James Herbert Leidhold¹, Daniel G MacDonald², Nikiforos Delatolas³, Ágata Piffer Braga⁴, Louis Goodman⁵, Michael M Whitney⁶, Kimberly Huguenard⁷, Kelly L Cole⁸ and Preston Spicer⁷, (1)UMASS Dartmouth, Civil and Environmental Engineering, N. Dartmouth, MA, United States, (2)U Mass/Dartmouth-Est&Ocean Sci, Fairhaven, MA, United States, (3)Earth Resources Technology Inc., Silver Spring, MD, United States, (4)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA, United States, (5)University of Massachusetts Da, New Bedford, MA, United States, (6)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, (7)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (8)University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences, Walpole, ME, United States