Marsh Migration - Technical Consulting

Geoscience was hired by Waterview Consulting to provide technical background and input on a guidance document detailing the present state of Marsh Migration Modelling in the Northeast. Landward migration of marshes is one of the universal effects of SLR and has been occurring for thousands of years. This natural process is forecast to accelerate as SLR rates increase and has the potential to change both the areal extents and make up of the existing habitats. Geoscience performed a technical review of marsh migration models, the fundamental data sets and various parameters that drive model outputs. Keil Schmid has been working on marsh migration modeling and the input data since 2007.

Marsh migration and land cover change from SLR - NOAA model