Investigate and model the mechanisms of saltwater intrusion into the coastal karstic aquifers of the Caribbean (underway).

UNESCO: Jamaica: Actividades Bienios Anteriores

Never in the history of Louisiana that anybody has known to have that kind of--that much saltwater intrusion.

NPR: Hurricanes Deal Sugar Industry a Serious Blow

It's also due to the Corps allowing oil companies to dredge shipping channels through the wetlands, thereby encouraging saltwater intrusion, which kills the marshes.

CNN: Your e-mails: 'Clean up our wetlands'

Mr. LeBLANC: No one has ever experienced, in all the days that I've been here, that saltwater intrusion like we've had this storm here, this last storm.

NPR: Hurricanes Deal Sugar Industry a Serious Blow

These changes are making water supply and quality more difficult to obtain, affecting runoff and soil moisture, increasing water temperatures, decreasing snowpack and lake and river ice, threatening fish and aquatic species, and allowing saltwater intrusion and sea level rise.

FORBES: Water Risk Threatens Businesses, National Security