Sentences with phrase «for coastal engineers»

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.

Not exact matches

The state will enhance programs to encourage nature - based shorelines, improved engineering criteria for repairing coastal structures, coastal vulnerability assessments and other outreach.

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.

In a study, published in Coastal Engineering, the academics say deriving sufficient knowledge and understanding to forecast erosion and accretion with a level of confidence is arguably the «holy grail» for coastal scientists and engineers.

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

«Due to global warming, oil exploration in the Arctic has become feasible along with the shipment of oil through the Northwest Passage, the water body between Canada and the Arctic that used to be frozen throughout the year, but has now become open for navigation in the summer,» noted Boufadel, a professor of civil and environmental engineering who specializes in the impact of oil spills on coastal regions and, more generally, on oil behavior in diverse environments.

A group of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) researchers and engineers have developed and tested an innovative new system for sampling small planktonic larvae in coastal ocean waters and understanding their distribution.

In August 2005 the Shanghai Industrial Investment Corporation hired the engineering firm Arup to design an «eco-demonstrator» satellite city for the booming coastal municipality.

For the residents of Towyn, a town on the North Wales coast, the engineers arrived too late to repair their sea wall, which was built 100 years ago to protect the coastal railway line.

Other types of soft engineering for coastal defence include efforts to regenerate beaches.

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.

It was a huge engineering feat with Blood, sweat and anguish, resulting in a faster access for vehicles via a coastal route from Barwon Heads to Warrnambool.

One modest example is the lack of substantial effort to retrofit or replace hundreds of schools in the state of Oregon that engineers have identified as likely or nearly certain to collapse when the next inevitable great earthquake is triggered along the region's Cascadia fault (there are struggles to prepare coastal communities for the inevitable tsunami, as well).

«The ecosystem services have actually been valued at $ 3 billion — meaning that the protection that these reefs give against tsunami waves, against coastal erosion is a dollar figure that we can never engineer anything as effective as our reefs, and in order for them to work, they have to be healthy,» said Richmond.

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.

As someone who worked in coastal engineering for a considerable portion of a long and varied career — and if anyone wants some advice on coastal property — I don't come cheap.

In a written statement, Demirkan, president of the local branch of the Turkish Union of Chambers of Architects and Engineers, «said that many people had opposed the coastal road as inappropriate for Giresun's landscape and as a construction that would separate the city from the sea.»