Shifting exhibition photographic images
Fort Proctor
Area where the land loss is obvious, Fort Proctor. Below is the rock formation built by the corp of engineers for the MRGO or the Mississppi River Gulf Outlet
Marsh degradation
Tiny grass islands are all that remains of a once healthy marsh due to salt water entering a fresh water marsh area too rapidly. On the right are cut outs or canals cut through the marshes, without proper restoring of the marshes without proper back fill.
Dulac Former Cypress Forest
Saltwater intrusion caused this cypress forest to diminish, and the marshes are in decline.
Bayou La Chape, Dead Cypress Forest Disintegrating Marsh
The next phase of marsh degradation from saltwater intrusion.
MRGO
Entrance to the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet near Lake Borgne Archival chromogenic photograph, 2009
birds from Anderson island
Spoonbills, White ibis', gulls, terns, blue herons, egrets, and more fly above the Anderson island rookerie near Hopedale, LA.
Pass a Loutre (Outer Pass)
One of the three tributaries at the mouth of the Mississippi river where there are no levees and the land is able to rebuild.
Southwest Pass
The mouth of the Mississippi river that has jetties that force the alluvial soil off the continental shelf- to avoid island formation for uninterrupted commerce to pass. (Built by the Corps of Engineers and based on James Ead's design)
Marsh regeneration techniques
Marsh burning and Marsh Terracing are techniques used to regenerate the marshes
Damage Control
Oil in the Gulf of Mexico during the April 2010 Deepwater horizon oil spill Oil in the Gulf of Mexico during the BP Deepwater horizon oil spill in 2010
Turning Tree (Atchafalaya Basin Fall)
Cypress Tree near possum cove with the ever changing water line on its trunk
Rigs on horizon
Directly opposite the mouth of the Mississippi River, where the fresh water meets the salty Gulf waters.
Streams of oil in Gulf
The red streaks that look like veins are a chemical reaction of the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico being exposed to sunlight turning it red.
Oiled rookerie
This rookerie near Grand Isle which hosted pelicans and egrets galore was contaminated with oil from the BP oil spill
Oil that has changed color in the sun streams through the Gulf of Mexico
Moose like oil near Pass a Loutre (by the mouth of the river)
Beaches at the Gulf of Mexico
Sand from the Waveland beaches show signs of tiny beach life as oil starts to creep in
Judge Williams, oyster fisherman at harvest time
Judge Williams fishing for oysters at beginning of the Gulf oil spill. Middle shot is a piece from the exploded rig Dye sublimated photographs on silk 120"x60"
Bonnet Carre Spillway Opening
Major Diversion of water from the Mississippi River to the Lake Ponchartrain during the spring rising tide of 2011
Mississippi River flooding through a release of the Morganza and Bonnet Carre Spillways
Mississippi River rising waters, 2011. Left is the Bonnet Carre Spillway, center are farmlands burned in preparation for the floodwaters, right flooded farmlands and riparian forests
Causeway Bridge over Lake Ponchartrain
One of the longest bridges in the world over Lake Ponchartrain
Crossroads
Oil epxloration tracks in the marshes on the upper left, and channels cut out of marshes expedite land erosion
