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Montgomery, Marilyn Christina. "Beach nourishment at Pensacola Beach, Florida assessment of public perception /." [Pensacola, Fla.] : University of West Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/WFE0000011.
Full textBlott, Simon James. "Morphological and sedimentological changes on artificially nourished beaches, Lincolnshire, U.K." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396149.
Full textPietro, Lisa S. "Developing terrestrial-LIDAR-based digital elevation models for monitoring beach nourishment performance." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 89 p, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1400424071&sid=10&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textGallaher, Aubree A. "The effects of beach nourishment on sea turtle nesting densities in Florida." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0041087.
Full textCarey, Erin S. "The effects of beach renourishment on benthic microalgae /." Electronic version (PDF), 2005. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2005/careye/erincarey.pdf.
Full textRaybould, Michael, and n/a. "Attitudes and Information Effects in Contingent Valuation of Natural Resources." Griffith University. Australian School of Environmental Studies, 2006. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20061009.150949.
Full textSaint, John Alyssa L. "Characteristics of a Chronically, Rapidly Eroding Beach: Long Key, Pinellas County, Florida." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000562.
Full textRaybould, Michael. "Attitudes and Information Effects in Contingent Valuation of Natural Resources." Thesis, Griffith University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367928.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Australian School of Environmental Studies
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Leonard, Ozan Corey R. "Evaluating the Effects of Beach Nourishment on Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta) Nesting In Pinellas County, Florida." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3204.
Full textBrutsché, Katherine Emily. "Evolution and Equilibration of Artificial Morphologic Perturbations in the Form of Nearshore Berm Nourishments Along the Florida Gulf Coast." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5192.
Full textDavis, Denise Marie. "Distinguishing Processes that Induce Temporal Beach Profile Changes Using Principal Component Analysis: A Case Study at Long Key, West-central Florida." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4881.
Full textWildman, John C. "Laboratory Evaluation of Recycled Crushed Glass Cullet for Use as an Aggregate in Beach Nourishment and Marsh Creation Projects in Southeastern Louisiana." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2565.
Full textAndrade, Carla Danielle Pereira de. "Áreas potenciais à exploração de granulados marinhos siliciclásticos para a recuperação artificial de praias na plataforma continental interna adjacente ao Porto do Recife-PE." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/72105.
Full textThere are few studies that map the Internal Continental Platform referring to localization, qualification and quantification of reserves of litoclastic marine material. The Brazilian state Pernambuco suffers from erosions along the whole coast and particularly in areas close to the cities of Recife and Olinda. This study offers new knowledge about the sedimentology of the internal continental platform adjacent to the harbor of Recife and the Beach Milagres in Olinda. Furthermore, it points out measures that can be used to recover regional beaches. Along 6 profiles with a distance of 1km and perpendicular to the coast line at the internal platform of the harbor of Recife, 36 samples were collected and analyzed. Thus, areas with concentrations of litoclastic marine aggregates with the necessary characteristics for the recovery of the beaches were identified. A laboratory was used for granulometry and a compositional study of all samples. The granulometric results show mainly badly selected sediments. There are different sizes from small pebbles (8 mm) to mud (< than 0,062 mm), predominantly coarse sand fraction. The compositional analysis reveals hegemony of marine carbonates. Thus the obtained data indicates a reduction of local terrigenous sedimentary supply. This is probably due to the fact that the selected area is undergoing an initial transgressive process. Also in accordance with the obtained results of this study, the internal continental platform adjacent to the harbor of Recife and the Beach Milagres in Olinda, Pernambuco, is mainly covered by badly selected biogenic sand which has its origin in the death and fragmentation of components of the coral reef of the internal continental platform. As a result the area is not indicated to mineral exploration for the artificial recovery of the beaches in the state of Pernambuco.
Roberts, Tiffany. "Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on the Morphodynamics of Sandy and Mixed Sand and Gravel Beaches." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4216.
Full textCaderas, Jenna. "Beach Nourishment: Effects on the Hatching & Emergence Success Rates of Leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea), Loggerhead (Caretta caretta), and Green (Chelonia mydas) Sea Turtles." NSUWorks, 2016. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/417.
Full textRanson, Matthew. "Essays on the Economics of Climate Change." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10377.
Full textBrutsche, Katherine. "First Year Sedimentological Characteristics and Morphological Evolution of an Artificial Berm at Fort Myers Beach, Florida." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3019.
Full textBrock, Kelly. "EFFECTS OF A SHORE PROTECTION PROJECT ON LOGGERHEAD AND GREEN TURTLE NESTING ACTIVITY AND REPRODUCTION IN BREVARD COUNTY, FLORID." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2946.
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Department of Biology
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Biology
Oliveira, Julio Fernandes de. "Identificação de áreas de sedimentos compatíveis na Plataforma Continental interna para recuperação de praias entre as cidades de Niterói e Macaé– RJ." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/56334.
Full textThe urbanized coastline of east and south-east littoral of the state of Rio de Janeiro suffers constantly with the destruction of houses, walls and streets in extreme oceanographic events. These constructions, in most cases are located very close to the limit with the beach, inside of the range of no building suggest by Projeto Orla – Ministry of Environment. This region has strong population growth with major economic activities associated with oil exploration in the city of Macae and Rio das Ostras, industry of tourism in Lakes Region and the urban center of Niteroi already consolidated. The identification of sand deposits with similar granulometric characteristics to the native material to nourishment project as a mitigation option, represented an alternative to maintain the protective function of the beach and use for recreation. The objective of this study is analyze the compatibility of surface sediments of the inner continental shelf and sands of urban beaches, located between the cities of Niteroi and Macae – RJ, through of comparison the statistical parameters of size distribution of the sands of these two environments. For the characterization of sedimentary beaches were sampled from the beach face of 16 beaches located in the major urban centers of this segment of the coastline of Rio de Janeiro’s state. The granulometric data of surface sediments of the inner continental shelf between Niteroi an Macae are secondary from preterits oceanographic campaigns. These datas were filtered and digitized with a total of approximately 1200 collection points ranging from east bar of Guanabara Bay to the Restinga de Jurubatiba. Eleven areas granulometrically compatible with the different beaches were identified near the -20 meters isobaths near the coast of Niteroi and Marica, Cabo Frio and Buzios and between Rio das Ostras and Macae, representing a potential borrow areas for use in nourishment projects in this region.
Hays, Allison Whitney. "Determining the impacts of beach restoration on loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and green turtle (Chelonia mydas) nesting patterns and reproductive success along Florida's Atlantic coast." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5295.
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Masters
Biology
Sciences
Biology
Than, Van Van. "Modélisation d'érosion côtière : application à la partie Ouest du tombolo de Giens." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AIXM4736/document.
Full textThe objective of this thesis is the determination of the causes of sea erosion phenomenon, and the production of policy proposals for the protection of the beach. The study begins with the collection and analysis of all available data, to find evolution rules of tombolo of Giens. Which aims to explain how the hydrodynamic processes and sediment transport occur. Then MIKE modeling software was applied to confirm the hypothesis and get a better understanding of the dynamics at work in the Western tombolo. Then, we coupled factors simultaneously: waves, coastal currents and sediment transport for different regimes of wave and wind in MIKE 21. Finally, the possibility of stabilizing the Western tombolo is discussed to give suggestions on the choice of solutions
Jordan, Lance K. B. "Multi-Experimental Examination of Haemulon Species (Haemulidae) Early-Life Ecology on Southeast Mainland Florida Coral Reefs." NSUWorks, 2010. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/83.
Full textChung, Ying-Feng, and 鍾英鳳. "The Dispersion of Sand Concentration in Beach Nourishment." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22304590669114807306.
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水利及海洋工程學系專班
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This study is intended to probe the behaviour of sand dispersion in beach nourishment; the results may be useful for design and construction of marine works. A composite model of tidal current and concentration dispersion is employed to simulate beach nourishment with various placing locations, quantities, times and particle diameters of sand. To point placing case, the study outlines that the sand concentratuon is dispersed forward to offshore becoming stable after 24 hours of continue dumping, but varied with the distance and the difference of ebb or flood current. Nevertheless, the dispersion continues to growth along the long shore direction. If the sand placing quantity was designed to be a constant value, the instant placing disperses to far area than continuous placing. While the sand is dumped in the near-shore area between breakwaters of An-ping Fishing Port and An-ping Commercial Port, the sand concentration could affect wider areas when the placing location gets farther away from the coastal line. Secondly, the closer to the shore the placing location is, the faster the dispersion occurs after sand placing is stopped, and the high sand concentration is bonded within these two breakwaters and will not pass through the southern breakwater line of An-ping Commercial Port even in flood. However, if sand is placed near the outside of southern breakwater of An-ping Commercial Port, wider areas of dispersion would appear and sand concentration would disperse offshore because of the sheltering of the breakwater. Moreover, when the sand placing location gets farther away from the southern breakwater, sand concentration disperses more widely along the long shore direction, but the variation in the cross direction approaches to a constant value. Finally, the particle size also affects dispersion clearly. The finer the sand particle is, the wider the dispersion area is; and high concentration influences longer because the sedimentation of fine sand particles takes a longer time. In this study the medium diameter is taken as 0.25 mm, and the concentration at the center of sand placing area is reduced to 1,000PPM after 4 days of sand placed. It is concluded that the successful design of beach nourishment project depends on the placing location, the coastal facilities such as groins, detached breakwaters and submerged breakwaters as well as sea climate for the shortage of sediments resources.
Tsao-Jen-Chen and 陳昭仁. "A study of Nourishment Methods in Yan Liao Beach." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74325325958052162942.
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河海工程學系
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Yan-Liao beach in Northeast Coast National Scenic Area is a hot spot. In recent years, beach erosion and beach restoration issues, by the attention of many visitors. The goals of this study is to assess the effects of Yan-Liao beach nourishment after storm damage of Typhoon KROSA(2007). The selection of shore protection method was based on the consideration of effective sand dune protection, beach recreation function and water quality protection. To achieve the effective disaster prevention function, associated seaward dune nourishment and nourishment of subaerial beach were performed at Yen-Liao beach. According to the monitoring of beach nourishment project, the beach profile and beach width is steadily being restored. It is demonstrated that this kind of beach nourishment has a valuable reference for shore protection.
Sheng-HanWang and 王聖涵. "Application of Improvement of the Tseng-Wen River Sand Partical Size in Beach Nourishment." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68845598486326988800.
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土木工程學系碩博士班
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The Tseng-Wen River is the highest utilization water system of water resources in Taiwan. With plenty of earth volume, the Tseng-Wen River has the best opportunity to achieve improved sand particle size to enhance coastal sediment transport. This study consists of laboratory and field tests in two stages: The laboratory test contains the basic physical properties test and the tumbling granulation test. The tumbling granulation test is divided into two method, and for the improvement of river sand operate the slake durability test, sieve analysis test and unit weight test. In situ test part The results of this study are as follows: tumbling granulation tests can achieve the effect of particle size increases, the oyster-shell particle size increased more significantly, but the instrument is still not mass-produced particles, as well as the high cost of production materials; The particles’ durability above medium high. In the initial period after completion of the Stone Weir, elevation in the front of the test area is rising; and loss of coastal sands are less, show that the Stone Weir slows down coastal erosion. But by waves, tides and other factors, and the lack of material strength, the Stone Weir is easily dragged by waves and led to deformation and loss.
Silva, Mariana Antunes Regadas Brandão da. "Ultra-high resolution seismostratigraphic study of a beach nourishment loan area: Barra-Mira (Northwest Portugal)." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/48424.
Full textNowadays we witness numerous problems associated with climate change, one of which is the intensification of coastal erosion. This is a process which is widely known in the Portuguese coast, being responsible for sediment remobilization specially in the low and sandy littoral. Not only does this contribute to the destruction of ecosystems and impacts liveability of the population in these areas but it also affects the tourism which is so important for the growth of a countries’ economy. To reduce the harmful impacts of coastal erosion, characterization of loan areas assumes a fundamental role for subsequent beach artificial nourishment – the most frequent implemented measure in other European countries to mitigate these effects. These operations use natural resources extracted from a feeder (by dredging) that are deposited on the troublesome coastal segments identified – it ensures protection and adaptation of coastal environments in a more natural way. For a loan area to become a possible source of sediment for beach artificial nourishment it must be in relatively close proximity and present specific characteristics, such as, the grain size (granulometry), mineralogic composition, fine and coarse percentages, carbonate percentage and a reduced contamination degree. Aside from knowing these characteristics locally it is necessary to overview how the different seismostratigraphic units are distributed, their relationship and geometry, quantification of unit’s volumes and for that seismic data is crucial. Once that characterization is complete it is important to make an economic viability study (if they are viable to be extracted and used to mitigate the erosional effects. With this in mind the CHIMERA project was delineated and financed by the Programa Operacional Sustentabilidade e Eficiência no Uso de Recursos (POSEUR-09-2016-48). This was applied to areas that had previously been identified as highly susceptible to coastal erosion: Costa da Caparica (CC), Espinho-Torreira (ET), Barra-Mira (BM) and Figueira da Foz-Leirosa (FFL). This thesis is based on the work developed during the Chimera project, starting with the acquisition of bathymetric, magnetic and single and multichannel seismic data until their interpretation, followed by the processing and interpretation of all the data. It is important to understand if this multidisciplinary methodology allow for a recount of geological history and if they complement each other for results and conclusions. The main motivation was to understand the coastal erosions impacts and how to proceed to mitigate them. In order to present a concrete study, I opted to focus in only one of the study areas – Barra-Mira (BM) as it showed a richer geological story. This work comprises the main steps of acquisition, processing, and interpretation of ultra-high resolution seismic data (UHRS) in more detail. This corroborated with other geophysical techniques (hydrographic and sedimentological data) led to: (a) definition and mapping of seven seismostratigraphic units; (b) volumetric quantification for each sedimentary class; (c) determination of usable sediment (only fraction described as medium to coarse sand) percentage. The total sediment thickness above the rocky substrate can reach to 104.26x106m3 (or 0.1 km3 ) but if we account the fact that for the sediment to be viable for beach nourishment it has to have a carbonate content of < 30%...
Santos, Catarina Sofia Jóia de Oliveira dos. "Shoreline response to a sandy nourishment in a wave-dominated coast using video monitoring." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/101003.
Full textSlott, Jordan Matthew. "Numerical Modeling of Coastline Evolution in an Era of Global Change." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/661.
Full textScientists expect temperatures on Earth to get substantially warmer over the course of the 21st century, causing storm systems to intensify and sea-level rise to accelerate--these changes will likely have dramatic impacts on how the coastlines of tomorrow will evolve. Humans are also playing an increasingly important role in shaping Earth's coastal systems. Coastal scientists have only a general understanding of how these three factors--humans, storms, and sea-level rise--will alter the evolution of coastlines over the coming century, however. I conduct numerical modeling experiments to shed light on the relative importance of these factors on the evolution of coastline geomorphology.
In a series of experiments using a numerical model of large-scale (1 to 100's km) and long-term (years to centuries) coastline evolution that results from gradients in alongshore sediment transport, I explore how the patterns and rates of shoreline erosion and accretion are affected by shifts in 'wave climate' (the mix of influences on alongshore sediment transport of waves approaching from different directions) induced by intensified storm systems and the direct manipulation of the shoreline system by humans through beach nourishment (periodically placing sand on an eroding beach). I use a cuspate-cape coastline, similar to the Outer Banks, North and South Carolina, USA, as an important case study in my experiments. I observe that moderate shifts in the wave climate can alter the patterns of shoreline erosion and accretion, potentially increasing migration rates by several times that which we see today, and nearly an order-of-magnitude larger than sea-level rise-related erosion alone. I also find that under possible wave climate futures, beach nourishment may also induce shoreline change on the same order of magnitude as does sea-level rise.
The decision humans make whether or not to nourish their beach often depends upon a favorable economic outcome in the endeavor. In further experiments, I couple a cost-benefit economic model of human decision making to the numerical model of coastline evolution and test a hypothetical scenario where two communities (one 'rich' and one 'poor') nourish their beaches in tandem, under different sets of economic and wave climate parameters. I observe that two adjacent communities can benefit substantially from each other's nourishment activity, and these effects persist even if the two communities are separated by several tens of kilometers.
In a separate effort, I employ techniques from dynamic capital theory coupled to a physically-realistic model of coastline evolution to find the optimum time a community should wait between beach nourishment episodes ('rotation length') to maximize the utility to beach-front property owners. In a series of experiments, I explore the sensitivity of the rotation length to economic parameters, including the discount rate, the fixed and variable costs of beach nourishment, and the benefits from beach nourishment, and physical parameters including the background erosion rate and the exponential rate at which both the cross-shore profile and the plan-view coastline shape re-adjusts following a beach nourishment episode ('decay rate' of nourishment sand). Some results I obtained were expected: if property values, the hedonic value of beach width, the baseline retreat rate, the fixed cost of beach nourishment, and the discount rate increase, then the rotation length of nourishment decreases. Some results I obtained, however, were unexpected: the rotation length of nourishment can either increase or decrease when the decay rate of nourishment sand varies versus the discount rate and when the variable costs of beach nourishment increase.
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Marinho, Bárbara Carina Gonçalves. "Artificial nourishments as a coastal defense solution: monitoring and modelling approaches." Doctoral thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/24742.
Full textAtualmente verifica-se um crescente interesse internacional por soluções de engenharia ambientalmente sustentáveis, capazes de combater a erosão, aumentar a largura da praia e manter a segurança das zonas costeiras. Ao longo das últimas décadas, tem-se assistido a uma mudança de paradigma no que toca à política de proteção da costa, que tem cada vez mais privilegiado o recurso às alimentações artificiais em detrimento das tradicionais estruturas de defesa costeira pesada. Esta dissertação começa com uma revisão da literatura sobre a passada vs presente evolução do litoral português, dando ênfase a aspetos relevantes da gestão costeira (estruturação e processo de tomada de decisões politicas), bem como as principais estratégias de proteção que têm sido discutidas no contexto das futuras propostas de adaptação para as zonas costeiras, servindo para destacar os principais desafios e problemas de algumas regiões do litoral português. Como tentativa de disseminação do conhecimento científico acumulado sobre o comportamento das alimentações artificiais, este estudo foi direcionado para análise de um conjunto de dados de campo recolhidos no âmbito de um programa de monitorização estabelecido para cumprir com a legislação portuguesa e a política nacional de gestão para controlo dos impactos ambientais associados ao uso combinado de operações de dragagem e deposição na vizinhança de portos marítimos. Considerando o melhoramento da capacidade de modelação numérica, um objetivo igualmente importante para se garantir uma boa previsibilidade da evolução de praias alimentadas, nesta dissertação, um foco especial é também dado ao estudo da evolução do perfil transversal de praia, uma vez que a resposta das alimentações estão intrinsecamente relacionadas com a dinâmica sedimentar natural. Foi apresentado e aplicado um modelo numérico recente e inovador, que segue uma descrição simplificada da evolução do perfil transversal de praia (incluindo a erosão/recuperação da duna, galgamento e troca de material entre a porção emersa/submersa) ao caso de estudo da costa de Aveiro e para uma análise de sensibilidades no contexto de múltiplos cenários hipotéticos de alimentações artificiais. Este modelo foi posteriormente explorado via um dos módulos que o integra – a sub-rotina da troca de material entre a berma e a porção submersa – conduzindo a uma versão melhorada do modelo. Atenção foi dada à modelação numérica do comportamento submerso do perfil, a fim de realisticamente descrever os efeitos do transporte dos sedimentos das barras em direção à praia e vice-versa, envolvendo evolução de barras naturais e artificiais (de alimentação). Os desenvolvimentos teóricos foram testados e validados através de dados de campo disponíveis para três casos de estudo nos EUA. No geral, resultados desta aplicação mostraram-se prometedores, demonstrando o potencial de modelos simples e robustos para reproduzir as principais tendências no transporte transversal de sedimentos a longo-prazo. Esta tese constitui um contributo no sentido do aumento do conhecimento sobre as alimentações artificiais de praia, servindo como suporte aos órgãos gestores do litoral na tomada de decisão.
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