Search Results - "ADAMS, Peter N"
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Degradation and resilience in Louisiana salt marshes after the BP–Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (10-07-2012)“…More than 2 y have passed since the BP– Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, yet we still have little understanding of its ecological impacts…”
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The unsteady nature of sea cliff retreat due to mechanical abrasion, failure and comminution feedbacks
Published in Geomorphology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (15-08-2014)“…Sea cliff retreat is often linked to large waves, heavy precipitation and seismic events, but the specific operative mechanics have not been well constrained…”
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Recent shifts in coastline change and shoreline stabilization linked to storm climate change
Published in Earth surface processes and landforms (01-04-2015)“…Since cuspate coastlines are especially sensitive to changes in wave climate, they serve as potential indicators of initial responses to changing wave…”
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Effects of climate change and wave direction on longshore sediment transport patterns in Southern California
Published in Climatic change (01-12-2011)“…Changes in deep-water wave climate drive coastal morphologic change according to unique shoaling transformation patterns of waves over local shelf bathymetry…”
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Southern California Deep-Water Wave Climate: Characterization and Application to Coastal Processes
Published in Journal of coastal research (01-07-2008)“…We consider the effect of decadal climate change on the historic wave climate of the Southern California Bight (SCB) using a 50 year hindcast record (1948–98)…”
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Development of the Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS) for predicting the impact of storms on high-energy, active-margin coasts
Published in Natural hazards (Dordrecht) (01-11-2014)“…The Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS) applies a predominantly deterministic framework to make detailed predictions (meter scale) of storm-induced coastal…”
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Intertidal sand body migration along a megatidal coast, Kachemak Bay, Alaska
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface (01-06-2007)“…Using a digital video‐based Argus Beach Monitoring System (ABMS) on the north shore of Kachemak Bay in south central Alaska, we document the timing and…”
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Modeling large-scale shoreline change caused by complex bathymetry in low-angle wave climates
Published in Marine geology (01-01-2017)“…Coastlines where waves consistently approach at highly oblique angles experience anti-diffusional behavior, causing perturbations to grow seaward and form sand…”
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Leveraging successional facilitation to improve restoration of foundational dune grasses along a frequently disturbed coastline
Published in Restoration ecology (01-09-2024)“…Coastal ecosystems provide critical storm and flood protection but are rapidly degrading worldwide, making their restoration urgent. We evaluated whether…”
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On the Potential for Remote Observations of Coastal Morphodynamics from Surf-Cameras
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-04-2022)“…Recreational surf-cameras (surfcams) are ubiquitous along many coastlines, and yet are a largely untapped source of coastal morphodynamic observations…”
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Beach Morphodynamics influenced by an ebb-tidal delta on the north Florida Atlantic coast
Published in Earth surface processes and landforms (15-06-2016)“…Tidal inlets interrupt longshore sediment transport, thereby exerting an influence on adjacent beach morphology. To investigate the details and spatial extent…”
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GEOAppS: Interactive Numerical Models of Geomorphic Processes and Application in a Post-Secondary Coastal Processes Course
Published in Journal of geoscience education (2022)“…The vast extent to which quantitative prerequisites vary among post-secondary geoscience programs often presents a challenge for educators and students alike…”
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Application of Bayesian Networks to hindcast barrier island morphodynamics
Published in Coastal engineering (Amsterdam) (01-08-2015)“…Prediction of coastal vulnerability is of increasing concern to policy makers, coastal managers and other stakeholders. Coastal regions and barrier islands…”
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Soft-Cliff Retreat in a Tropical Coast: The Minuto de Dios Sector, Caribbean Coast of Colombia
Published in Journal of coastal research (01-09-2018)“…Paniagua-Arroyave, J.F.; Correa, I.D.; Anfuso, G., and Adams, P.N., 2018. Soft-cliff retreat in a tropical coast: The Minuto de Dios sector, Caribbean coast of…”
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Quantifying Seasonal‐to‐Interannual‐Scale Storm Impacts on Morphology Along a Cuspate Coast With a Hybrid Empirical Orthogonal Function Approach
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Earth surface (01-12-2020)“…The direct impacts of storms on beaches have been well studied; less well understood are the controls of storms on their seasonal‐interannual evolution. We…”
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Estimating the potential economic impacts of climate change on Southern California beaches
Published in Climatic change (01-12-2011)“…Climate change could substantially alter the width of beaches in Southern California. Climate-driven sea level rise will have at least two important impacts on…”
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SurfRCaT: A tool for remote calibration of pre-existing coastal cameras to enable their use as quantitative coastal monitoring tools
Published in SoftwareX (01-07-2020)“…The Surf-camera Remote Calibration Tool (SurfRCaT) is a Python-based software application to calibrate and rectify images from pre-existing video cameras that…”
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Coastal cliff ground motions from local ocean swell and infragravity waves in southern California
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research (01-09-2011)“…Ground motions atop a southern California, USA coastal cliff are compared with water level fluctuations observed at the cliff base, and with ground motions…”
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Unraveling the dynamics that scale cross-shore headland relief on rocky coastlines: 1. Model development
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Earth surface (01-04-2014)“…We have developed an exploratory model of plan view, millennial‐scale headland and bay evolution on rocky coastlines. Cross‐shore coastline relief, or…”
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Cross-shore decay of cliff top ground motions driven by local ocean swell and infragravity waves
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans (01-06-2012)“…Ground motions at the frequencies (between 0.01 and 0.1 Hz) of ocean infragravity and swell waves were observed on a cross‐shore transect extending landward…”
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