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NGI Personnel Alongside Researchers from Mississippi State University, University of Southern Mississippi, and University of Alabama Survey Mississippi Sound for Evidence of Fresh Water Resurgence from Buried - Ancient River Channels

December 1, 2020

Boat with bobbers
Following the storm surge and intense rainfall generated by Hurricane ZETA, researchers from the three Universities and the NGI conducted Side Scan and Sub Bottom Sonar Surveys accompanied simultaneously by both Radon and Resistivity Surveys offshore Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi, in a project seeking freshwater resurgence from buried, ancient (Pleistocene) river channels.

Utilizing an AGI SuperSting-Marine with a Towed Array while seeking freshwater resurgences in the Mississippi Sound.