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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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Michael Sean Kearney

University of Maryland

Department of Environmental Science and Technology

0501 Animal Science Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742  

kearneym@umd.edu

Project List:

Coastal Waters Consortium III (CWC III): Oil Spills as Stressors in Coastal Marshes - The Legacy and the Future

Year 8-10 Research Grants (RFP-VI)Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Coastal Waters Consortium II (CWC II)

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Lead

Coastal Waters Consortium (CWC)

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Co-Lead

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 8

2020

Mo, Y., Kearney, M., & Turner, R. E. (2020). The resilience of coastal marshes to hurricanes: the potential impact of excess nutrients. Environment International, 138, 105409.

2019

Mo, Y., Kearney, M. S., & Turner, R. E. (2019). Feedback of coastal marshes to climate change: Long-term phenological shifts. Ecol Evol, 9(12), 6785–6797.

2018

Mo, Y., Kearney, M. S., Riter, J. C. A., Zhao, F., & Tilley, D. R. (2018). Assessing biomass of diverse coastal marsh ecosystems using statistical and machine learning models. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 68, 189–201.
Turner, R. E., Kearney, M. S., & Parkinson, R. W. (2018). Sea-Level Rise Tipping Point of Delta Survival. Journal of Coastal Research, 342, 470–474.

2017

Mo, Y., Kearney, M., & Momen, B. (2017). Drought-associated phenological changes of coastal marshes in Louisiana. Ecosphere, 8(5), e01811.
Mo, Y., Kearney, M. S., & Riter, C. (2017). Post-Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Monitoring of Louisiana Salt Marshes Using Landsat Imagery. Remote Sensing, 9(6), 547.

2016

Kearney, M. S., & Turner, R. E. (2016). Microtidal Marshes: Can These Widespread and Fragile Marshes Survive Increasing Climate-Sea Level Variability and Human Action? Journal of Coastal Research, 319, 686–699.

2015

Mo, Y., Momen, B., & Kearney, M. S. (2015). Quantifying moderate resolution remote sensing phenology of Louisiana coastal marshes. Ecological Modelling, 312, 191–199.

Conference Presentations - 18

2018

Kearney, M. (2018). Assessing coastal marshes biomass using spectroscopy. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.
Turner, R. E., Kearney, M. S., & Parkinson, R. W. (2018). The Sea Level Rise Tipping Point of Delta Survival. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.

2017

Mo, Y., & Kearney, M. S. (2017). Monitoring coastal marshes biomass with CASI: A comparison of parametric and non-parametric models. In 2017 AGU Fall Meeting. New Orleans, LA : 12/11/17-12/15/17: Poster.
Mo, Y., Kearney, M. S., & Riter, J. C. A. (2017). Assessing the long-term effects of Macondo oil spill on salt marshes using spaceborne multispectral and airborne hyperspectral remote sensing. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17.

2016

Mo, Y., Kearney, M. S., & Riter, J. C. A. (2016). Monitoring Phenology of Coastal Marshes in Louisiana using the Landsat Archive. In 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA : 12/12/16-12/16/16: Poster.

2015

Mo, Y., Kearney, M. S., Momen, B., & Riter, J. C. A. (2015). Correlating peak NDVI of salt marshes with environmental conditions in Louisiana, USA, using principal component analysis. In International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. Milan, Italy : 07/26/15-07/31/15.
Mo, Y., Kearney, M. S., & Riter, J. (2015). Phenological impacts of Hurricane Katrina (2005) and Gustav (2008) on Louisiana coastal marshes. In 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA : 12/12/15-12/16/15: Poster.
Mo, Y., Kearney, M. S., & Riter, J. C. A. (2015). Evaluating Impacts of the 2010 Macondo Oil Spill on Louisiana Coastal Marshes Using Landsat Data. In Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD : 08/09/15-08/14/15.
Mo, Y., Kearney, M. S., & Riter, J. C. A. (2015). Evaluating Impacts of Katrina on Louisiana Coastal Marshes Phenology Using Landsat Data. In Society of Wetland Scientists Annual Meeting. Providence, RI : 05/30/15-06/04/15.
Rabalais, N., Able, K., Bernhard, A., Besonen, M., Engel, A., Fodrie, F., et al. (2015). CWC-II Principal Investigators and Research Plan, CWC-II poster. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15: Poster.
Rabalais, N. N., Able, K. W., Bernhard, A. E., Brown, K. M., Crandall, K. A., Engel, A. S., et al. (2015). CWC-I Plenary Presentation. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.
Riter, J., Kearney, M. S., & Mo, Y. (2015). Landsat-detected impact of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill on southeastern Louisiana marshes. In 2015 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD : 11/01/15-11/04/15.
Riter, J. C. A., Kearney, M. S., & Mo, Y. (2015). LANDSAT detection of the effect of the Macondo oil spill on southeastern Louisiana coastal marshes. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.

2014

Mo, Y., Kearney, M. S., & Momen, B., Riter, J.C.A. (2014). Effects of Decreased Freshwater Input on East Louisiana Marsh Phenology. In Ecological Society of America Mid-Atlantic Chaper. College Park, MD - 03/28/2014-3/29/2014: Poster.

2013

Kearney, M., Ritter, A., & Turner, R. E. (2013). Longterm changes in marsh vegetation coverage and vigor in Barataria Bay and Terrebonne Bay. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.

2012

Riter, J. C. A., Kearney, M. S., & Turner, R. E. (2012). Effects of freshwater diversons on Mississippi delta marshes between 1984 and 2009. In Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. Charlotte, NC, November 5, 2012.
Riter, J. C. A., Kearney, M. S., & Turner, R. E. (2012). Marsh loss from 1984 – 2011 in the Breton Sound, Barataria and Terrebonne Basins, Louisiana, U.S.A.: Impacts of hurricanes and excess nutrients. In AGU Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA, December 4, 2012: Poster.