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Creator:: Converse, Jordan D.
Abstract:: With rising sea levels and more frequent exposure to extreme storms, coastlines worldwide are vulnerable to increased erosion and loss of natural marsh lands. In an effort to lessen these impacts, there is a growing practice of adapting hard or “gray” coastline protection techniques to more nature-based features that promote...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Meagan. E. Wengrove With rising sea levels and more frequent exposure to extreme storms

Creator:: Dickey, John
Abstract:: Wind flow on vegetated coastal foredunes adapts to the local canopy drag, resulting in spatial gradients in bed shear stresses which contribute to the formation of localized bedforms (e.g., nebkha, shadow dunes). Numerous morphological properties of the plants, including canopy height and density, affect the wind flow dynamics and therefore...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: Meagan Wengrove Wind flow on vegetated coastal foredunes adapts to the local canopy drag

Creator:: Bond, Hailey G.
Abstract:: The formation of beach scarps is a challenging morphodynamic phenomenon that the coastal community has yet to capture in coastal change models. Understanding scarp formation is crucial to accurately predicting coastal erosion and vulnerability during extreme events, as models without parameters for scarp formation and development severely underpredict total erosion...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Meagan E. Wengrove The formation of beach scarps is a challenging morphodynamic

Creator:: Holzenthal, Elizabeth R.
Abstract:: Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) species, such as seagrasses, are highly valued in estuaries because of the many economic, ecological, and cultural services that they provide, including shelter for fisheries, minimizing water turbidity, and improving am-bient water quality. SAV can also alter its physical environment by attenuating wave and current velocities,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: -Attenuating Properties of SAV Habitats Across Spatial Scales Abstract approved: David F. Hill Meagan E

Creator:: Biel, Reuben G.
Abstract:: Biological invasions and climate change represent two preeminent threats to ecological communities and biodiversity, altering the distribution and abundance of species, disrupting existing species interactions and forming unprecedented ones, and creating novel ecological communities. Many of the most successful invasive species are also ecosystem engineers, species that physically modify the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Appendix B. Chapter 3 supplemental figures and tables .................................... 206 Appendix C

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