Coastal
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The Tampa Bay Times has an interesting story this week about how rising sea levels are threatening many historic sites along the Florida coast, including many historic forts, Native American sites, and other heritage sites. This is also true of other Southeastern states, where many historic sites are located near the coasts because of their…
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Lee Shearer of the Athens Banner-Herald has an interesting story about a new island that was created along the Georgia coast by storm surge associated with Hurricane Irma last September. According to the story, the new island formed when the storm shifted the channel of Blackbeard Creek and blew out part of a narrow finger…
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The coastlines and wetlands of Louisiana are disappearing at an alarming rate due to the combination of subsidence of land, erosion and rising sea levels. According to a recent article in the American Association of Geographers newsletter, erosion alone is causing losses of a football field-sized area every hour. This coastline once accounted for 40%…
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One under-reported impact from Hurricane Irma was addressed by CGTN.com this week here. Local fishermen report that Irma hit just a month into the lobster harvesting season and lost up to 43% of their traps, which will have to be replaced. In addition, silt from streams flowing into the ocean may have affected the lobsters. …
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Zillow.com posted an interesting story this week which shows the potential loss of properties if sea level rises an average of 6 feet by 2100. Of course we don’t know for sure that it will rise six feet, and certainly the rise in sea level won’t be uniform across the coasts because of local contributing…
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Puerto Rico experienced the destruction of not one but two tropical storms so far this season. First, Tropical Storm Irma gave a glancing blow to the territory as it traveled north of the island, providing winds and flooding rain to the area. Then came the direct and far more devastating blow from Hurricane Maria, which…
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If you live along the coast, you will be interested in this assessment of storm surge conditions around the Southeast from Hurricane Irma. Because the storm was so large, storm surge occurred at a much wider scale than is usual for hurricanes. You can read more about it at https://hurricanehalssb.blogspot.com/2017/09/four-surges-in-one-wrap-up-on-irmas.html.