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:
Sediment Mixing and Accumulation in the Southern California Bight. United States Geological Survey.
High Resolution Pollution History Study in the Delaware River Estuary Near a Delaware City Refinery, Motiva Industries, with D. Lee and K. Maruya.
An Integrated GIS-Based Approach to Quantifying the Rates of Shoreline Change in the Georgia Bight, United States Geological Survey, Lead PI with T. Foyle, D. Bush, S. Langley, and J. Henry.
Salinity Intrusion and the distribution of Fine-Grained Sediment Within the ACE Basin. ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve.
State of Knowledge of the Satilla River Estuary. Georgia Sea Grant, Co-PI with M. Alber, J. Blanton, A. Chalmers and K. Gates.
Multibeam Mapping of Grays Reef National Marine Sanctuary. NOAA.
Gulf Trough and Satilla Line Data Analysis. Georgia Dept. Of Natural Resources, Environmental Protection Div., with J. Henry.
Toward Linking Seabed Stratigraphy and Nested Seismic Datasets in STRATAFORM: Finalizing Plans for Long Coring and Synthesizing Existing Physical Property Data. Office of Naval Research.
Support for Long Coring on the New Jersey Margin. Office of Naval Research.
GIS and Field-Based Analysis of the Individual and Cumulative Impacts of Recreational Docks on the Saltmarshes of Georgia. GA Coastal Zone Management Program.
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
Project Links:
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).
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)
Homepage:
http://www.skio.peachnet.edu/faculty/alexander.html