Sentences with phrase «coastal engineer»

The talk now among coastal engineers is of setting back sea walls in a «managed retreat», and of giving the coast back to nature.

There hasn't been a Cascadia earthquake since 1700, and many researchers say there is a one - in - three chance a magnitude 9.0 temblor and tsunami will strike in the next 50 years «It's coming sooner or later,» says Harry Yeh, a professor of coastal engineering at Oregon State University (O.S.U.) and tsunami expert who is helping Cannon Beach community leaders with the project.

In addition to the Lake Ontario Rapid Response Team, expert coastal engineers are being deployed to local governments and residents in harm's way.»

As part of the Lake Ontario Rapid Response Team, DEC is deploying a team of experienced coastal engineers to Lake Ontario to work with property owners to address erosion, conduct site visits, meet with owners, and offer technical guidance.

These «nourishment» projects, as they are called, usually average out to about $ 8 to $ 10 per cubic yard of sand, says Lesley Ewing, a senior coastal engineer with the California Coastal Commission.

I've moved into sort of a traditional coastal engineering type of field, very different from my own, in order to get the information I need to do my job in structural engineering and look at the building's response to tsunamis.

The telling hot spot recently observed in the southeast was discovered when the Indian River Lagoon on Florida's Atlantic coast, known for its algae blooms and blankets of dead fish, became much saltier after 2011, and study lead author Arnoldo Valle - Levinson, professor of civil and coastal engineering sciences in UF's College of Engineering, began to investigate the situation.

Likewise, coastal ecosystems such as mangroves and tidal marshes are proving to be a more cost - effective and ecologically sound alternative to buffering storms than conventional coastal engineering solutions.

And the conundrum for coastal engineers is that sediment can only come in large quantities from the processes of erosion — especially from fast - eroding cliff faces.

Tidal amplification is common in estuaries and river deltas around the world, agrees coastal engineer Marcel Stive of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Robert Nicholls, who studies coastal engineering at the University of Southampton, UK, and who co-authored the chapter on coastal management for the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change report, is likewise surprised by the link.

A team of nearly 50 scientists led by coastal engineering expert Robert Nicholls from Southampton University travelled to the Tiger camp in the Indian Sunderbans on Monday to develop a climate model that can be adapted to secure water supply, health and food security for millions residing along this belt.

Arnoldo Valle - Levinson, a civil and coastal engineer at the University of Florida, checked local tide gauges, to see that seas in the region were rising 10 times faster than the long - term rate measured off the coast.

The discovery was made by Hermann Fritz, a coastal engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Savannah, who spent six days in Haiti in early February documenting stories from fishermen and aid workers.

PLANS for a deep - water port at the Palestinian city of Gaza are causing concern among environmentalists and coastal engineers.

Now, «the science is already much, much further ahead than what FEMA is working with,» says Thomas Wahl, a coastal engineer and oceanographer at the University of Central Florida.

«It's a very nice facility,» says Javier López Lara, a coastal engineer at the Environmental Hydraulics Institute «IH Cantabria» in Santander, Spain.

All coastal engineering communities support intense metabolic processes, including high primary production, respiration and calcification rates, thereby affecting CO2, CO3 −, and alkalinity concentrations and surface water pH. However, many metabolically intense coastal habitats are experiencing global declines in their abundance at rates in excess of 1 % per year (Duarte et al. 2008; Ermgassen et al. 2013).