@article {nordio_salinity_2022,
	title = {Salinity increases with water table elevation at the boundary between salt marsh and forest},
	journal = {Journal of Hydrology},
	volume = {608},
	year = {2022},
	pages = {127576},
	abstract = {The migration of salt marshes into forests along coastal regions is nowadays well documented. Sea level rise and storms threaten coastal forests by increasing groundwater levels and salinity. Salinization is the main cause of forest conversion to salt marsh in North America. In this paper we study groundwater levels and salinity in two wells installed at the border between forest and salt marsh in the lower Delmarva peninsula, USA. The upper well is located in the regenerative forest, where recruitment is still possible, while the lower well is located in the persistent forest, where only mature trees survive. Groundwater in the upper well is fresh at the root depth, while in the lower well the mean salinity is 8 ppt. Our data suggest that rainfall has an instantaneous effect on salinity and groundwater levels, but it does not affect salinity and groundwater levels on longer periods (weeks to months). Groundwater levels and salinity reflect the hydraulic gradient toward the marsh (a proxy for outgoing water fluxes), the uphill hydraulic gradient (a proxy for incoming water fluxes) and temperature (a proxy for evapotranspiration). Salinity increases when groundwater levels are high. To explain this result, we put forward the hypothesis that a high water table favors the flux of surficial, fresh water to the marsh, and loss of freshwater by evapotranspiration. These losses are likely replenished by saltier water moving at depth.},
	issn = {0022-1694},
	doi = {10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127576},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169422001512},
	author = {Nordio, Giovanna and Fagherazzi, Sergio}
}
@article {nordio_storm_2022,
	title = {Storm Surge and Tidal Dissipation in Deltaic Wetlands Bordering a Main Channel},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans},
	volume = {127},
	year = {2022},
	pages = {e2021JC017655},
	abstract = {Deltas are complex systems where tidal and riverine signals interact with each other. In river-dominated deltas, where river discharge is sufficiently high, tidal amplitude is attenuated and distorted. Here we use wavelet analysis to examine the water level signal in stations located in wetlands adjacent to the main river outlet in the Wax Lake system, part of the Mississippi River Delta in Louisiana, USA. We study the signal attenuation in lateral wetlands at different frequency bands, following the propagation of the water level signal from the Gulf of Mexico to the innermost stations. During high river discharge, the astronomical tide measured inside the wetlands is reduced of 90\%{\textendash}98\% in comparison to the tide in Atchafalaya Bay. Storm surge events, largely occurring at lower temporal frequencies, propagate conserving their energy once the signal enters the delta mouth. The river discharge signal, mostly present at frequencies lower than 1.59 μHz, is felt depending on river discharge conditions and the station position within the wetlands. Our results suggest that lateral wetlands in the Wax Lake system act as a low pass filter, attenuating tidal components but not the low frequency components of storm surges.},
	keywords = {Energy attenuation, storm surge, Tide, Wavelet transform analysis, wetland},
	issn = {2169-9291},
	doi = {10.1029/2021JC017655},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2021JC017655},
	author = {Nordio, Giovanna and Fagherazzi, Sergio}
}
@article {liu_success_2021,
	title = {Success of coastal wetlands restoration is driven by sediment availability},
	journal = {Communications Earth \& Environment},
	volume = {2},
	number = {1},
	year = {2021},
	month = {dec},
	pages = {44},
	abstract = {Abstract Shorelines and their ecosystems are endangered by sea-level rise. Nature-based coastal protection is becoming a global strategy to enhance coastal resilience through the cost-effective creation, restoration and sustainable use of coastal wetlands. However, the resilience to sea-level rise of coastal wetlands created under Nature-based Solution has been assessed largely on a regional scale. Here we assess, using a meta-analysis, the difference in accretion, elevation, and sediment deposition rates between natural and restored coastal wetlands across the world. Our results show that restored coastal wetlands can trap more sediment and that the effectiveness of these restoration projects is primarily driven by sediment availability, not by wetland elevation, tidal range, local rates of sea-level rise, and significant wave height. Our results suggest that Nature-based Solutions can mitigate coastal wetland vulnerability to sea-level rise, but are effective only in coastal locations where abundant sediment supply is available.},
	issn = {2662-4435},
	doi = {10.1038/s43247-021-00117-7},
	url = {http://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00117-7},
	author = {Liu, Zezheng and Fagherazzi, Sergio and Cui, Baoshan}
}
@article {fagherazzi_salt_2020,
	title = {Salt {Marsh} {Dynamics} in a {Period} of {Accelerated} {Sea} {Level} {Rise}},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface},
	volume = {125},
	number = {8},
	year = {2020},
	month = {aug},
	issn = {2169-9003, 2169-9011},
	doi = {10.1029/2019JF005200},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JF005200},
	author = {Fagherazzi, Sergio and Mariotti, Giulio and Leonardi, Nicoletta and Canestrelli, Alberto and Nardin, William and Kearney, William S.}
}
@article {kearney_sea-level_2019,
	title = {Sea-level rise and storm surges structure coastal forests into persistence and regeneration niches},
	journal = {PLOS ONE},
	volume = {14},
	number = {5},
	year = {2019},
	month = {may},
	pages = {e0215977},
	issn = {1932-6203},
	doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0215977},
	url = {https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215977},
	author = {Kearney, William S. and Fernandes, Arnold and Fagherazzi, Sergio},
	editor = {Magar, Vanesa}
}
@article {kearney_stage-discharge_2017,
	title = {Stage-discharge relationship in tidal channels},
	journal = {Limnology and Oceanography: Methods},
	volume = {15},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {394{\textendash}407},
	abstract = {Long-term records of the flow of water through tidal channels are essential to constrain the budgets of sediments and biogeochemical compounds in salt marshes. Statistical models which relate discharge to water level allow the estimation of such records from more easily obtained records of water stage in the channel. Here, we compare four different types of stage-discharge models, each of which captures different characteristics of the stage-discharge relationship. We estimate and validate each of these models on a 2-month long time series of stage and discharge obtained with an acoustic Doppler current profiler in a salt marsh channel. We find that the best performance is obtained by models that account for the nonlinear and time-varying nature of the stage-discharge relationship. Good performance can also be obtained from a simplified version of these models, which captures nonlinearity and nonstationarity without the complexity of the fully nonlinear or time-varying models.},
	issn = {1541-5856},
	doi = {10.1002/lom3.10168},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/lom3.10168},
	author = {Kearney, William S. and Mariotti, Giulio and Deegan, Linda A. and Fagherazzi, Sergio}
}
