Waves, tide, and wind dominate coastal processes and landforms. Rivers deliver sediment to the coast, where it can be reworked to form deltas, beaches, dunes, and barrier islands. The coastal zone is ...

As stronger storms, rising costs and growing coastal populations reshape the nation’s understanding of risk, FIU is leading the most ambitious leap forward in resilience science in a generation.

A newly funded program to accelerate the science behind coastal bluff failures was signed into law this week. The bill, AB 66, outlines enhanced coastal monitoring to better understand the timing of ...

Sea-level rise, a consequence of climate change, is already affecting coastlines around the world. Because more than a third of the global population lives within 100 kilometers (62 miles) of an ocean ...

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Students at North Point High School are excited about making waves in the classroom as they put their engineering design skills to work, thanks to an innovative device called a wave flume that has ...

Researchers have created a coastal evolution model to analyze how coastal management activities on barrier islands, meant to adapt to sea-level rise, can disrupt natural processes that are keeping the ...

The Integrated Coastal Modeling project, led by Kraucunas, focuses on developing and integrating computational models that can simulate coastal processes. Imagine the different natural coastlines—long ...

One of the greatest challenges facing coastal communities during extreme storms is to predict where, and when, coastal flooding might occur. To overcome that, scientists from the University of ...

Cape Cod's contours have never stood still and never will. Here’s why erosion matters, what’s at stake, and the hard ...