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Recent Advances in Coastal Storm Forecasting and Geologic Response
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Recent Advances in Coastal Storm Forecasting and Geologic Response

A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2018) | Viewed by 13287

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Cheryl Hapke

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St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S.Geological Survey (USGS), St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Interests: coastal morphology and geology; barrier island evolution; morphodynamic modeling; extreme storm impacts and recovery; coastal landslides; sediment budgets
Dr. Peter N. Adams

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Department of Geological Sciences, University Florida, 241 Williamson Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleauges,

Coastal regions of the world are inhabited by an estimated 40% of the global population. Intensification of weather events, changes in wave climates, and eustatic sea level rise associated with global climate change are resulting in populations, and the infrastructure that supports them, becoming increasingly vulnerable to storm-driven damage, erosion, and flooding. This Special Issue is intended to assemble recent significant scientific advances in the understanding of coastal morphologic response to, and recovery from, storms, as well as the forecasting of storm impacts, especially as they pertain to management, planning and decision-making. We encourage contributions that address topics of natural or human-influenced storm response and recovery along coasts of a wide range of geomorphic character including barrier islands, sandy beaches/shoreface, dunes, marsh, and mangrove coasts. Contributions can be based on field observations (including advancements in remote-sensing techniques), modeling, laboratory experiments, or a combination of methodologies.

Dr. Cheryl Hapke
Dr. Peter N. Adams
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Coastal storm processes
  • hurricanes
  • typhoons
  • predictive modeling
  • coupled beach-marsh response
  • storm recovery
  • recovery modeling
  • human-influenced change

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A Quantitative Assessment of the Annual Contribution of Platform Downwearing to Beach Sediment Budget: Happisburgh, England, UK
by Andres Payo, Mike Walkden, Michael A. Ellis, Andrew Barkwith, David Favis-Mortlock, Holger Kessler, Benjamin Wood, Helen Burke and Jonathan Lee
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2018, 6(4), 113; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse6040113 - 10 Oct 2018
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Field and numerical investigations at Happisburgh, East coast of England, UK, sought to characterize beach thickness and determine geologic framework controls on coastal change. After a major failure of coastal protection infrastructure, removal of about 1 km of coastal defence along the otherwise [...] Read more.
Field and numerical investigations at Happisburgh, East coast of England, UK, sought to characterize beach thickness and determine geologic framework controls on coastal change. After a major failure of coastal protection infrastructure, removal of about 1 km of coastal defence along the otherwise protected cliffed coastline of Happisburgh triggered a period of rapid erosion over 20 years of ca. 140 m. Previous sensitivity studies suggest that beach thickness plays a major role in coastal recession. These studies were limited, however, by a lack of beach volume data. In this study, we have integrated the insights gained from our understanding of the Quaternary geology of the area, a novel non-intrusive passive seismic survey method, and a 3D novel representation of the subsurface source and transportable material into a coastal modelling environment to explore the role of beach thickness on the back wearing and downwearing of the cliffs and consolidated platform, respectively. Results show that beach thickness is non-homogeneous along the study site: we estimate that the contribution to near-shore sediment budget via platform downwearing is of a similar order of magnitude as sediment lost from the beach and therefore non-negligible. We have provided a range of evidence to support the idea that the Happisburgh beach is a relatively thin layer perched on a sediment rich platform of sand and gravel. This conceptualization differs from previous publications, which assume that the platform was mostly till and fine material. This has direct implication on regional sediment management along this coastline. The present study contributes to our understanding of a poorly known aspect of coastal sediment budgeting and outlines a quantitative approach that allows for simple integration of geological understanding for coastline evolution assessments worldwide. Full article
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Coastal Geomorphology of a Holocene Hurricane Deposit on a Pleistocene Marine Terrace from Isla Carmen (Baja California Sur, Mexico)
by Markes E. Johnson, Jorge Ledesma-Vázquez and Rigoberto Guardado-France
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2018, 6(4), 108; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse6040108 - 21 Sep 2018
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This study reports the first example of major erosion from hurricanes degrading a rocky coastline anywhere around the Gulf of California, although other sources of evidence are well known regarding the effect of inland erosion due to catastrophic rainfall in the Southern Cape [...] Read more.
This study reports the first example of major erosion from hurricanes degrading a rocky coastline anywhere around the Gulf of California, although other sources of evidence are well known regarding the effect of inland erosion due to catastrophic rainfall in the Southern Cape Region of the Baja California peninsula and farther north. The uplifted, 12-m terrace on the eastern shore of Isla del Carmen is the site of an unconsolidated coastal boulder deposit (CBD) consisting of large limestone blocks and boulders eroded from underlying Pliocene strata. The CBD stretches approximately 1.5 km in length, mostly set back 25 m from the lip of the terrace. The largest blocks of upturned limestone near the terrace edge are estimated to weigh between 5.8 and 28 metric tons. Waves impacting the rocky coast that peeled back slabs of horizontally-layered limestone at this spot are calculated to have been between 11.5 and 14 m in height. Analysis of sampled boulders from the CBD set back from the terrace edge by 25 m suggest that the average wave height responsible for moving those boulders was on the order of 4.3 m. Additional localities with exposed limestone shores, as well as other more common rock types of igneous origin have yet to be surveyed for this phenomenon elsewhere around the Gulf of California. Full article
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