Publications

Explosive growth in international trade over the past 30 years has increased the need for dredging to maintain navigable waterways in ports and harbors worldwide.

Documentation of long-term change in benthic ecosystems is important for assessing and managing the effects of change.

Ten years ago, sediment profile photography was proposed as an efficient technique for in situ documentation of organism-sediment relations (Rhoads and Cande, 1971). This technique has not gained wide acceptance because it was not supported by theory to interpret sediment profile images.