Deep-sea coral record of human impact on watershed quality in the Mississippi River Basin

Nancy Prouty1, Brendan Roark2, Alan Koenig3, Fabian C Batista4, Benjamin David Kocar5, David S Selby6, Matthew D McCarthy4, Furu Mienis7, Steve W Ross8 and Amanda W Demopoulos9, (1)USGS, Santa Cruz, United States, (2)Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, Texas, TX, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States, (4)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, (7)Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands, (8)University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Center for Marine Science, Wilmington, NC, United States, (9)Department of the Interior Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States