks and Estuaries
Merryl Alber (Dept
of Marine Sciences, Univ of Georgia)
Study
of Human Impacts on the Salinity Regimes of Coastal Georgia Estuaries
Richard Wiegert, Merryl Alber, Alice Chalmers
(Dept. of Marine Sciences, Univ. of Georgia) and Jackson O. Blanton (Skidaway
Inst. of Oceanography)
The
Impact of Land Use Changes on the Salt Regimes of Georgia Estuaries
Richard Wiegert, Merryl Alber, Alice Chalmers
(Dept. of Marine Sciences, Univ. of Georgia) and Jackson O. Blanton (Skidaway
Inst. of Oceanography)
Georgia
Rivers Land Margin Ecosystem Research Program: A comparative study of the
transport and transformation of materials from rivers through the land-sea
margin
Richard G. Wiegert, Robert Hodson, William Wiebe,
Mary Ann Moran, Merryl Alber, Alice Chalmers (Dept. of Marine Sciences),
Lawrence R. Pomeroy (Inst. of Ecology), Jackson O. Blanton and Clark Alexander
(Skidaway Inst. of Oceanography)
State
of Knowledge Report: Satilla River Estuary
Merryl
Alber (Dept of Marine Sciences, Univ of Georgia, Athens), Clark Alexander
and Jack Blanton (Skidaway Inst of Oceanography, Savannah), Alice Chalmers
(Dept of Marine Sciences, Univ of Georgia, Athens), and Keith Gates (Marine
Extension Service, Brunswick)
Coastal
Watershed Condition Assessments: Cumberland Island Nat'l Seashore and Fort
Pulaski Nat'l Monument
Merryl Alber (Dept of Marine Sciences, Univ
of Georgia, Athens), Janice Flory (Dept of Marine Sciences, Univ of Georgia,
Athens), Karen Payne (Marine Extension Service, Savannah), Caroline McFarlin
(Dept of Marine Sciences, Univ of Georgia, Athens)
Overview of Recent Projects:
-
Seston over oyster reefs: seston quality, quantity, and the contribution of benthic diatoms to the diet of oysters
Location: Duplin River (SINERR) - Georgia Coastal
Ecosystems LTER
- Water quality (particulate C and N, chlorophyll)
- Invertebrates
- Location: Sapelo, Doboy, Altamaha Sounds -
Spartina species zonation along a salinity gradient
Location: Altamaha River Estuary -
Vegetation on marsh hammocks
Location: near Sapelo Island -
SqueezeBox model: a simple tool to understand the impacts of river flow on estuarine salinity
Location: Altamaha, Ogeechee River Estuaries -
Coastal watershed condition assessments
Location: Cumberland Island National Seashore, Fort Pulaski National Monument