Oguz Yigiterhan¹, Ibrahim S Al-Ansari¹, Alex Nelson², Mohamed Abdel-Moati³, Jesse Turner⁴, Hamood A Alsaadi¹, Barbara Paul², Ibrahim Abdullatif Al-Maslamani⁵, Mehsin Al-Ansi⁶ and James W Murray², (1)Qatar University, Environmental Science Center, Doha, Qatar, (2)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Qatar Ministry of Municipality and Environment, Environmental Assessment Department, Doha, Qatar, (4)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)Qatar University, Office of Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, Doha, Qatar, (6)Qatar University, Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Doha, Qatar