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Geotimes
October 2007
Jim Gibeaut |
Coastal Development: The Galveston Case, Part I Even following the disastrous 2005 hurricane season, barrier islands remain under increasing pressure from development in Texas and elsewhere.   |
Geotimes
February 2006
Robert S. Young |
The High Cost of Subsidized Coastal Development Coastal geologists, engineers and managers can objectively determine where the most vulnerable shorelines are. And in the interest of fairness, American taxpayers must insist that the communities that build there assume responsibility for themselves. |
Geotimes
November 2003
James C. Gibeaut |
LIDAR: Mapping a Shoreline by Laser Light The days of collecting beach profile data solely in the field are gone. Now coastal geologists are looking to the skies, using a new radar tool to study changes to the shoreline over large areas. |
Scientific American
October 24, 2005
Mark Fischetti |
Flood Control Protecting against the Next Katrina: Wetlands mitigate flooding, but are they too damaged in the gulf? |
Scientific American
December 26, 2005 |
Echoes from the Past Many scientists are encouraging officials in tsunami-prone areas to consider such factors as destroyed protective natural barriers like coral reefs and sand dunes when designing new building codes and evacuation routes. |
Geotimes
November 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Louisiana's Marshland Mess Even before the past season's devastating hurricanes, Louisiana's wetlands were in rough shape. More than a century of building dams, levees and canals to control the Mississippi River changed the wetlands, limiting sediment and leading to soil compaction from the loss of vegetation. |
Wired
December 22, 2008
David Wolman |
Before the Levees Break: A Plan to Save the Netherlands Global warming is a cause for serious concern in low-lying countries. The Dutch aren't waiting for a catastrophe; they're taking measures to solve the problem now. |
Geotimes
August 2004
Jay Chapman |
Roving Oregon's Dunes Oregon Dunes is the largest coastal dune system in North America and visitors often see dune-buggies, rather than rovers, wandering the landscape that looks as alien as the scenes from Mars. |
Geotimes
August 2007
Megan Sever |
Restoring the River Since Katrina struck, one thing has become clear, researchers say: Restoration of the natural system is of paramount importance to saving New Orleans in the long run, and the time to act is now. |
IDB America
April 2008
Dan Drosdoff |
Barbados Priority: Protecting the Coastline Improvements and investments have succeeded in stabilizing the Barbados coastline, but the rehabilitation and shoreline protection process is continuous, and the possibilities of setbacks are a constant menace. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2007
Chris Dixon |
Re-engineering America's Beaches, 1 Tax Dollar at a Time Pumping sediment onto the nation's beaches is an expensive fix for the erosion caused by coastal development and often a bad fix at that. |
BusinessWeek
November 8, 2004
Gene G. Marcial |
A Developer Sitting Pretty Beside the Pacific Shares of California Coastal Communities, a builder and developer, have doubled this year as value and asset-play investors bought in. Its most valuable asset is 350 acres in Orange County, Calif., that overlook the Pacific Ocean and the Bolsa Chica wetlands. |
Geotimes
June 2006
John Rowland |
Coastal Maryland: On the Lookout for Ghosts, Fish and Fossils Point Lookout, Md., has beautiful coastlines along the Chesapeake Bay, where recreational opportunities abound, including boating and fishing. The region has a rich geologic and cultural history. |
Geotimes
June 2003 |
Geophenomena Evidence for Dust Bowl dust in Greenland... New sinking rates for Louisiana |
Popular Mechanics
March 2006 |
Now What? The lessons of Katrina |
Geotimes
February 2007
Natalie Stemp |
Prince Edward Island: Land Cradled on the Waves With a bounty of natural beauty by land and by sea, the island has a lot to offer the outdoor enthusiast, naturalist and history buff alike. |
Geotimes
August 2005
Megan Sever |
Confusion Over Sinking Coasts in Gulf A new federal report states that land in Louisiana and probably throughout the Gulf Coast has been sinking at a relative rate of more than 1.5 meters (5 feet) per century for at least the last 100 years -- a rate significantly higher than previous reports have shown. |
Geotimes
February 2004
Hetherington et al. |
Quest for the Lost Land The search for early Americans is taking researchers to the coast of British Columbia, where a now-submerged landscape may hold clues to the first settlers' coastal migration. |
| CEO Traveler |
Wild Dunes Resort Located on the tip of the Isle of Palms, off South Carolina's barrier coastline and 20 minutes from Charleston, Wild Dunes is a 1600-acre private oceanfront resort surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the Intercoastal Highway... |
