Driving through almost any coastal town, you'll notice staples of being at the beach: ice-cream stands, seafood shacks, bridges leading to the shore. But what if they all washed away? Barrier islands, ...

Stronger hurricanes are growing more frequent and causing more damage to US coastal cities. As a coastal engineer, Jens Figlus works to protect coastlines from these threats. He lives in Texas, which ...

With the Atlantic hurricane season well under way and Tropical Storm Harvey causing devastation in Texas, a new scientific study reports that coastal wetlands significantly reduce annual flood losses ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

What are the most updated technical advances in the field of design and construction of of coastal structures and sea defenses? Professor Young C Kim has published his latest book, Design of Coastal ...

Faculty members from the University of Miami’s College of Engineering and Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science were recently awarded a pair of grants from the National Institute of ...

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email In 1992, Joseph Vietri, then a coastal engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, was ...

Coastal engineers have been to assess damage caused by a landslide. A large section of cliff collapsed on to Crimdon beach in County Durham last week, following weeks of rain. Louise Mann, who owns a ...

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