WATERSPOUT ON HILLSBOROUGH BAY, TAMPA, FLA., APRIL 2, 1929

Tampa Bay and Saint Joseph Sound

Nearly 2 million people live in the Tampa Bay region, and the bay is the largest estuary in the State of Florida. The bay is home to the third largest port in the United States (in terms of domestic tonnage), and nearly 100,000 recreational boats are registered to owners in the counties surrounding the bay. Tampa Bay is also home to approximately 40,000 breeding pairs of shorebirds and over 100...

Refining Carbon Sequestration Estimates of Seagrass Meadows in Tampa Bay

As of 2012, there were an estimated 14,243 ha of seagrass meadows in Tampa Bay. Seagrass meadows are the dominant blue carbon habitat in Tampa Bay, compared to the estimated 6,127 ha of mangroves and 1,779 ha of saltmarsh. However, and unlike mangroves and saltmarshes, the entirety of carbon fixation, growth and decay in seagrass meadows occurs in a submerged environment. While rates of primary...

The Impact of a Barrier Island Loss on Extreme Events in the Tampa Bay

Barrier islands characterize up to an eighth of the global coastlines. They buffer the mainland coastal areas from storm surge and wave energy from the open ocean. Changes in their shape or disappearance due to erosion may lead to an increased impact of sea level extremes on the mainland. A barrier island threatened by erosion is Egmont Key which is located in the mouth of the Tampa Bay estuary...

Cover Vol 16, No. 2, April 2019

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