As a part of the FreshWater Watch project aiming to promote volunteers' water monitoring in 25 cities around the world, St. Lawrence River water quality was characterized at 28 public shoreline parks around Montreal Island, Quebec, Canada. This involved training of 69 citizen scientists by researchers of the Université de Montréal in five one-day sessions. Shoreline sampling yielded 174 data po...

Standing on a gently sloping straight beach, it is a matter of observation that various waveforms propagate on the surface of the sea. Among these we find edge waves water waves that progress along the shoreline. These waves, often difficult to visualize (this has, probably, prevented the regarding of this waveform as important for a long time), are coastal trapped, i.e. their amplitude is maxi...

Constraining the exchange of water from the shoreline to the mid-shelf is necessary for the development of accurate and predictive models of nearshore circulation. Ra isotopes, which emanate from sediments and have a variety of half-lives, may be useful in measuring cross-shelf mixing rates. The distributions of Ra isotopes were measured in transects extending perpendicular from the shoreline a...

Living shorelines are a type of estuarine shoreline erosion control that incorporates native vegetation and preserves native habitats. Because they provide the ecosystem services associated with natural coastal wetlands while also increasing shoreline resilience, living shorelines are part of the natural and hybrid infrastructure approach to coastal resiliency. Marshes created as living shoreli...

Introduction: The possible presence of confined bodies of standing water on early Mars has been postulated for many years, both as large oceans [e.g., 1-5] and as lakes associated with impact crater or intercrater basins [e.g., 6-10]. The northern ocean hypothesis was tested using Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) elevations along two suggested shorelines, resulting in a fairly poor geopotent...

The over 3,000 kilometers of Great Lakes shoreline in Ontario is home to several million people. It is a rich complex natural ecosystem with a diversity of natural features and landforms ranging from steep vertical rock cliffs, sandy beaches and dunes, glacial till shorelines, to wetlands. The Great Lakes shoreline has also experienced tremendous land use pressures and human activities most not...

Shoreline erosion problems caused by global warming and sea level rising may result in losing of land areas, so it should be examined regularly to reduce possible negative impacts. Initially in this study, three sets of survey images obtained from the years of 1990, 2001, and 2010, respectively, are digitalized by using graphical software to establish the spatial coordinates of six major beache...

This study combines bathymetric, geomorphological, geological data and oil spill predictions to model the impact of oil spills in two accident scenarios from offshore Crete, Eastern Mediterranean. The aim is to present a new three-step method of use by emergency teams and local authorities in the assessment of shoreline and offshore susceptibility to oil spills. The three-step method comprises:...

eighteen kilometers long coastal stretch from the new mangalore port in the north totalapadi in the south has been studied in order to understand shoreline changes and erosion/ accretion patterns that have taken place due to the natural processes and anthropogenic activities. shoreline changes and quantification of beach erosion/accretion were made using the survey of india topomap, multidated ...

was seeking a courier believed to be connected to Osama bin Laden. The courier was known as Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, and his identity had been confirmed by more than one captured high-level al-Qaeda operative. In 2010, a telephone wiretap of a suspect led intelligence analysts to al-Kuwaiti. On the basis of this connection, al-Kuwaiti was eventually located in August 2010 and was tracked to a comp...