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Potential long-term disturbance associated with beach nourishment - insights and observations from Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, Outer Banks, North Carolina [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 The longer-term ecosystem impacts associated with a beach nourishment project conducted in 2014 were studied on an ocean beach on the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge on North Carolina's Outer Banks.
Paul Paris, Anya Leach, D. Reide Corbett
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Drone-Based Monitoring to Remotely Assess a Beach Nourishment Program on Lord Howe Island
Drones, 2023 Beach nourishment is a soft engineering technique that is used to combat coastal erosion. To assess the efficacy of a beach nourishment program on the northwest coast of Lord Howe Island, remotely coordinated drone-based monitoring was undertaken at ...
Thomas Fellowes, Brendan P. Kelaher
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Evolution of Sediment Parameters after a Beach Nourishment
Land, 2021 A methodology for monitoring the behaviour and size of sand after a beach nourishment process is presented herein. Four sampling campaigns (before and just after the nourishment, after six months and one year later) were performed on four beaches of the ...
Juan Jose Muñoz-Perez +2 more
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Beach Response to a Shoreface Nourishment (Aveiro, Portugal)
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021 In Aveiro (NW coast of Portugal), a coastal monitoring programme was carried out in sequence of a shoreface nourishment intervention (over than 2 M m3) performed in 2020. In this programme, almost one year of biweekly subaerial topographies and quarterly
Celso Pinto +2 more
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Morphodynamic Evolution of Post-Nourishment Beach Scarps in Low-Energy and Micro-Tidal Environment
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021 Beach scarps are commonly associated with nourishment. Large and persistent beach scarps not only affect the performance of beach nourishment, but also are safety hazards to tourists.
Gen Liu +7 more
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021 Beach nourishment represents a type of coastal defense intervention, keeping the beach as a natural coastal defense system. Altering the cross-shore profile geometry, due to the introduction of new sediments, induces a non-equilibrium situation regarding
André Guimarães +3 more
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Ecosphere, 2021 Beach nourishment is a common coastal management practice used to protect and maintain infrastructure, tourist revenue, and sandy beach habitats. Coastal erosion and increased development along the coast of North Carolina, USA, have resulted in increased
Kaitlynn M. Shamblott +2 more
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2020 Fringing reefs have significant impacts on beach dynamics, yet there is little research on how they should be considered in beach nourishment design, monitoring, and conservation works.
Juan J. Muñoz-Perez +2 more
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Evaluation of beach nourishment works on Miyazaki coast in Japan [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2019 Miyazaki Coast have been suffering from severe erosion problem due to the shortage of sediment supply from rivers and the change of waves and nearshore currents by the construction of an offshore breakwater at Miyazaki Port.
Murakami Keisuke, Setia Wardani Khusnul
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Morphological Analysis of a Nearshore Nourishment along the Atlantic Coast of New Jersey, USA
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 Nearshore nourishment is a common coastal flood risk management technique that can be constructed beneficially by using dredged sediment from navigation channels.
Sean P. McGill +7 more
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