Look at past sea-level rise points to troubling future
...ry have been sufficient to dramatically change the shoreline of the U.S. Gulf Coast within the past 10,000 year... to guide us, devising an accurate model for local shoreline change will be difficult because there is a complex interplay between global events -- like what's h...The Academy of Natural Sciences investigates effects of climate change on Delaware tidal marshes
... services. They buffer storm and floodwaters, slow shoreline erosion, absorb excess nutrients before they reach oceans and estuaries, and provide nursery habitat for fishes....Water research initiatives at UW-Madison
...ORELINE To help local governments plan and manage shoreline development, a UW-Madison group of geological engi...cterizing the state of erosion along the Wisconsin shoreline of Lake Superior. Hoping to estimate how much bluff recession will occur within the next half centur...San Francisco State University receives JavaOne award
...nt, is operating in the San Francisco Bay near the shoreline of the Romberg Tiburon Center in Marin County. "This isn't simply a case of industry providing support to higher education," said Professor Dragutin Petkovic, chair of the SFSU Computer Science Department. "I believe that this project points to a n...Scientists find evidence of catastrophic sand avalanches, sea level changes in Gulf of Mexico
...ars ago, when sea level fell so low that the Texas shoreline shifted almost 100 miles to the south. The data are important to reconstructing climate change history and gathering insights about the development and placement of natural resources, particularly gas and oil deposits. "The basin we chose to study is...Oysters: The natural way to protect our shores
...ted oyster shell reefs as opposed to other heavier shoreline protection structures (i.e. limestone rock breakwa... shell reefs has the potential to provide a useful shoreline stabilization tool to coastal managers under low energy environments."...Computers close in on protein structure prediction
...the more likely one of them is to stumble onto the shoreline of the Dead Sea the Earth's lowest point on land not covered by water. Each of the thousands of computer simulations is like one explorer. Although the 33 percent success rate reported in the Science paper might be good enough to secure hall-of-fame...Flawed studies assess dredge-and-fill programs to protect coastlines
... projects have become a common method of combating shoreline erosion as sea level rises and major storms become more common. Such "beach nourishment" projects deposit millions of cubic meters of fill in beach systems. This can bury shallow reefs and degrade other beach habitats, depressing nesting in sea turtl...Groundwater sampling goes tubular
... the river. But they could not be installed on the shoreline because the area is difficult to access with a drill rig, is often under water and is culturally and ecologically sensitive. Because the installation and sampling equipment is lightweight and easily transported, researchers are able to access many si...Fish in ponds benefit flowering plants
...g fish, the other four fish-free. They found that shoreline St. John's wort plants near the fish ponds were far better pollinated than those near the fish-free ponds. The reason? Fish reduce, if not decimate, dragonfly populations when they start their lives in the ponds as larvae. Those dragonflies that c...U. of Colorado researcher identifies tracks of swimming dinosaur in Wyoming
...d swimming dinosaur have been identified along the shoreline of an ancient inland sea that covered Wyoming 165 ... she said. "The tracks suggest it waded along the shoreline and swam offshore, perhaps to feed on fish or carrion." Mickelson will present her findings at the ...Coastal retreat in face of rising sea levels found to be influenced by wildfires
...to 40 centimeters per century -- along the western shoreline of two interconnected North Carolina estuaries, the Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds. As a starting point, Poulter took advantage of new higher-resolution digitized data that he said enable the first sensitive analysis of elevations lower than 1 meter a...New Science study: Mangroves shielded communities against tsunami
...efits of coastal forests against the tsunami. The shoreline there is relatively straight and the beach profile is relatively uniform. It also contains stretches of vegetated and non-vegetated areas and there are well-documented cloud-free pre- and post-tsunami satellite images. "Coastal vegetation could pro...Eruption update: Island in British Overseas Territory is growing in size
...ssibly several metres per second and extending the shoreline on the north side of the island. This event is special because Montagu Island is mostly ice covered and it's very rare that we get to make direct observations of eruptions under ice sheets'. 'My work usually involves studying Antarctic rock formatio...There's something fishy about human brain evolution
...umans eating clams, frogs, bird eggs and fish from shoreline environments. This is what created the necessary p...ds? According to Cunnane their moms were dining on shoreline delicacies like clams and catfish. "The shores gave us food security and higher nutrient density. My...MBL scientists to present research at 2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting
...by human activity for several centuries, including shoreline alteration, nutrient introduction, sedimentation, toxic compound release, and thermal modification. Mount Hope Bay, Massachusetts is an ideal site to base a study of human pathogen presence and distribution because it has several important sources of...Exxon Valdez oil found in tidal feeding grounds of ducks, sea otters
...ean-up efforts, Short estimates about six miles of shoreline is still affected by the spill and as much as 100 ...rchers randomly dug 662 pits along 32 stretches of shoreline on northern Knight Island, one of the earliest and worst affected areas during the spill. They found...Stevens and Monmouth Presidents to co-chair ASBPA National Scientific Shore and Beach Conference
...tem that provides hourly information on the coast, shoreline erosion and beach action. "Ocean and coastal engi...e in the nation has a greater stake in beaches and shoreline than New Jersey. Coastlines protect lives and protect property, support healthy living marine resour...Ancient raindrops reveal the origins of California's Sierra Nevada range
... to about 980 feet [300 meters] to where the ocean shoreline was roughly 40 million years ago," Mulch said. "I then analyzed the clay minerals in the lab to get an idea of what the isotopic composition of the water was at that time." When Mulch compared ancient raindrops in the clays with modern precipitatio...USGS at The Wildlife Society: From sea-ice change to contaminants to predators and prey
...smaller segment of the population is forced to use shoreline habitat. Other research suggests that prey resourc... Alaska, has created lush upland meadows along the shoreline that are desirable to both humans and bears (Ursus arctos and Ursus americanus). As the number of ba...