Sentences with phrase «studying coastal erosion»

A large polar bear, stuck ashore, approached biologists studying coastal erosion related to sea - ice retreats.

He is also interested in studying coastal erosion and sea - level fluctuations.

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Southold Town's Conservation Advisory Council is urging the Town Board to conduct a coastline study in the hopes of developing a plan for best practices in dealing with coastal erosion, particularly along the Long Island Sound.

«The sea keeps on rising, and the people need to protect themselves,» Ittu told researchers who studied adaptation in response to coastal erosion in Micronesia for the Loss and Damage initiative at the U.N. University in Bonn, Germany.

Sitting at the edge of the Patagonian Shelf, in an area rich in marine resources, the Falklands are a unique natural laboratory in which to study sustainable fisheries, global climate change, coastal erosion, and plant and animal evolution.

Any research that relies on measuring changes in Earth's surface, including studies of volcanoes and coastal erosion, would benefit from elevation data produced by the SETSM software, Howat said.

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.

For the study «Doubling of coastal erosion under rising sea level by mid-century in Hawaiʻi,» published this week in Natural Hazards, the research team developed a simple model to assess future erosion hazards under higher sea levels — taking into account historical changes of Hawaiʻi shorelines and the projected acceleration of sea level rise reported from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The study focuses on how these approaches help coastal communities reduce their risk of flooding and erosion, as well as additional benefits, and the tradeoffs when decision makers choose one type over another.

«As an archaeologist who studies Arctic and Subarctic coastal peoples, erosion associated with intense storm activity, loss of permafrost, rising sea levels, and increasing human activity is devastating to comprehend; however, this study not only documents those processes, but provides a means to examine their highly variable impacts that, hopefully, can lead to constructive ways to prioritize research and mitigate destructive processes in this extremely important region.»

Slows Coastal Erosion Following the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, a study led by Danish ecologist Finn Danielsen reported that coastal areas flush with mangrove trees were markedly less damaged than those without.

No one is more concerned than the Japanese, who are surrounded by seas; about 73 % of Japan is forested, mountainous, and unsuitable for agricultural, industrial, or residential use, as a result, the habitable zones are mainly located in or near coastal areas, so much so that, there are growing concerns in Japan of the impact of climate change on their coastal surroundings, prompting the Japanese government to set up an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to undertake a study on climate change, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenarios.

Scientists are exploring undersea volcanoes, monitoring coastal erosion along hard - to - reach shorelines, and studying the movement of sea ice — all in real time.

There are only a couple of studies documenting long - term trends in coastal erosion rates in this chunk of Arctic.

According to a study published earlier this week in Nature Geoscience, coastal erosion and flooding could be much worse along the Pacific than previously thought, particularly when El Niño and La Niña are taken into consideration.

And because Pacifica has long been known as a hot spot of coastal erosion, it has been studied for over 100 years.

The study also estimates that resultant emissions decreases would reduce 2050 U.S. climate change costs — such as coastal erosion and extreme weather damage — by about $ 3.2 billion per year.

«The study shows that you don't need higher sea levels for there to be coastal erosion, just the loss of healthy coral reefs,» said Harris, of UQ's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences.