Coral community development on offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico: What we now know

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 438-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel D. Brody ◽  
Joshua Gunn ◽  
Walter Peacock ◽  
Wesley E. Highfield

The rising cost of floods is increasingly attributed to the pattern and form of the built environment. Our study empirically tests this notion by examining the relationship between development intensity and property damage caused by floods. We examine five years of insured flood loss claims across 144 counties and parishes fringing the Gulf of Mexico. Results indicate that clustered, high-intensity development patterns significantly reduce amounts of reported property damage, while increasing percentages of sprawling, low-intensity development involving recent conversion of open space greatly exacerbate flood losses. These findings demonstrate the importance of community development design in fostering flood-resilient communities.


2012 ◽  
Vol 109 (50) ◽  
pp. 20303-20308 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. K. White ◽  
P.-Y. Hsing ◽  
W. Cho ◽  
T. M. Shank ◽  
E. E. Cordes ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (8) ◽  
pp. 5112-5120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan M. Gorchov Negron ◽  
Eric A. Kort ◽  
Stephen A. Conley ◽  
Mackenzie L. Smith

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. DeLaune ◽  
I. Devai ◽  
Aixin Hou ◽  
A. Jugsujinda

Author(s):  
Guilherme Rueda ◽  
Bruno Madella ◽  
Kazuo Nishimoto ◽  
Fabio Matsumoto

The aim of this paper is the study of the Allowable VCG in monocolumn offshore platforms. As study case the MonoBR — an innovative conceptual unit developed by a partnership of PETROBRAS/CENPES and University of Sa˜o Paulo — was analyzed. The studies were carried out during the design of MonoBR for the Walker Ridge area, Gulf of Mexico. The effect on the stability of the unit caused by a damaged tank depends on its loading condition, since there is lost of both, buoyancy and mass, modifying unit’s displacement and center of gravity. In other words, depending of the tank loading, the amount of water that enters or leaves the unit in a damage case may vary widely. In this paper is presented the methodology adopted in the study of influence of the ballast tanks loading in the Allowable VCG curve in MonoBR, introducing this other variable beyond the draft, the usual single variable in AVCG curves. At the end are presented the main results for the study case, whose AVCG can vary by 50% for the same draft depending of the tank loading.


Geology ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (9) ◽  
pp. 691 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.T. Perry ◽  
S.G. Smithers ◽  
S.E. Palmer ◽  
P. Larcombe ◽  
K.G. Johnson

Coral Reefs ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. DeBose ◽  
M. F. Nuttall ◽  
E. L. Hickerson ◽  
G. P. Schmahl

1991 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Bright ◽  
Stephen R. Gittings ◽  
Richard Zingula

2010 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 839-859 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Burt ◽  
David Feary ◽  
Paolo Usseglio ◽  
Andrew Bauman ◽  
Peter F. Sale

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