Methodology of quantifying key metrics for habitat change

Modeling grids from the ROMS model developed for Suisun Bay as part of CASCaDE were provided by Dr. Neil Ganju, our invited speaker and collaborator (Ganju and Schoellhamer 2010). We evaluated existing modeling grids and methods for quantifying key metrics of habitat change in the South Bay. A series of metrics for habitat change may be created by analyzing geomorphic change from these scenarios, and it is expected that model grid cell size will determine the spatial scale of the metrics. Limitations in use of output from hydrodynamic-sediment, transport geomorphic models on habitat metrics would be part of such an analysis.