Browsing by Subject "shoreline change"
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A Physical and Controversial Analysis of Shoreline Change on North Carolina’s Barrier Islands
(2010-04-24)With the density of development in North Carolina’s coastal counties at an unprecedented high, the encroaching ocean is met with a heightened sense of urgency by coastal property owners. In this urgent call for coastal ... -
An Analysis of the Correlation between Shoreline Curvature and Shoreline Change along the Gulf of Mexico and the Mid-Atlantic Coast of the United States
(2016-04-26)Increasing human development along the coast, together with climate change and sea level rise, has drastically changed the shape of the coastline. Because of the widespread impacts of shoreline change, studies have been ... -
Investigating Regional Patterns of Shoreline Change
(2009)My doctoral work stems from an original motivation to understand more closely why some areas of sandy coastlines erode and others accrete<—>an intriguing fundamental question and one of societal relevance wherever human ... -
Natural Resource Management at South Topsail Beach, NC
(2007-08-31)The undeveloped southern tip of Topsail Island, NC, known as South Topsail Beach, has been accreting land and extending southwest into New Topsail Inlet at the rate of approximately 100 feet per year for the past decade, ... -
Shoreline Change on the East Coast: Exploring the Role of Shoreline Curvature
(2015-04-24)The low sloping sandy shoreline of the East Coast is one of the most dynamic and complicated systems influenced by a series of factors. Shoreline curvature has been mentioned in several pieces of literature as one of these ...
