| Title | A research agenda for Fundy: results from the 2006 'Fundy Session' at the Atlantic Geoscience Society Colloquium |
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| Author | Kosters, E C; Butler, K; Fader, G; Milligan, T; Muschenheim, K; Parrott, D R; Van Proosdij, D |
| Source | Atlantic Geoscience Society Abstracts: 2008 Colloquium & Annual General Meeting; Atlantic Geology vol. 44, 2008 p. 22  Open Access |
| Links | Online - En ligne
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| Year | 2008 |
| Alt Series | Earth Sciences Sector, Contribution Series 20080078 |
| Meeting | Atlantic Geoscience Society 34th Colloquium and Annual General Meeting; Dartmouth, NS; CA; February 1-2, 2008 |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| Province | Eastern offshore region |
| Area | Bay of Fundy |
| Subjects | marine geology; sea level changes; sea level fluctuations; seabottom topography; seafloor topography; sand waves; sedimentation |
| Released | 2008 01 01 |
| Abstract | During the 2006 AGS Colloquium, we convened a session on "Sedimentation in the Greater Bay of Fundy". The aim of this session was to define a research agenda, an exercise that had not been carried out
for a long time and which we deemed necessary because of: a) global change implications, b) renewed interest in tidal power generation, c) changing views on coastal zone management practices. These were the most important topics of the agenda: (1)
map the entire Bay floor using multibeam bathymetry, paying special attention to mussel reefs and large sand and gravel bedforms; (2) establish the timing of origin of the big sand waves on the bottom of the Bay; (3)
establish a sediment budget,
paying special attention to the different contributions of bedload, suspended load, organic and inorganic matter; (4) improve understanding of sea level rise over the last 10,000 years; (5) establish the proportions of organic and non-organic
material in the sediment column; (6) establish a sediment monitoring system in the upper Bay prior to removing the Petitcodiac causeway; (7) quantify the role of winter ice as a source of sediment and in relation to marsh ecology; (8) quantify the
effects of (increased) wave activity on exposed marsh cliffs; (9) compile detailed high-resolution LiDAR surveys of marshes and mudflats; (10) integrate modern and
historical bathymetric data with historical aerial photography and HR satellite
imagery; (11) expand monitoring of dredge spoil disposal sites, as at Saint John (NB), to elsewhere; (12) address bottom fishing and its effects on benthic communities and sediment erosion. The 2008 session has been convened to document progress and
revisit the agenda in the light of recent (political) developments. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 225135 |
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