EPA STAR Grant Progress Report, Year 4 Program: Environmental Indicators in the Estuarine Environment Title: Atlantic Coast Environmental Indicators Consortium (ACE INC)

s of talks given at National Meetings Morris, J.T., G. Herrick, and J. Herr. 2002. Nutritional status and spectral reflectance of Spartina alterniflora. Abstract of talk given at the annual meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, June 10-15, Victoria, B.C. Marshall, H.L. and J. Morris. 2003. Xanthophyll pigments and their application to remote sensing of environmental quality. Abstract of presentation to be made at the winter meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, February, 2003, Salt Lake City. Marshall, H.L., Morris, J.T. and Geider, R. Xanthophyll Cycling as a stress response. Abstract of presentation to be made at the summer meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography 2004 in Savannag, GA. Morris, J.T., G. Herrick, J. Herr, D., Porter, P. Noble, J. Jensen. 2003. Determinants of the spectral reflectance of the marsh grass Spartina alterniflora and a neural network classification of a coastal landscape. Abstract of invited talk given at a special EAGLES session at the AAG meeting, March, New Orleans, March 5. Morris, J.T. Responses of coastal wetland productivity and biogeochemistry to changing sea level. Abstract of plenary talk given at the ASLO meeting, Savannah. June 13-18. Fagherazzi, S., S. Mudd, J. Morris and D. Furbish. Flow, sedimentation, and biomass production on a vegetated salt marsh in South Carolina: toward a predictive model of marsh morphologic and ecologic evolution. Abstract of talk for the 2004 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco. Dec 13-17.