3D Physical Modeling of an Artificial Beach Nourishment: Laboratory Procedures and Nourishment Performance

The Effects of Artificial Beach Nourishment on Marine Turtles: Differences between Loggerhead and Green Turtles

Marine turtle reproductive success is correlated with the stability and quality of the nesting environment. Female marine turtles show fidelity to nesting beaches, making artificial beach nourishment practices directly relevant to their recovery. We evaluated the impacts of artificial beach nourishment on Loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and Green turtles (Chelonia mydas) between artificially nouri...

Macrofaunal sediment selectivity considerations for beach nourishment programmes.

Nowadays, beach nourishment is widely considered as a better alternative compared to the construction of hard structures to protect a sandy coast against detrimental erosive effects, both from an ecological and an engineering perspective. The rare studies conducted on the ecological impact of beach nourishment are short-term, post hoc monitoring investigations of the benthic macrofauna. Little ...

Environmental Impact of Beach Nourishment: A Case Study of the Rio San Pedro Beach (SW Spain)

The beaches on the left bank of Rio San Pedro (SW Spain) are in a regressive state because of the human activities of recent decades. With the objective of minimizing the effects of the erosion, the Spanish Coastal Department (Ministry of the Environment) decided that the most suitable solution was to provide sand nourishment. Previously, an environmental impact study (EIS) was carried out on t...

Nourishment while fasting.

Being in the hospice business does not give one a getout-of-mourning-free card. Death that is personal is so very different from death I encounter in my professional role. My father, Peter Serrell, died in November after a 10-day elective fast, 7 weeks before his 94th birthday. He had been in the hospital for a couple of days with a poorly defined problem in his gut, where ischemic colitis was ...

Nourishment and the ethics of lament.