Impacts of Suspended Sediment and Estuarine – Shelf Exchange Pathways on Shelf Ecosystem Dynamics in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Jeremy David Wiggert1, Chudong Pan1, Michael S Dinniman2, Yee Lau3, Patrick J Fitzpatrick4, Stephan J O'Brien1, Courtney Bouchard1, Lauren Michelle Quas1, Travis N Miles5, Mustafa Kemal Cambazoglu6, Steven Louis Dykstra7, Brian Dzwonkowski8, Gregg A. Jacobs9, Ian Church10 and Eileen E Hofmann11, (1)University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (2)Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States, (3)Mississippi State University, Geosystems Research Institute, Stennis Space Center, United States, (4)Mississippi State University, Geosystems Research Institute, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (5)Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, (6)The University of Southern Mississippi, School of Ocean Science and Engineering, Stennis Space Center, United States, (7)University of South Alabama, Department of Marine Science, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL, United States, (8)University of South Alabama / Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, United States, (9)Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (10)University of New Brunswick, Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, Fredericton, NB, Canada, (11)Old Dominion University, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Norfolk, VA, United States