Clark Alexander |
Clark Alexander
Professor
Skidaway
Institute of Oceanography
Expertise:
Sedimentology, radiochemistry, stratigraphy, fine-grained depositional environments,
rates and products of sedimentary processes, sediment chronologies of contaminant
input, benthic habitat mapping
Issues of Interest:
Non-point source pollution, coastal erosion, sediment management, hammocks,
impacts of structures on marsh habitat, essential fish habitat.
Current Projects (Georgia and related):
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 (see
project summary for affiliations).
Field Assessment and Simulation of Shading from Alternative Dock Construction Materials
Clark Alexander (Skidaway Institute of Oceanography), Risa Cohen (Georgia Southern University)
Assessing Shoreline Change and Coastal Hazards for the Georgia Coast. GA Sea Grant, 2008-2010.
Threatened Archaeological, Historic and Cultural Resources of the Georgia Coast: Identification, Prioritization and Management using GIS Technology, Phase II. GA Coastal Zone Management Program, 2008-2010.
Quantifying the Impact of Recreational and Commercial Usage of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway on the Natural Resources of Georgia, GA Coastal Zone Management Program, 2008-2010.
Providing a Temporal Framework for Ossabaw Island in Support of Physical and Social Science Research, Ossabaw Island foundation, 2008-2009.
GIS and Field-Based Documentation of Armored Estuarine Shorelines in Georgia, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, 2009-2010.
Remote Bathymetric Measurements with NCAM, Savannah River National Laboratory/DOE, with J. Blanton, 2009-2012.
Developing a Coordinated Research Strategy for Marsh Hammock Research. GA Coastal Zone Management Program. (Link to PDF of Back Barrier Island semi-annotated Bibliography, July 2004)
Location:
I work in lakes, rivers, estuaries and in the marine realm on the continental
shelf, slope and rise throughout the world.
Savannah, Ogeechee, Satilla, Altamaha, St. Mary's, Duplin, St. John's Rivers
ACE Basin, Sapelo National Estuarine Research Reserve, Winyah Bay, Anadyr estuary (Russia), Tampa Bay
Georgia shelf and slope, Northern and Southern California shelf and slope, Yellow Sea, New Jersey shelf.
Southeastern barrier islands and beaches
Prior Project Links:
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)
Rates
and Controls of Sediment Processes Regulating Nutrient Regeneration/Burial
in the Satilla River Estuary
Joel E. Kostka, Clark R. Alexander and
Richard A. Jahnke (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)
Links:
Sedimentology
Projects (external site)
Focus Area, Marsh Hammocks (work of C. Alexander and others)