Co-Measurement of Beaches in Maine, USA: Volunteer Profiling of Beaches and Annual Meetings

Co-Measurement of Beaches in Maine, USA: Volunteer Profiling of Beaches and Annual Meetings

Maine's tourist beaches have experienced chronic erosion for a long time. Efforts by scientists and government planners to regulate development have run into conflict with property owners. To reconcile the two groups, a beach profiling project was begun to better understand the behavior of beac...

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Published in:Journal of coastal research Vol. 36; no. sp1; pp. 374 - 380
Main Authors: Hill, Heather Heinze, Kelley, Joseph T., Belknap, Daniel F., Dickson, Stephen M.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Fort Lauderdale Coastal Education and Research Foundation 01-03-2002
COASTAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. [CERF]
Allen Press Inc
Subjects:
Accretion
Beach accretion
Beach erosion
beach volume
Beaches
Coastal erosion
currents
Data collection
Deposition
New England
Profiling
Storms
waves
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Summary:Maine's tourist beaches have experienced chronic erosion for a long time. Efforts by scientists and government planners to regulate development have run into conflict with property owners. To reconcile the two groups, a beach profiling project was begun to better understand the behavior of beaches as well as to bring the regulators and regulated together. Early results have demonstrated that southwest storms lead to beach accretion; northeast storms lead to erosion. A web site and an annual meeting where the data are presented have each proven very popular. This program of involving volunteers to gather otherwise-hard-to-collect data has been very successful and would work in many other locations.
ISSN:0749-0208
1551-5036
DOI:10.2112/1551-5036-36.sp1.374