United States Geological Survey

Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (2010 - Present)
Development and integration of the capability to model submerged aquatic vegetation to SLAMM

Ducks Unlimited

Pacific Northwest (2007-Present)
Refinement of Puget Sound Analyses given new LiDAR data
Simulation of the entire coast of Oregon
Significant additions to SLAMM capabilities, including uncertainty and sensitivity modules
Development of the stand-alone SLAMM Uncertainty Viewer

US Fish and Wildlife Service

National Wildlife Refuge simulations (2007- Present)
111 refuges completed to date in USFWS Regions 1,2,4,5, and 8

Large-Scale Analysis of Southern Louisiana (2009-2011)
Glick, P., Clough, J., Polaczyk, A., Couvillion, B, and B. Nunley. 2011. Potential Effects of Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Wetlands in Southeastern Louisiana. submitted to the Journal of Coastal Research

Chesapeake Bay, MD. 2007-2008
The SLAMM 5.0 model was applied to the entire Chesapeake Bay region and Delaware bay, a study area comprising slightly over seven million hectares (yellow rectangle below).  The full technical report may be downloaded from NWF's Chesapeake web-page. GIS Raster files with results are available upon request.

Puget Sound (2007)
The SLAMM 5.0 model was applied to ten sites within Puget Sound, Washington, comprising over 600,000 hectares.  The model was also applied to the mouth of the Columbia River including Willapa Bay, Astoria, and Tillamook. The modeled study area for this site alone was approximately 800,000 hectares.  A model application report (11MB, MSWord format) is available for this as well as the final report.  NWF project website.

 

 

Florida (2006)
The SLAMM 4.1 model was applied to nine sites within Florida, comprising over 1.7 million hectares. Funding for this model application was provided by the National Wildlife Federation.   A model application report (MSWord format) is available for this as well as the final report titled An Unfavorable Tide.

Alaska
SLAMM Analysis of Kenai Peninsula and Anchorage, AK, Final Report
Assessing the Vulnerability of Alaska's Coastal Habitats to Accelerating Sea-level Rise Using the SLAMM Model:  A Case Study for Cook Inlet
A White Paper on Date Requirements and Date Inventory for Alaska SLAMM Analyses

Simulations and parameter sensitivty analyses for six refuges on the Gulf Coast:
Great White Heron NWR, FL
Ten Thousand Islands NWR, FL
Lower Suawnnee, FL
MS Sandhill Crane NWR, MS
San Bernard and Big Boggy NWRs, TX

Port Susan Bay WA & SLAMM 6 Production (2008-2009)
Refinement of accretion model to be spatially and temporally variable and subject to feedbacks from increased inundation.
Run of Port Susan Bay at five-meter scale given multiple management scenarios

Gulf of Mexico Simulations (2008-2011)
Saint Andrew and Choctawhatchee Bays, FL
Grand Bay NERR/NWR, MS
Jefferson County, TX
Galveston Bay, TX

Indiana University

EPA STAR Grant Entire Coast of Georgia and South Carolina: 2006-2008
GIS in conjunction with the SLAMM model has been used to predict changes in marsh area resulting from submergence and habitat conversion. Overlay of ecosystem-level measurements are used to predict how cumulative delivery of ecosystem services in each estuary will be altered in response to incremental (10 cm) increases in sea level. SLAMM has also been used to predict changes in shoreline protection potential of tidal marshes, commercial shrimp yields and the effects of dikes on delivery of ecosystem services. The results of the model will be scaled to the South Atlantic Coast (GA, SC) region.  Official project web page.
Within this project, SLAMM 5.0 was created and salinity effects have been added to the SLAMM framework.

Results of this modeling effort may be viewed in an innovative web-GIS format called SLAMM-VIEW.