A5085990042- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Geological formations and processes
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Geological and Geophysical Studies
- Seismology and Earthquake Studies
- Earthquake Detection and Analysis
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
- Geological Studies and Exploration
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
- Planetary Science and Exploration
Center for Coastal Studies
2021-2022
Northeastern University
2021-2022
The Nature Conservancy
2022
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
2015-2018
University of Rhode Island
2014
Abstract Coastal bays and, specifically, back‐barrier tidal basins host productive ecosystems, coastal communities, and critical infrastructure. As sea level continues to rise tropical cyclones increase in intensity, these systems are increasingly at risk. Developing a sediment budget is imperative understanding how storm events affect the system's resilience, where net import of indicates growth resilience against rise, export deterioration. Using high‐resolution numerical simulations, we...
Abstract Classifying images using supervised machine learning (ML) relies on labeled training data—classes or text descriptions, for example, associated with each image. Data‐driven models are only as good the data used training, and this points to importance of high‐quality developing a ML model that has predictive skill. Labeling is typically time‐consuming, manual process. Here, we investigate process labeling data, specific focus coastal aerial imagery captured in wake hurricanes...
Abstract Characterizing the fragility, resistance, and resilience of marshes is critical for understanding their role in reducing storm damages helping to manage recovery these natural defenses. This study uses high-resolution aerial imagery quantify impacts Hurricane Michael, a category 5 hurricane, on coastal salt Florida Panhandle, USA. Marsh damage was classified into several categories, including deposition sediment or wrack, fallen trees, vegetation loss, conversion open water. The...
Castagno, K.A.; Donnelly, J.P., and Woodruff, J.D., 2021. Grain-size analysis of hurricane-induced event beds in a New England salt marsh, Massachusetts, USA. Journal Coastal Research, 37(2), 326–335. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.Tropical cyclones pose growing threat to coastal infrastructure livelihood. Because instrumental historic records are too short help us understand interactions between tropical climate on longer scale, proxy the only means for reconstructing millennia...
As coastal communities grow more vulnerable to sea-level rise and increased storminess, have turned nature-based solutions bolster resilience protection. Marshes significant wave attenuation properties can play an important role in protection for many communities. Many restoration projects seek maximize this ecosystem service but how much marsh is enough deliver measurable benefits still unknown. This question critical guiding assessments of cost effectiveness funding, implementation,...
Mangroves have demonstrated the potential to provide engineering services shorelines through wave attenuation, inland load reduction, and erosion mitigation. However, confidently leverage these other natural nature-based features as coastal protection alternatives, their performance must be quantified over a broad range of environmental conditions that may interact with systems in nature, ranging from daily stressors extreme events. This paper examines attenuation 236 vessel-generated wakes...
This study uses an ecosystem services framework to document the current relationship between salt marsh restoration and shellfishing industry in five towns on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA. Salt marshes their natural form provide many ecologic, economic, aesthetic benefits coastal communities. Human alterations (including ditching, diking, filling), however, restrict water flow, substantially reducing available these projects have been implemented along landscapes attempt reclaim original...
Abstract As sea levels rise and the frequency of flooding events increases, so do efforts to stabilize coastal shorelines. Nature‐based solutions shoreline stabilization (“green” solutions, as opposed traditional “grey” hardening) have been increasingly adopted in Gulf Mexico mid‐Atlantic regions United States, but they are only beginning be implemented, documented, understood northeastern States. This case study contrasts two projects directly across from each other on banks Mystic River,...