Dr. Kristine L DeLong, Ph.D.^1,2, Grant L. Harley³, Kehui Xu⁴, Andy Reese⁵, Jeffrey Obelcz⁶, Kelli Moran⁷, Ellen Bergan⁸, Kendall Fontenot⁹, Ben Owens¹⁰, Mark E Vardy¹⁰ and Zhixiong Shen¹¹, (1)Louisiana State University, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (2)Coastal Studies Institute, Baton Rouge, United States, (3)University of Idaho, Department of Earth and Spatial Sciences, Moscow, United States, (4)Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (5)University of Southern Mississippi, Geography and Geology, Hattiesburg, MS, United States, (6)US Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences Division, Washington, DC, United States, (7)U.S. Geological Survey - Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, United States, (8)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States, (9)University of Washington Seattle, Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES, (10)SAND Geophysics, Southampton, United Kingdom, (11)Coastal Carolina University, Department of Marine Science, Conway, United States