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Aerial Photography of the Brown Marsh Area
	2000 Natural Color & Color Infrared Photography 1:24000 scale - Task I.1
	2001 Color Infrared Photography 1:24000 scale - Task I.4

Aerial / Ground / LANDSAT Surveys
	Characterization of Brown Marsh Progression and/or Recovery Using Landsat 7 Satellite Imagery (2000-2001) - Task I.2
	Ground Assessment of Plant Recovery and Soil Conditions at Established Field Sites in Barataria and Terrebonne Basins - Task I.6
	Ground Surveys - Temporal Tracking of Plant and Soil Characteristics - Task II.4
	Coastwide Aerial Surveys / 2001 Vegetative Type Map- Task III.7
	Coastwide Aerial Surveys (spatial extent, changes over time, and vegetation characteristics) - Task III.8
	Aerial Surveys Of Salt Marsh Dieback / Die-off Barataria - Terrebonne Basins (August 2000 - Sept 2001)

Causes Data
	Integrative Approach to Understanding the Causes of Salt Marsh Dieback: Experimental Manipulations of Hydrology and Soil Biogeochemistry - Task II.2
	Analysis of Climatic Drivers - Task II.5
	Integrative Approach to Understanding the Causes of Salt Marsh Dieback: Coupled Hydrologic/Ecological Models of Marsh Dieback Processes - Task II.6

Synthesis Data
	Literature Citations of Salt Marsh Ecology Relative to the Marsh Dieback Syndrome Research Program in Coastal Louisiana - Task III.2
	Potential Socioeconomic Impacts of Brown Marsh - Task III.4
	Produce a comprehensive technical characterization and synthesis report that summarizes all work completed in research and remediation trials during the 2001 growing season - Task III.6

Remediation Data
	Assessment & Potential for Vegetative Remediation of Selected Brown Marsh Sites in the Barataria and Terrebonne Basins: Seeding, Aerial and Controlled - Task V.4
	Growth Response of Brown Marsh Populations of Spartina alterniflora to Aluminum - Task V.1

Nutria Data
	Reviews of Literature and Reports on Nutria Relating to the Biology, History of Release, Population Trends in Louisiana, and Interaction with Animals and Wetland Habitats - Task IV.1 - IV.3

Related Data - USGS (U.S. Geological Survey)

NWRC (National Wetlands Research Center)
	DOQQs of Coastal Louisiana in MrSid Format (1998)
	Aerial Photography of Louisiana's Barataria and Terrebonne basins for CWPPRA Monitoring
	Coastal Louisiana Map Database Indexed by coastal parish, Coast 2050 region, coastal hydrologic basin, and text description.
	CWPPRA: NWRC Habitat Monitoring Data
	Louisiana GAP Analysis Project

Water Resources Division
	Louisiana Hydrowatch - Real-Time Hydrologic Monitoring
	LDNR DCP (Data Collection Platform) Stations with surface water data: stage, specific conductance, salinity, water temperature, and so on.
	Ground Water - State-wide aquifer and well information

Presentations
	Marsh Dieback Syndrome (MaDS) Signature Key (Power Point 6.47 MB) Larry Handley National Wetlands Research Center US Geological Survey		Historical Salinity and Water Level (PowerPoint 4.48 MB) Erick M. Swenson Coastal Ecology Institute Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70808 (225) LSU-2730

	Palmer Drought Severity Index 1990 - 2000, By Quarter (PowerPoint 995 KB) November, 2000 Compiled by E. M. Swenson Coastal Ecology Institute Louisiana State University		Brown Marsh Update (PowerPoint 14.9 MB) (HTML with Javascript for 4.0+ browsers) September 14, 2000 Dr. Robert R. Twilley University of Louisiana at Lafayette Center for Ecology and Environmental Technology

	Marsh Die-back: History, Potential Causes, & Current Evidence (PowerPoint 1.22 MB) Karen McKee, Ph.D. Irv Mendelssohn Mike Matern		Louisiana's Brown Marsh Investigation (RealVideo 5 minutes) Summer 2000

	Salinity / Water Level Presentation (PowerPoint 11.9 MB) Greg Steyer Louisiana Department of Natural Resources


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