Globally the coastal zone is suffering the collateral damage from continuing urban development and construction, expanding resource sectors, increasing population, regulation to river flow, and on-going land change and degradation. While protection of natural coastal habitat is recommended, balancing conservation with human services is now the challenge for managers. Marine infrastructure such ...

Global climate change and concomitant rising sea level will have a profound impact on Florida’s coastal and marine systems. Sea-level rise will increase erosion of beaches, cause saltwater intrusion into water supplies, inundate coastal marshes and other important habitats, and make coastal property more vulnerable to erosion and flooding. Yet most coastal areas are currently managed under the ...

The Chinese coastline is 32000 km long. The 12 coastal provinces are very important in terms of population and their contribution to the economy, and contain 41.9% and 72.5% of China’s total, respectively. There are 8 coastal vulnerable areas and most of them are related to large deltas which presently have a large sediment-supply. 70% of muddy and sandy coasts suffer from erosion, but the main...

The present-day study of coastal morphodynamics involves a dynamic field of research in which combinations of coastal monitoring, process-oriented laboratory and field work, modelling studies and Data-Model Integration techniques enhance our capabilities to understand and predict coastal systems and their evolution. Innovations in coastal research and coastal instrumentation strongly interact a...

This Coastal and Hydraulic Engineering Technical Note (CHETN) summarizes the state of understanding of the influence of grain size on surf zone sediment transport and is a companion to Smith et al. (2004). This CHETN discusses details of bed-load and suspended load transport, and the classical bed-load regime is shown to encompass two distinct modes of transport. Four LST models with varying le...

Considerable coastal infrastructure has been developed in Chile over the last two decades, and the impetus for this study was based on concerns with the lack of consistency utilized in the coastal engineering design process, beginning with, but not limited to, the definition of the wave conditions. The available wave records in Chile are of very limited duration, thus many designers rely on a v...

Yu Zhang 1, Vijay P. Singh 1,2,* and Aaron R. Byrd 3 1 Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840, USA; [email protected] 2 Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2117, USA 3 Hydrologic Systems Branch, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Engineer Research Development Center, U.S. Arm...

The Hydromechanics Laboratory supports midshipmen education, as well as midshipmen, faculty and staff research, in the areas of naval architecture and ocean engineering. The laboratory facilities include a large towing tank (380-ft long, 26ft wide, and 16-ft deep), a small towing tank (120-ft long, 8-ft wide, and 5-ft deep), a coastal engineering wave basin (52-ft long, 48-ft wide, and 2-ft dee...