Beaches and Ports

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Beaches, bays and headlands

We consider local and global combinatorial constraints on embeddings of a simple closed curve in a rectangular array of unit squares in which the curve lies entirely within the rectangular array and passes through each unit square once. Geographical terminology is convenient to describe the embeddings. We study shortest segments of the embedded curve with no clockwise quarter turns (bays) and a...

Valuing Great Lakes Beaches

This study aims to estimate the recreational use values of Great Lakes beaches using a two-level nested logit Random Utility Model. The choice set contains all 594 public Great Lakes beaches in Michigan. Beach sites located in the same Great Lakes water body are arranged into a nest. The trip data were obtained from a 2006 online survey using a web-panel of Michigan adults accessed through Surv...

Morphology and Morphodynamics of Sandy Beaches

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Sandy beach morphology 2.1. Primary beach profile 2.2. Secondary morphological features 2.3. Micro-morphology 2.4. Scale and composite morphological features 3. Environmental boundary conditions and external hydrodynamic forcing 3.1. Boundary conditions 3.2. Hydrodynamic forcing 4. Morphological change 4.

Plastics and beaches: a degrading relationship.

Plastic debris in Earth's oceans presents a serious environmental issue because breakdown by chemical weathering and mechanical erosion is minimal at sea. Following deposition on beaches, plastic materials are exposed to UV radiation and physical processes controlled by wind, current, wave and tide action. Plastic particles from Kauai's beaches were sampled to determine relationships between co...