Oysters, Blue Crabs, and Spotted Seatrout#

Building Resilience to Environmental Trends and Variability in the Gulf of Mexico

OyBcSt examines how oyster, blue crab, and spotted seatrout populations respond to human and environmental changes with the goal of improving the management of these economically and culturally important species. About OyBcSt at NOAA RESTORE

Hydrodynamics#

A hydrodynamics model calculates sea surface height, water temperature, salinity, and currents. Observations of these physical quantities may only be available for a handful of locations and times, but our model can fill in the gaps, giving us useful data for each point in space and time in the model domain.

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Mobile Bay

Fig. 1 Left: Mobile Bay on Google Earth with SCHISM grid. Right: Model output of temperature.#

Mobile-Tensaw River Delta

Fig. 2 Left: Mobile-Tensaw River Delta on Google Earth with SCHISM grid. Right: Model output of temperature.#

Thank you NOAA and NSF#

The hydrodynamics modeling work is a component of research funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s RESTORE Science Program under award NA19NOS4510194 to University of South Alabama and North Carolina State University.

The hydrodynamics modeling for this project is done on Expanse, at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), and the modeling data is being hosted on Open Storage Network (OSN), through allocation EES210015 from the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support, which is supported by National Science Foundation grants #2138259, #2138286, #2138307, #2137603, and #2138296.

Work at both providers was done under the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which was supported by National Science Foundation grant number #1548562. We thank Mark W. Van Moer of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) for advanced visualization support which was made possible through the XSEDE Extended Collaborative Support Service (ECSS) program.

Acknowledgements#

Members of NOAA RESTORE’s Oysters, Blue Crabs, Seatrout project(OyBcSt) hydrodynamics modeling team, alphabetically listed:

  • Brian Dzwonkowski - Senior Marine Scientist, Dauphin Island Sea Lab; PI NOAA RESTORE

  • John Lehrter - Senior Marine Scientist, Dauphin Island Sea Lab; Lead PI, NOAA RESTORE

  • Zhilong Liu - Research Assistant Professor, University of South Alabama

  • Lisa L. Lowe - Advanced Computing Specialist, North Carolina State University; PI NOAA RESTORE

  • Aravind Puzhankara - PhD Student, University of South Alabama

  • Harikrishnan Sreeshylam - PhD Student, University of South Alabama

Lisa Lowe created the website, visualizations, videos, R Shiny App, and GIS outputs.

Zhilong Liu provided SCHISM model outputs used in the visualizations and GIS outputs.

Harikrishnan Sreeshylam provided ROMS model outputs used in the R Shiny App.

Alyssa Bourne, student at University of South Alabama, compiled the lengthy list of citations into Bibtex for the Publications section.