Coastal zones around the globe experience rapid development and change, and the Mediterranean, and in particular the Southern and Eastern parts, is undergoing dramatic demographic and related socio-economic development with growing and conflicting demands on natural resources. This leads to often irreversible degradation of these resources including the littoral and sub-littoral zones and thus ...

Bridge structures along the coasts are often subjected to hydrodynamics loads of various forms and intensities. The most dramatic loads are those due to tsunamis and storm surges as vividly demonstrated by images of the Dec. 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the Sept. 2005 Katrina Hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Other loads include wave impact, current induced scour, and floating debris impact. Th...

1 New England Aquarium, Boston, MA, USA, 2 Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, USA, 3 Right Whale Ecology Program, Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, MA, USA, 4 Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC, USA, 5 Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA, 6 Nicholas Sc...

extended abstractintroductiontoday, large number of world’s major cities is located in coastal environments these towns have and all important positions in the economic, cultural and social functions. coastal areas and the cities located in they are economically very important in terms of the environment, sensitive to many of factors influencing and physically, against a variety of natural haza...

1 Department of Global Change Research, Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universitat de les Illes Balears, Esporles, Illes Balears, Spain 2 Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry Research, School of Environment, Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia 3 Laboratório de Biotecnologia de Algas, Departament...

Empetrum nigrum L. (Empetraceae) is a species of ethnopharmacological significance to native North Americans. The Haida people of coastal British Columbia used a decoction of the branches of this shrub to treat tuberculosis and other ailments (Turner, personal communication). This research was supported by the Canadian Bacterial Diseases Network, Inflazyme Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Vancouver, B. C....

Coastal ocean processes are complicated and they happen as various phenomena that span a vast range of spatial and temporal scales. For instance, general circulations of oceans occur at global scales (Wunsch & Ferrari, 2004). Tropical waves that eventually impact coastal waters propagate with wavelengths of one thousand kilometers and periods of one month (Legeckis et al., 1983). Langmuir cells...

Dave Wells is Professor Emeritus in the Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering at UNB, as well as Professor in the Dept. of Marine Science at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM), and Adjunct Professor in the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire. Dave's academic interests include geodesy, applied bathymetry, kinematic positioning, water levels and ...