Waves, tide, and wind dominate coastal processes and landforms. Rivers deliver sediment to the coast, where it can be reworked to form deltas, beaches, dunes, and barrier islands. The coastal zone is ...

A newly funded program to accelerate the science behind coastal bluff failures was signed into law this week. The bill, AB 66, outlines enhanced coastal monitoring to better understand the timing of ...

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Adam Young is a coastal geomorphologist at Scripps institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. He received his bachelor’s degree from Cal Poly University San Luis Obispo in ...

One of the greatest challenges facing coastal communities during extreme storms is to predict where, and when, coastal flooding might occur. To overcome that, scientists from the University of ...

By representing these complex coastal processes, you get an improved representation of the carbon balance in the E3SM Land Model, Sulman said. Sulman, O'Meara and colleagues reached a milestone ...

Students at North Point High School are excited about making waves in the classroom as they put their engineering design skills to work, thanks to an innovative device called a wave flume that has ...

The Cape Cod Times is taking a deep dive into coastal erosion issues on Cape Cod and Nantucket. Coastal erosion is a natural process that has historically shaped Cape Cod's landscape. Human ...