Journal of Coastal Research articles from September 2010

Journal of Coastal Research archives from September 2010

Cover photograph: Geographic Harbor, Katmai National Park, Alaska, USA: a mother brown bear (Ursus arctos) and her cub foraging.(COVER PHOTOGRAPH)(Brief article)
September 1, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A mother brown bear (Ursus arctos) and her young cub comb the shoreline of Geographic Harbor in Katmai National State Park during low tide. Brown bears rule the nearly 400 miles of rugged coastline of this national park...

Tracking oil slicks and predicting their trajectories using remote sensors and models: case studies of the sea princess and deepwater horizon oil spills.
September 1, 2010... ABSTRACT Oil spills can harm marine life in the oceans, estuaries, and wetlands. To limit the damage by a spill and facilitate cleanup efforts, emergency managers need information on spill location, size and extent, direction and speed of oil...

Sand colour rating and chromatic compatibility of borrow sediments.(Report)
September 1, 2010... ABSTRACT Artificial beach nourishment can significantly modify original beach colour, altering an important component of the coastal landscape; this can produce deleterious environmental effects and potentially induce controversies among...

Salt marsh geomorphological analyses via integration of multitemporal multispectral remote sensing with LIDAR and GIS.(Report)
September 1, 2010... ABSTRACT Ecogeomorphological modeling in salt marshes faces distinct challenges due to tidal oscillation and variability, fieldwork logistics, and the inherent dynamic nature of these environments. Recently developed technologies and methods...

Analyzing estuarine shoreline change: a case study of Cedar Island, North Carolina.(Case study)
September 1, 2010... ABSTRACT Continued climate change, sea-level rise, and coastal development have lead to concern about shoreline dynamics beyond oceanfront areas, encompassing more sheltered coastal water bodies such as estuaries. Because estuaries are...

Capturing coastal geomorphological change within regional integrated assessment: an outcome-driven fuzzy logic approach.(Report)
September 1, 2010... ABSTRACT Climate change will have pervasive effects on the world's coasts, but at broad scales these changes have typically proven difficult to analyse in a systematic manner. This paper explores an outcome-driven deductive methodology for...

An investigation into the effect of dredging on tidal asymmetry at the River Murray mouth.(Report)
September 1, 2010... ABSTRACT The coastal lagoon adjacent to the River Murray mouth has been filling with sediment brought in from the ocean by tidal currents for at least the last 170 years. Recently, reduced river flows have led to an increase in the rate of...

Piecewise polynomial expression of beach profiles.(Report)
September 1, 2010... ABSTRACT This paper advances a piecewise polynomial-based concept of beach profile geometric representation, the Piecewise Weighted Polynomial Interpolation Function (PWPIF) expression. Conventional monotonic power function or exponential...

Application of factor analysis in geochemical speciation of heavy metals in the sediments of a lake system--Chilika (India): a case study.(Report)
September 1, 2010... ABSTRACT The geochemical association of some trace metals (Fe, Mn, Ni, Cu, Cr, and Pb) were sequentially extracted from bulk sediments of the Chilika lagoon, India. The low elemental concentration, except Pb, in the exchangeable phase...

Water management in coastal areas with low quality irrigation water for pepper growth.(Report)
September 1, 2010... ABSTRACT This study assessed the effect of deficit irrigation and ion deposition in the substrate for pepper plants (Capsicum annuum L.). The results indicated that development of plants in the control treatment can substitute for those...

Coastal vulnerability to oil spill pollution: the case of Noirmoutier Island (France).(Case study)
September 1, 2010... ABSTRACT Over the last 30 years, oil spills have contributed significantly to coastal and marine pollution, causing disturbance of the coastal environment. This recurrent hazard has increasingly been taken into account through prevention...

Wave overtopping of levees and overwash of Dunes.(Report)
September 1, 2010... ABSTRACT Earthen levees are designed for little wave overtopping during a design storm, but excessive overtopping and overflow can occur due to the combined effects of an extreme storm, sea level rise, and land subsidence. The transition from...

Hurricanes, floods, levees, and nutria: vegetation responses to interacting disturbance and fertility regimes with implications for coastal wetland restoration.(Report)
September 1, 2010... ABSTRACT A primary cause of wetland loss in the Louisiana coastal zone has been the construction of flood control levees along the Mississippi River. These levees restrict the inputs of freshwater, nutrients, and sediment that historically...

Predicting the impact of large-scale tidal wetland restoration on morphodynamics and habitat evolution in South San Francisco Bay, California.(Report)
September 1, 2010... ABSTRACT Tidal wetland restoration of up to 54 [km.sup.2] of diked subsided former salt ponds over the next 50 years is the major component of the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, in the southern arm of the San Francisco Bay estuary....

Geomorphic processes in the vicinity of the Venkatapur River mouth, central west coast of India: implications for estuarine sedimentation.(Report)
September 1, 2010... ABSTRACT We discuss geomorphic processes in the vicinity of river mouths of the central west coast of India using the Venkatapur River as a representative. Multidate satellite image analyses, wave-refraction patterns, time-series beach...

The biological flora of coastal dunes and wetlands: Spartina patens (W. Aiton) G.H. Muhlenberg.(Report)
September 1, 2010... ABSTRACT Spartina patens (W. Alton) G.H. Muhlenberg is a New World tropical-, subtropical-, and temperate-zone rhizomatous grass that often is a dominant species in coastal environments. It occurs in habitats ranging from foredunes to...

Management proposal for an intermittently closed coastal lagoon using a wave-driven seawater pump and a volume-salinity box model.(Report)
September 1, 2010... ABSTRACT A SIBEO (Spanish acronym for sistema de bombeo per energia de oleaje) wave-driven seawater pump is proposed for managing the volume and salinity of a coastal lagoon on the Mexican Pacific coast. The observed variation in volume and...

Near-annual fish kills in small embayments: casual vs. causal factors.(Report)
September 1, 2010... ABSTRACT Fish kills are reported throughout the nation and a great deal of research is conducted in an attempt to determine the cause of these mortality events. Low dissolved oxygen concentrations, eutrophication, and/or harmful algal blooms...

Experimental study of wave breaking of periodic waves on a gravel beach.(Report)
September 1, 2010... ABSTRACT The characteristics of wave breaking for periodic water waves on a gravel beach are investigated by means of a laboratory experiment that employs a wave flume. Until now, most studies of breaking waves have concentrated on...

Tidal couplet formation and preservation, and criteria for discriminating storm-surge sedimentation on the tidal flats of Central Jiangsu Province, China.(Report)
September 1, 2010... ABSTRACT Field observations and grain-size analyses have been conducted on the formation and development of tidal couplets, as well as sedimentation before and after the storm surge of the Typhoon No. 11 of 1997 (Typhoon Winnie) on the tidal...

A survey of cetaceans stranded along the Northern Coast of Tunisia: recent findings (2005-2008) and a short review of the literature.(Report)
September 1, 2010... ABSTRACT This study reports cases of stranded cetaceans observed along the northern coast of Tunisia from December 2005 to February 2008. A total of nine toothed whales were examined, belonging to four different species: sperm whale (Physeter...

Corrigendum.(Correction notice)
September 1, 2010... Correction of Otvos, E.G., 2010. Definition of barrier islands: discussion of: Pilkey, O.H.; Cooper, J.A.G., and Lewis, D.A., 2009. Journal of Coastal Research, 26(4), 787. Two references were left out or incorrectly reproduced. The correct...