Environmental Atlas of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin

Acronyms

Acronym Definitions Acronym Definition ADCP Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler ANL Argonne National Laboratory AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer BCSA Breton-Chandeleur Sound Area BDA Birdfoot Delta Area BMP Best Management Practices BSA Bayou Sauvage Area CAIS Center for Applied Isotope Studies at the Universities of Georgia CIA Chandeleur Islands Area CMP Comprehensive Management Program CWA Central Wetland Area CWCP Coastal Wetland Conservation Plan CWPPRA Coastal Wetland Planning, Protection and Restoration Act ECOMsi Estuarine, Coastal and Ocean Model (semi-implicit) EO LBA East Orleans Land Bridge Area EOSAT Earth Observation Satellite Company EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency FC Fecal Coliform FIM Fisheries-independent Monitoring GAP National Gap Analysis Program GIS Geographic Information Systems GIWW Gulf Intercoastal Waterway GRI Gas Research Institute HISW Hindcasting Shallow Water Waves HRSP High-resolution seismic profiles IHNC Inner Harbor Navigational Canal IWI Index of Watershed Indicators kyr thousand years LBA Lake Borgne Area LDEQ Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality LDHH Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals LDWF Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries LPA Lake Pontchartrain Area LPB Lake Pontchartrain Basin LPBF Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation LSU Louisiana State University LUMCON Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium MLBA Manchac Land Bridge Area MOU Memorandum of Understanding MPN most-probable number MRGO Mississippi River Gulf Outlet m/s meters per second MSA Maurepas Swamp Area MSY New Orleans International Airport MYH New Orleans Municipal Yacht Harbor NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NCDC National Climatic Data Center NDBC National Data Buoy Center NMFS National Marine Fisheries Service NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Services> NSMA North Shore Marsh Area NWI National Wetlands Inventory NWRC National Wetlands Research Center P Phosphorous ppm parts per million ppt parts per thousand PRA Pontchartrain Restoration Act of 2000 PRMA Pearl River Mouth Area PWA Plaquemines Wetland Area RPC Regional Planning Commission SAV Submersed Aquatic Vegetation SBWA St. Bernard Wetland Area SLBA South Lake Borgne Area SWPA South West Pontchartrain Area TKN Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen TSS Total Suspended Solids Ub Near-bottom wave orbital velocity maximum UNO The University of New Orleans UNOCRL University of New Orleans Coastal Research Lab USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers USFWS United States Fish and Wildlife Service USGS U.S. Geological Survey WMP Watershed Management Plan VSS Volatile Suspended Solids wt% weight percent XRF X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy