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Ellis J. Clairain
Researcher at United States Army Corps of Engineers
Publications - 3
Citations - 919
Ellis J. Clairain is an academic researcher from United States Army Corps of Engineers. The author has contributed to research in topics: Levee & Global warming. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 844 citations.
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Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
John W. Day,Donald F. Boesch,Ellis J. Clairain,G. Paul Kemp,Shirley Laska,William J. Mitsch,Kenneth Orth,Hassan Mashriqui,Denise J. Reed,Leonard A. Shabman,Charles A. Simenstad,Bill J. Streever,Robert R. Twilley,Chester C. Watson,John T. Wells,Dennis F. Whigham +15 more
TL;DR: Science must guide MDP restoration, which will provide insights into delta restoration elsewhere and generally into coasts facing climate change in times of resource scarcity.
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Implications of global climatic change and energy cost and availability for the restoration of the Mississippi delta
John W. Day,John A. Barras,Ellis J. Clairain,James B. Johnston,Dubravko Justic,G. Paul Kemp,Jae-Young Ko,Robert R. Lane,William J. Mitsch,Gregory D. Steyer,Paul H. Templet,Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia +11 more
TL;DR: The main causes of this loss are the near complete isolation of the Mississippi River from the delta, mostly due to the construction of flood control levees, and pervasive hydrological disruption of the deltaic plain this article.
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Lessons learned: An assessment of the effectiveness of a National Technical Review Committee for oversight of the plan for the restoration of the Mississippi Delta
Kenneth Orth,John W. Day,Donald F. Boesch,Ellis J. Clairain,William J. Mitsch,Leonard A. Shabman,Charles A. Simenstad,Bill J. Streever,Chester C. Watson,John T. Wells,Dennis F. Whigham +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present lessons learned about the function of a National Technical Review Committee (NTRC) for a major U.S. Corps of Engineers water resources study, the Louisiana Coastal Area Study (the restoration of the Mississippi Delta).