Publications


2022


Bowes K.M., White J.R., Maiti K., Meselhe E. (2022). “Surface water temperature impacts on coastal wetland denitrification: Implications for river reconnection.” Science of The Total Environment 828: 154397. DOI: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722014905

Meselhe E., Khalifa A.M., Hu K., Lewis J., Tavakoly, A.A. (2022). “Influence of Key Environmental Drivers on the Performance of Sediment Diversions.” Water 14(1). DOI:3390/w14010024

2021


Hu K., Meselhe E., Nyman J.A. (2021). “The Effect of Phragmites australis Dieback on Channel Sedimentation in the Mississippi River Delta: A Conceptual Modeling Study.” Water 13(10). DOI: 3390/w13101407

Meselhe E., White E.D., Wang Y., Reed D.J. (2021). “Uncertainty analysis for landscape models used for coastal planning.” Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 256: 107371. DOI: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272771421002249

Meselhe E., Sadid K., Khadka A. (2021). “Sediment Distribution, Retention and Morphodynamic Analysis of a River-Dominated Deltaic System.” Water 13(10). DOI: 3390/w13101341

2020


Yuill, B., Wang, Y., Allison, M., Meselhe, E., and Esposito, C. (2020) Sand settling through bedform‐generated turbulence in rivers. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4962.

Meselhe, E., Lamjiri, M.A., Flint, K., Matus, S., White, E.D., and Mandli, K. 2020. ” Continental Scale Heterogeneous Channel Flow Routing Strategy for Operational Forecasting Models.” Journal of the American Water Resources Association 1– 13. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12847.

Melissa M. Baustian, Hoonshin Jung, Harris C. Bienn, Monica Barra, Scott A. Hemmerling, Yushi Wang Eric White, Ehab Meselhe (2020). Engaging coastal community members about natural and nature-based solutions to assess their ecosystem function. Journal of Ecological Engineering, Volume 5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoena.2019.100015.

Meselhe, E.A., et a. (2020). Knowledge-Based Predictive Tools to Assess Effectiveness of Natural and Nature-based Solutions for Coastal Restoration and Protection Planning. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Volume 146, Page 05019007-1: 05019007-12. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0001659.

2019


Eric D. White, Ehab Meselhe, Denise Reed, Alisha Renfro, Natalie Peyronnin Snider, and Yushi Wang (2019). Mitigating the Effects of Sea-Level Rise on Estuaries of the Mississippi Delta Plain Using River Diversions. Water 2019, 11, 2028; doi:10.3390/w11102028.

Meselhe, E.A., et a. (2019). Development of Knowledge-Based Predictive Tools to Assess Effectiveness of Natural and Nature-based Solutions for Coastal Restoration and Protection Planning. In Press, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE.

White, E. D., Reed, D. J., and Meselhe, E. A. (2019). Modeled sediment availability, deposition, and decadal land change in coastal Louisiana marshes under future sea level rise scenarios. Wetlands. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-019-01151-0. https://rdcu.be/bG8pK.

Vaccare, J., Meselhe, E.A., and White, J. R. (2019) “The denitrification potential of eroding wetlands in Barataria Bay, LA, USA: Implications for river reconnection,” Science of The Total Environment, Volume 686, Pages 529-537, ISSN 0048-9697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.475.

2018


Baustian, M.M., Meselhe, E.A., Jung, H., Sadid, K., Duke-Sylvester, S.M., Visser, J.M., Allison, M.A., Moss, L.C., Ramatchandirane, C., van Marend, D.S., Jeuken, M., Bargu, S. (2018) “Development of an Integrated Biophysical Model to represent morphological and ecological processes in a changing deltaic and coastal ecosystem,” Environmental Modelling & Software, vol. 109, pages 402-419, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.05.019.

Reed, D., van Wesenbeeck, B., Herman, P.M.J. and Meselhe, E.A. (2018) “Tidal Flat-wetland Systems as Flood Defenses: Understanding Biogeomorphic Controls,” Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, vol. 213, pages 269-282, ISSN 0272-7714, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2018.08.017.

White, E.D., Messina, F., Moss, L. and Meselhe, E.A. (2018) “Salinity and Marine Mammal Dynamics in Barataria Basin: Historic Patterns and Modeled Diversion Scenarios,” Water, 10, 1015; doi: 10.3390/w10081015.

Gaweesh A. and Meselhe, E.A. (2018) “Closure to “Evaluation of Sediment Diversion Design Attributes and Their Impact on the Capture Efficiency,” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 144 (8), https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0001114.

Kolker, A. S., Dausman, A.M., Allison, M.A., Brown, G.L., Chu, P.Y., de Mutsert, K., Fitzpatrick, C.E., Henkel, J.R., Justic, D., Kleiss, B.A., McCoy, E., Meselhe, E.A., and Richards, C.P. (2018), “Rethinking the River,” EOS, 99, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO101169. Published on 19 June 2018.

Sendrowski, A., Sadid, K., Meselhe, E.A., Wagner, W., Mohrig, D. and Passalacqua, P. (2018) “Transfer Entropy as a Tool for Hydrodynamic Model Validation,” Entropy, vol. 20(1), 58, doi:10.3390/e20010058.

2017


Xing, F., Syvitski, J.P.M., Kettner, A.J., Meselhe, E.A., Atkinson, J.H. and Khadka, A. (2017) “Morphological responses of the Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana, to Hurricanes Rita,” Elementa, 5: 80, doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.125.

Meselhe, E.A., Roelvink, D., Wackerman, C., Xing, F., Vo, Q.T. (2017) “Modeling the Process Response of Coastal and Deltaic Systems to Human and Global Changes,” Oceanography, vol. 30(3), doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2017.317.

Stephens, J., Ogston, A., Xing, F., Weathers, D., Meselhe, E.A., Allison, M.A., Di Leonardo, D. and McLachlan, R. (2017) “Sand Dynamics in the Mekong River Channel and Export to the Coastal Ocean,” Continental Shelf Research, doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2017.08.004.

Xing, F., Meselhe, E.A., Allison, M.A. and Weathers, D. (2017) “Analysis and Numerical Modeling of the Flow and Sand Dynamics in the Lower Song Hau Channel, Vietnam,” Continental Shelf Research, 1 September, vol. 147, pages 62-77, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2017.08.003.

Allison, M., Yuill, B.T., Meselhe, E.A., Marsh, J.K., Kolker, A.S. and Ameen, A.D. (2017) “Observational and Numerical Particle Tracking to Examine Sediment Dynamics in a Mississippi River Delta Diversion,” Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2017.06.004.

Allison, M., Weathers, D. and Meselhe, E.A. (2017) “Bottom Morphology in the Song Hau Distributary Channel, Mekong River Delta, Vietnam,” Continental Shelf Research, doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2017.05.010.

2016


Meselhe, E.A., Sadid, K.M. and Allison, M.A. (2016) “Riverside morphological response to pulsed sediment diversion,” Geomorphology, vol. 270, October, pages 184-202. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.07.023.

Yuill, B.T., Khadka, A.K., Pereira, J., Allison, M.A. and Meselhe, E.A. (2016) “Morphodynamics of the Erosional Phase of Crevasse-splay Evolution and Implications for River Sediment Diversion Function,” Geomorphology, vol. 259, April, pages 12-29. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.02.005.

Gaweesh, A. and Meselhe, E.A. (2016) “Evaluation of Sediment Diversion Design Attributes and Their Impact on the Capture Efficiency,” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, January, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0001114.

2015


Yuill, B.T., Gaweesh, A, Allison, M.A. and Meselhe, E.A. (2015) “Morphodynamic Evolution of a Lower Mississippi River Channel Bar after Sand Mining,” Earth Surface Processes and Landforms,· August, doi: 10.1002/esp.3846.

Michot, B., Meselhe, E., Krauss, K., Shrestha, S., From, A.S., and Patino, E. (2015) “Hydrologic Modeling in a Marsh–Mangrove Ecotone: Predicting Wetland Surface Water and Salinity Response to Restoration in the Ten Thousand Islands Region of Florida, USA,” Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 10.1061/(ASCE) HE.1943-5584.0001260, D4015002.

2014


Twilley, R.R., Brandt, S., Breaux, D., Cartwright, J., Chen, J., Easson, G., Fitzpatrick, P., Fridley, K., Graves, S., Harper, S., Kaiser, C., Maestre, A., Maskey, M., McAnally, W., McCorquodale, J., Meselhe, E.A., Miller-Way, T., Park, K., Pereira, J., Richardson, T., Tao, J., Ward, A., Wiggert, J. and Williamson, D. (2014) “Simulation Management Systems Developed by the Northern Gulf Coastal Hazards Collaboratory (NG-CHC): An Overview of Cyberinfrastructure to Support the Coastal Modeling Community in the Gulf of Mexico,” Advances in Coastal and Marine Resources: Remote Sensing and Modeling edited by Charles W. Finkl, Antonio H.F. Klein, and Christopher Makowski. Coastal Research Library (CRL) series. ISBN 978-3-319-06326-3. 460 pages.

Allison, M.A., Ramirez, M.T. and Meselhe, E.A. (2014) “Diversion of Mississippi River Water Downstream of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA to Maximize Sediment Capture and Ameliorate Coastal Land Loss,” Water Resources Management, vol. 28. ISSN 0920-4741, doi: 10.1007/s11269-014-0731-y.

El Kheiashy, K., McCorquodale, J., Georgiou, I. and Meselhe, E.A. (2014) “Bed Forms Resistance Dependency on Numerical Model Grid Size Spatial Resolution,” Journal of Spatial Science, doi: 10.1080/14498596.2014.879746.

Wang, H, Steyer, G.D., Couvillion, B.R., Rybczyk, J.M., Beck, H.J., Sleavin, W.J., Meselhe, E.A., Allison, M.A., Boustany, R.G., Fischenich, C.J. and Rivera-Monroy, V.H. (2014) “Forecasting Landscape Effects of Mississippi River Diversions on Elevation and Accretion in Louisiana Deltaic Wetlands under Future Environmental Uncertainty Scenarios,” Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 01/2014; doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2013.12.020

2013


Meselhe, E., McCorquodale, J.A., Shelden, J., Dortch, M., Brown, T. S., Elkan, P., Rodrigue, M. D., Schindler, J. K. and Wang, Z. (2013) “Eco-Hydrology Component of Louisiana’s 2012 Coastal Master Plan: Mass-Balance Compartment Model,” Journal of Coastal Research, vol. 67, pages 16-28.

Rivera-Monroy, V.H., Branoff, B., Meselhe, E.A., McCorquodale, J.A., Dortch, M., Steyer, G.D., Visser, J., and Wang, H. (2013) “Landscape-Level Estimation of Nitrogen Removal in Coastal Wetlands: Potential Sinks under Different Restoration Scenarios,” Journal of Coastal Research, vol. 67, pages 75-87.

2012


Allison, M.A., Vosburg, B.M., Ramirez, M.T., and Meselhe, E.A. (2012) “Mississippi River Channel Response to the Bonnet Carré Spillway Opening in the 2011 Food and its Implications for the Design and Operation of River Diversions,” Journal of Hydrology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.11.011

Meselhe, E.A., Georgiou, I., Allison, M.A., and McCorquodale, J.A. (2012) “Numerical Modeling of Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport in Lower Mississippi at a Proposed Delta Building Diversion,” Journal of Hydrology, vol. 472–473, November, pages 340-354.

Wang, H., Meselhe, E.A., Waldon, M.G., Harwell, M.C. and Chen, C. (2012) “Compartment-based Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Modeling of a Northern Everglades Wetland, Florida, USA,” Ecological Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 247, pages 273-285.

Chen, C., Meselhe, E.A., and Waldon, M.G (2012) “Assessment of Mineral Concentration Impacts from Pumped Stormwater on an Everglades Wetland, Florida, USA – Using a Spatially-Explicit Model,” Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier 452-453, pages 25-39.

Allison, M.A., Demas, C.R., Ebersole, B.A., Kleis, B.A., Little, C.D., Meselhe, E.A., Powell, N.J., Pratt, T.C. and Vosburg, B.M. (2012) “A Water and Sediment Budget for the Lower Mississippi–Atchafalaya River in Flood Years 2008–2010: Implications for Sediment Discharge to the Oceans and Ccoastal Restoration in Louisiana,” Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier 432-433, pages 84-97.

2011


Michot, B., Meselhe, E.A., Rivera-Monroy, V.H., Coronado-Molina, C. and Twilley, R.R. (2011) “A Tidal Creek Water Budget: Estimation of Groundwater Discharge and Overland Flow using Hydrologic Modeling in the Southern Everglades,” Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 93(4), pages 438-448.

2010


Kheiashy, K., McCorquodale, J, Georgiou, I, and Meselhe, E.A. (2010) “Three Dimensional Hydrodynamic Modeling Over Bed Forms in Open Channels,” International Journal of Sediment Research, Science Direct, Elsevier, 25- 431-440.

Rivera-Monroy, V.H., Twilley, R.R., Davis, S.E., III, Childers, D.L., Simard, M., Chambers, R., Jaffe, R., Boyer, J.N., Rudnick, D.T., Zhang, K., Casta˜neda-Moya, E., Ewe, S., Price, R.M., Coronado-Molina, C., Ross, M., Smith, T.J., III, Michot, B., Meselhe, E.A., Nuttle, W., Troxler, T. and Noe, G.B. (2010) “The Role of the Everglades Mangrove Ecotone Region (EMER) in Regulating Nutrient Cycling and Wetland Productivity in South Florida,” Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 41(S1), pages 1–37.

Allison, M.A. and Meselhe, E.A. (2010) “The Use of Large Water and Sediment Diversions in the Lower Mississippi River (Louisiana) for Coastal Restoration,” Journal of Hydrology, vol. 387, pages 346-360.

Meselhe, E.A., Waldon, M.G., Arceneaux, J.C. (2010) “Water Budget Model for a Remnant Northern Everglades Wetland,” Journal of Hydraulic Research, vol. 48(1), pages 100-105.

Rego, J., Meselhe, E.A., Stronach, J., and Habib, E. (2010) “Numerical Modeling of the Mississippi-Atchafalaya Rivers’ Sediment Transport and Fate: Considerations for Diversion Scenarios,” Journal of Coastal Research, vol. 26(2), pages 212-229.

2009


Meselhe, E.A., Habib, E.H., Oche, O.C., and Gautam, S. (2009) “Sensitivity of Conceptual and Physically Based Hydrologic Models to Temporal and Spatial Rainfall Sampling,” Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, vol. 14(7), pages 655-771.

Wang, H., Waldon, M.G., Meselhe, E.A., Arceneaux, J., Chen, C., and Harwell, M.C. (2009) “Surface Water Sulfate Dynamics in the Northern Florida Everglades, USA,” Journal of Environmental Quality, vol. 38, pages 734-741.

Pereira, J.F., McCorquodale, J.A., Meselhe, E.A., Georgiou, I.Y., and Allison, M.A., (2009) “Numerical Simulation of Bed Material Transport in the Lower Mississippi River,” Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 56, pages 1449-1453, ISSN 0749-0258.

2008


Habib, E., Meselhe, E.A. and Aduvala, A. (2008) “Effect of Local Errors of Tipping-Bucket Rain Gauges on Rainfall-Runoff Simulations,” ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, vol. 13(6), pages 411-528.

Wang, H., Meselhe, E.A., Waldon, M.G., Surratt, D., Abdou, S., Chen, C. and Harwell, M. C. (2008) “Compartment Design for Wetland Water Quality Modeling in the Northern Florida Everglades, USA,” Journal of Environmental Hydrology, vol. 16(1).

Habib, E., Aduvala, A. and Meselhe, E. A. (2008) “Analysis of Radar-rainfall Error Characteristics and Implications for Streamflow Simulations Uncertainty,” Journal of Hydrologic Sciences, vol. 53(3), 568.

Habib, E., Larson, B., Nuttle, W.K., Nelson, B., Rivera-Monroy, V.H., Meselhe, E.A. and Twilley, R.R. (2008) “Effect of Rainfall Spatial Variability and Sampling on Salinity Prediction in an Estuarine System,” Journal of Hydrology, vol. 350/1-2, 56-67, doi:10.1016/j. jhydrol.2007. 11.034.

2007


Meselhe, E.A. and Hebert, K. (2007) “Laboratory Measurements of Flow through Culverts,” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, vol. 133(8).

Habib, E., Nuttle, W. K., Rivera-Monroy, V.H., Gautum, S., Meselhe, E.A., and Twilley, R.R. (2007) “Assessing Effects of Data Limitations on Salinity Forecasting in Barataria Basin, Louisiana, Using a Bayesian Analysis,” Journal of Coastal Research, 23(3), pages 749-763.

2006


Habib, E.H. and Meselhe, E.A. (2006) “Stage-Discharge relations for Low-gradient Tidal Streams Using Data-Driven Models,” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, vol. 132(5).

2005


Meselhe, E.A., Habib, E.H., Griborio, A.G., Chen, C., Gautam, S., McCorquodale, J.A., Georgiou, I.Y. and Stronach, J.A. (2005) “Multidimensional Modeling of the Lower Mississippi River,” Estuarine and Coastal Modeling, pages 52-71.

2004


Meselhe, E.A., Ogden, F.L. and Forrest, Holly F.M. Jr. (2004) “Modeling of Supercritical Flow Conditions Revisited; New Scheme by Vedrana Kutija and Caspar J M. Hewett,” Discussion, Journal of Hydraulic Research, IAHR, vol. 42(6).

Hanchey, J.R., Calhoun, C.C., Jr., Hayes, D.F., Hatch, H.J., Abt, S.R., Meselhe, E.A., Boutwell, G.P., Jr., Izzo, D., Durrant, J.E., Galloway, G.E., Jr. and Priscoli, J.D. (2004) “Restoring Coastal Louisiana Enhancing the Role of Engineering and Science in the Restoration Program,” White paper prepared by the Task Committee on America’s WETLAND for the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Meslhe, E.A., Peeva, T. and Muste, M.V.I. (2004) “Large Scale Particle Image Velocimetry for Low Velocity and Shallow Water Flows,” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, vol. 130(9).

2003


Meselhe, E.A. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2003) “Three Dimensional Numerical Model for Open Channels with Free Surface Variations,” Discussion – Journal of Hydraulic Research, IAHR, vol. 41(1).

2002


Bradley A.A., Kruger, A., Meselhe, E.A. and Muste, M.V.I. (2002) “Low Flow Measurement in Streams Using Video Imagery,” Water Resources Research, 38(12), 1315, doi: 10.1029/2002WR001317.

2001


Muste, M., Meselhe, E.A., Weber, L., and Bradley, A. A. (2001) “Coupled Physical-Numerical Analysis of Flows in Natural Waterways,” Journal of Hydraulic Research, IAHR, vol. 39(1), pages 51-60.

2000


Meselhe, E.A. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2000) “Three Dimensional Numerical Model for Open Channels with Free Surface Variations,” Journal of Hydraulic Research, IAHR, vol. 38(2), pages 115-121.

Meselhe, E.A., Weber, L.A, Odgaard, A.J. and Johnson, T. (2000) “Numerical Modeling for Fish Diversion Studies,” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, vol. 126(5), pages 365-374.


1999


Meselhe, E.A. (1999) “Computer Applications in Hydraulic Engineering,” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, vol. 125(6).

Atanov, G.A., Evaseeva, E.G., and Meselhe, E.A. (1999) “Estimation of the Roughness Profile in Trapezoidal Open Channels,” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, vol. 125(3).

1998


Meselhe, E.A., and Odgaard, A.J. (1998) “Three-Dimensional Numerical Flow Model for Fish Diversion Studies at Wanapum Dam,” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, vol. 124(12).

Meselhe, E.A., Bradley, A., Kruger, A. and Muste, M. (1998) “PIV and Numerical Modeling for Flow Estimation and Analysis in Coastal Marshes” Recent Research in Coastal Louisiana: Natural System Function and Response to Human Influences, A symposium convened by the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium 3-5 February 1998, Lafayette, Louisiana.

1997


Meselhe, E.A., Sotiropoulos, F., and Holly, F.M. Jr. (1997) “Numerical Simulation of Transcritical Flow in Open Channels,” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, vol. 123(9).

Meselhe, E.A. and Holly, F.M. Jr. (1997) “Invalidity of the Preissmann Scheme for Transcritical Flow,” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, vol. 123(7).

1993


Meselhe, E.A. and Holly, F.M. Jr. (1993) “Simulation of Unsteady Flow in Irrigation Canals with Dry Bed,” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, vol. 119 (9).