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MerMADE: Merrimack River Mixing and Divergence Experiment

Mt. Hope Bay and Brayton Point Power Station

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As part of the Mt. Hope Bay Natural Laboratory, the lab has conducted several observational efforts in Mt. Hope Bay, in an effort to understand physical processes occurring within the Bay, and their relation to a thermal plume discharged from Brayton Point Power Station. Efforts have focused on the near field region of the thermal plume and on the passage between Mt. Hope Bay and Narragansett Bay. These studies have helped to delineate flushing and mixing characteristics of the natural environment and discharge region, and may help to identify design changes to the Brayton Point discharge which could limit impacts to the Mt. Hope Bay ecosystem.

Papers:

• Pappal, A.L., D.G. MacDonald, and R.A. Rountree. Evidence of Cobble Habitat Preference in Age-0 Winter Flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus. J. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology. Submitted.


• Chen, F., and D.G. MacDonald, 2006. Role of mixing in the structure and evolution of a buoyant discharge plume, J. Geophys. Res., 111, C11002, doi:10.1029/2006JC003563. [For an abstract of the paper, click here.]


• MacDonald, D.G., 2006. Estimating an estuarine mixing and exchange ratio from boundary data with application to Mt. Hope Bay (Massachusetts/Rhode Island), Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 70, 326-332. [For an abstract of the paper, click here.]


• R.A. Rountree and D.G. MacDonald, 2006. Introduction to the special issue: Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on the Mt. Hope Bay Ecosystem, Northeast Naturalist, 13, Special Issue 4, pp 1-26. [more info]


• MacDonald, D.G. and R.A. Rountree, 2006. Conclusion to the special issue: Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on the Mt. Hope Bay Ecosystem, Northeast Naturalist, 13, Special Issue 4, pp 199-204. [more info]