Shallow coastal sediments help control the flow of energy and nutrients from land to ocean. Because oxygen penetrates only a ...

Shallow coastal sediments help control the flow of energy and nutrients from land to ocean. Because oxygen penetrates only a few millimeters below the surface, microbes living in this environment ...

Despite it all, there’s a thriving miniature ecosystem of billions of microbes just atop the sediment. What’s more, ...

Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...

Wading into the marsh, shovels and buckets in hand, the researchers and their students collected cordgrass along with the muddy sediment ... between plants and microbes in coastal ecosystems ...

The size and morphology of coastal dunes is dependent on the complex interaction between controlling winds, sediment supply, and the geomorphology of the nearshore and beach environment.

"It is estimated that in coastal waters and ... and the activity of these microbes is clearly visible in environments such as mudflats, where the sediment only a few millimetres below the surface ...

Coastal areas, which carry over 50% of the world's population, are essential to humankind because they offer abundant ...

Using advanced DNA sequence analysis, a research team led by NYU Tandon School of Engineering's Assistant Professor Elizabeth ...

The movement of sediment into the back beach environment often results in the formation of coastal dunes. Aa Aa Aa For large-scale coastal dune development there needs to be a suitable wind regime ...