Key Studies and Research
Sound Research
Mississippi Sound Coalition contends strongly there are win-win solutions that can both provide flood control to south Louisiana while protecting our Mississippi Sound. For our part, we are commissioning scientific, engineering, and economic impact studies designed to provide critical data and support information to help USACOE find alternative strategies against adverse impacts of the Bonnet Carré Spillway releases and other harmful threats.
Water quality and quantity measurements, public education, hearings, outreach, and advocacy measures will be used to raise public awareness and engage in liaisons with federal and state agencies to SAVE OUR SOUND.
We will add scientific, engineering, and economic studies and analyses to this page as they become available. We support all research on the Bonnet Carré Spillway openings and the effects on the Mississippi Sound, as well as any other studies done on the health of the Sound.
Key Studies
The Mississippi Sound Coalition is a member of the executive committee of Mississippi State Extension Services’ Mississippi Sound Estuary Program (MSEP). Visit the website for the Lower Mississippi Comprehensive Management Study. Watch the Virtual Public Orientation from the Corps of Engineers regarding the Lower Mississippi River Comprehensive Management Study. Read the USM Study Final Report on the Mid-Breton Sediment Diversion Project. Read the summary on the Mid-Breton Sound Sediment Diversion Project. Read studies from the EPA about harmful algae blooms in water bodies. Find technical, scientific, policy, regulatory, and statutory guidance and research information about cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms and cyanotoxins in drinking water and water bodies from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science. Read information the Mississippi Sound Coalition sent the National Marine Fisheries Service. Read a 2019 Bonnet Carré Spillway Overview by the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, the University of Southern Mississippi and the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies. Read a report about the Spillway Operations Effects in May 2019. A Past, Present and Future Outlook on the Mississippi Oyster Fishery, by the Journal of Shellfish Research.Tipping Points
Stay tuned for future reports from Northern Gulf Institute (MSU & USM).
ECONOMIC IMPACTS: Stay tuned for future reports from MSU’S National Strategic Planning & Analysis Research Center (NSPARC).