Western Carolina University

Below you will find recent documents including reports, publications and presentations authored by PSDS staff. Under that are documents, categorized by topic, created by PSDS staff prior to 2005.

• A Fiscal Analysis of Shifting Inlets and Terminal Groins in North Carolina
• Analysis of Proposed DeBordieu (SC) Groin and Beach Nourishment Project
• Mining of Coastal Sand: A Critical Environmental and Economic Problem for Morocco
• Rethinking Living Shorelines: A Position Paper regarding the use of structural stabilization
• Inventory of Coastal Engineering Projects in Coastal National Parks
• The National Storm Surge Database
  

• An Analysis of Coastal Recession Models, North Carolina Coast, 1987.pdf (7.7M)
• GENESIS - Discussion of Generalized Model for Simulating Shoreline Change (GENESIS) 1995.pdf (2.2M)
• GENESIS - Reply to Houston, Rejoinder to Pilkey, etc., 1999.pdf (5.2M)
• Mathematical Modeling of Beach Behavior Doesn't Work, 1994.pdf (3.7M)
• Predicting Behavior of Beaches-Alternatives to Models 1994.pdf (962K)
• Use of Mathematical Models to Predict Beach Behavior for US Coastal Engineering-Critical Review 2000.pdf  (4.9M)

• Analysis of Replenished Beach Design Parameters on US East Coast Barrier Islands 1990.pdf (2.5M)
• Beach Replenishment- The National Solution.pdf  (8.5M)
• Beach Replenishment on US Continental Pacific Coast 1991.pdf (1.5M)Comparison of Beach Nourishment along US Atlantic, Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, and New England Shores 1999.pdf (1.2M)
• Comparison of Beach Replenishment on US Atlantic, Pacific, & Gulf Coasts 1990.pdf (1.5M)
• PURPLE REPORT DISCUSSION, The Fox Guarding the Hen House (Editorial) 1995; Discussion 1997; Reply 1997.pdf (2.3M)
• Summary of Beach Nourishment Activity along the Great Lakes' Shoreline (1955-1996) 1999.pdf (2.0M)
• Summary of Beach Nourishment Episodes on the US East Coast Barrier Islands 1999.pdf (3.7M)
• Summary of Beach Nourishment along the US Gulf of Mexico Shoreline 1991.pdf (2.1M)
• Summary of New England Beach Nourishment Experience (1935-1996) 1998.pdf (1.8M)
• What You Know Can Hurt You--Predicting the Behavior of Nourished Beaches, in PREDICTION.pdf (15M)

• Algarve Barrier Islands - A Noncoastal-Plain System in Portugal 1989.pdf (17M)
• Barrier Island Evolution on the Subsiding Central Pacific Coast, Colombia, S.A., 2000.pdf (9.1M) 
• Basin plains; Giant sedimentation events, 1988.pdf (4.8M)
• Coastal Erosion --unknown date and publication.pdf (7.1M)
• Boundary Conditions and Long-Term Shoreline Change Rates for the Southern Virginia Ocean Coastline, plus Discussions,, 1991-92.pdf (9.5M)
• Concept of Shoreface Profile for Equilibrium-Critical Review 1992.pdf (4.6M)
• Erosion of the United States Shoreline 1992.pdf (5.4M)
• Discussion of Wang, Kraus, Davis, 1998-Total Longshore Sediment Transport Rate in the Surf Zone-Field Measurements and Empirical Predictions -- 1999.pdf (600K)
• Fetch Limited Barrier Islands of Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay 2005.pdf (2.6M)
• Longshore Drift - Trapped in an Expected Universe 2004.pdf (1.3M)
• Quantitative Evaluation of Coastal Geomorphological Changes in SC after Hurricane Hugo 1991.pdf (1.9M)
• The Relative Influence of Humans on Barrier Islands-Humans versus Geomorphology 2005.pdf (9.9M)
• Tropical Barrier Islands of Colombia's Pacific Coast, 1995.pdf (14M)

• Reducing Vulnerability in Five NC Communities- A Model Approach for Identifying, Mapping, & Mitigating Coastal Hazards 1991.pdf (5.0M)
• Mitigation of Hurricane Property Damage on Barrier Islands-Geological View (Abstract).pdf (43K)
• Geologists, Engineers, and a Rising Sea Level 2000.pdf (883K)
• Sea-level rise and shoreline retreat -- time to abandon the Bruun Rule 2004.pdf (13M)
• Society and Sea Level Rise (Science Perspectives) 2004.pdf (331K)

• Effects of Hard Stabilization on Dry Beach Width for New Jersey 1991.pdf (4.1M)
• Rapid Formation of Large Coastal Sand Bodies after Emplacement of Magdalena River Jetties, Northern Colombia, 1990.pdf (3.1M)
• Seawalls vs Beaches 1988.pdf (3.5M)
• The Engineering of Sand 1989.pdf (2.3M)

• Another View of the Maturity of Our Science, 1998.pdf (2.4M)
• Truth in Science, 1990.pdf (1.1M)
• Managed Retreat, 2005.pdf (6.0M)
• Review of THE CORPS AND THE SHORE, by Houston&Dean.pdf (1.5M)
• SKIDAWAY1 - Saving the American Beach-A Position Paper by Concerned Coastal Geologists (Skidaway Conference) 1981.pdf (1.9M)
• SKIDAWAY2 - National Strategy for Beach Preservation - Second Skidaway Conference 1985.pdf (1.0M)
• Lessons from Lighthouses-Shifting Sands, Coastal Management Strategies, and the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Controversy.pdf (12M)
• Realism in Response to Shoreline Erosion Problems-A Call for a New World Order, 1991.pdf (5.9M)