Fetch-limited barrier islands: Overlooked coastal landforms

Coastal Sand Sunes and Barrier Islands

Theoretical Interpretation of Fetch Limited Wind–driven Sea Observations

Among field studies of wind-generated surface gravity waves on deep water, the case of a fetch limited wave growth is of special importance. This case is characterized by a constant (in space and time) offshore wind at a normal angle to the straight coastline. Under these idealized conditions, the wave field depends only on the fetch x which is defined as a distance from the shoreline. Highly i...

Wind Wave Behavior in Fetch and Depth Limited Estuaries

Wetland dominated estuaries serve as one of the most productive natural ecosystems through their ecological, economic and cultural services, such as nursery grounds for fisheries, nutrient sequestration, and ecotourism. The ongoing deterioration of wetland ecosystems in many shallow estuaries raises concerns about the contributing erosive processes and their roles in restraining coastal restora...

Are We Protecting the Beneficial Functions of Coastal Landforms? an Analysis of Activities Permitted on Coastal Landforms on Cape Cod in 1999

Chesapeake Bay, the Nation’s largest estuary, has been adversely impacted by excess nutrients. Excess nutrients have caused low dissolved oxygen levels leading to loss of fisheries and other living resources. The Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) is leading an effort to reduce nutrient sources and loads in the Bay watershed to meet dissolved oxygen criteria in the Bay by 2010. The U.S. Geological Su...

Self-organized pattern formation in coastal barrier