Science news articles about 'barrier islands'

Barrier islands, some of the most dynamic landforms on Earth, are particularly vulnerable to storms.

... . Smith, professor and Charles H. Babcock Chair of Botany at Wake Forest University, leads the Coastal Barrier Island Network (CBIN), an international group of scientists studying ...

... forms and ecosystems. Controlling processes that influence vulnerability and resilience of barrier island ecosystems occur over many spatial and temporal scales. Feagin explained that because ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, June 13 (UPI) -- The endangered Atlantic leatherback turtle, unlike the swallows' annual trek to Capistrano, took 70 years to return to barrier islands off the Texas coast.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The nation's second oldest national wildlife refuge, a chain of barrier islands southeast of New Orleans, is in danger of being lost unless the islands ...

Fragile barrier islands along the Gulf Coast are being all but obliterated by hurricanes.

... occurrence. A team working on Phra Thong, a barrier island along the hard-hit west ... Aceh, a province at the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra where more than half the deaths from the 2004 ...

... role storms play in building and eroding barrier islands such as Galveston. "The big question is whether ... too far off shore to be incorporated into the barrier system. The pre- and post-Ike survey ...

Students measuring the loss of sand on the barrier island of Grand Isle, La., are seeing coastal erosion happen before their eyes. Dean Moosavi takes students in his ...

... that requires people to build homes in the correct locations," he said. "If we covered a barrier island such as Galveston with concrete, you could say it was stabilized. But without the natural ...

Sea level rise fueled by global warming threatens the barrier islands and coastal wetlands of the Middle Atlantic States, a federal report warned.

... storms and more intense storms. Using models of coastal systems that include elements such as barrier islands, wetlands, estuaries and coastal groundwater supplies, the researchers will combine the ...

... ARISE AND WHAT DO THEY TELL US ABOUT PROCESSES? From repeated patterns on sand dunes to similar shapes of barrier islands, myriad land patterns at all scales can be seen ...