Chunyan Li¹, Wei Huang², Brian Milan², MIke D Miner³, Alex Sheremet⁴, Ioannis Y Georgiou⁵, Kehui Xu⁶, Kanchan Maiti², Jie Wang⁷ and Mingming Li⁸, (1)Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (2)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (3)BOEM, Gulf of Mexico Region, New Orleans, LA, United States, (4)University of Florida, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE), Gainesville, FL, United States, (5)University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, United States, (6)Louisiana State University, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (7)Hohai University, China, (8)University Bremen, Bremen, Germany