Jack Blanton |
Jack Blanton
Professor
Skidaway
Institute of Oceanography
Savannah, GA, USA
Expertise:
Physical oceanography
Issues of Interest:
- Water, salt and contaminant transport in tidal channels (including estuaries) and between tidal watersheds
- Validation of
models of estuarine and coastal circulation and mixing
Current Projects:
- Land-Use Coastal Ecosystem Studies (LU-CES)
- Georgia Coastal Ecocsystem - LTER
- Georgia Coastal Zone Management - Salt transport in tidal channels and between tidal watersheds
- Member of the
Model Technical Review Group - Savannah Harbor Deepening Project
Location:
- Estuaries: Southeastern US, Portugal
- Tidal creeks: Georgia, South Carolina, Portugal
- Continental
shelf: Cape Hatteras - Cape Canaveral, Iberian Peninsula
Project Links:
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 Jack 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, Athens, GA), and Jackson O. Blanton (Skidaway Inst. of Oceanography,
Savannah, GA)
Sources
and Transport Mechanisms of White Shrimp in Southeastern Coastal Waters
Jackson
O. Blanton and Peter G. Verity (Skidaway Inst. of Oceanography, Savannah,
GA) Charles A. Barans and Elizabeth L. Wenner (Marine Resources Research
Institute, South Carolina Dept Natural Resources, Charleston, SC)
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).
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, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA), Lawrence
R. Pomeroy (Inst. of Ecology, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA), Jackson O. Blanton
and Clark Alexander (Skidaway Inst. of Oceanography, Savannah, GA)
Initial
Development of an Interdisciplinary Model of the Georgia Estuaries
Changsheng
Chen (Dept of Marine Sciences, Univ of Georgia, Athens, GA) and Jackson O.
Blanton (Skidaway Inst of Oceanography, Savannah, GA)
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)