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Coastal Processes: General
Coastal Landforms, Coastal Processes and Erosion Control on Cape Cod and Southern Plymouth, Massachusetts
O'Connell, J.F. (ed.)
DVD, Approximately 76 minutes, 2006 WHOI-V-07-001
These Dunes Aren't Made for Walking
Woods Hole Sea Grant
Poster (11" x 15"), 2006 WHOI-G-06-001
Printed on waterproof stock, this poster describes the importance
of dunes as a first line of defense against ocean waves and encourages
beachgoers not to trample the dunes.
Portfolio: Estuarine and Coastal Processes
Woods Hole Sea Grant
18 pp., 2005 WHOI-Q-05-003
Also available online as a PDF file: click here
Learn more of how, over the past three decades, Woods Hole Sea Grant
has invested in research, extension, and outreach in the programmatic
theme area Estuarine and Coastal Processes. This investment has
resulted in better understanding of the physical, chemical, geological,
and biological processes of coastal habitats. This information has
been applied to critical management decisions in the coastal zone
including water quality issues, shoreline erosion and storm damage,
and food web dynamics.
Cape Cod Landforms and Coastal Processes
O'Connell, J.F. (ed.)
Poster (28" x 22"), $7.50 (includes mailing costs), quantity
discounts also available, 2004 WHOI-G-04-004
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here.
Northeast Beaches: A Balancing Act
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available on loan from the National Sea Grant Library
Urban Harbors Institute, University of Massachusetts
Abstracts from a conference held at the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution October 23-26, 2002, 50 pp. WHOI-W-02-002
Can Humans & Coastal Landforms
Co-exist?: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution, Woods Hole, MA, January 24, 2001
O'Connell, J.F. (ed.)
WHOI Technical Report WHOI-2001-14, 118 pp., $6.00, 2001 WHOI-W-01-001
(Click here to view this document as
a 1.3 MB PDF file.) 
Hydrodynamic Controls on Multiple
Tidal Inlet Persistence
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available on loan from the National Sea Grant Library
Salles, P.
Doctoral Dissertation. Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied
Ocean Science and Engineering, 272 pp., February 2001 WHOI-Y-01-001
Coastal Landform System Sustainability
Project: An Analysis of Activities Permitted on Coastal Landforms
on Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1999
O'Connell, J.F.
WHOI Technical Report WHOI-2000-09, 58 pp., $6.00, 2000 WHOI-T-00-001
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as a 464 KB PDF file.)
Theme Booklet: Estuarine and Coastal
Processes
WHOI Sea Grant
4 pp., 2000 WHOI-G-00-005
Also available online: click
here
Learn more of WHOI Sea Grant's investment in estuarine and coastal
processes which has resulted in better understanding of the physical,
chemical, geological, and biological processes of coastal habitats.
This information has been applied to critical management decisions
in the coastal zone including water quality issues, shoreline erosion
and storm damage, and food web dynamics.
Coastal Landform Mangement in Massachusetts:
Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Woods Hole, MA USA, October 9-10, 1997
Crago, T.I. and S.D. DeRosa (eds.)
WHOI Technical Report WHOI-98-16, 119 pp., $12.00, 1998 WHOI-W-97-001
(Click here to view this document as a
2.3 MB PDF file.)
The workshop was designed to benefit resource management decision-makers
through interactive exercises and discussions of coastal problems
ranging from those that arise everyday to those of unusual complexity.
The immediate objective of the workshop was to improve familiarity
with existing management methodologies. The long-term objective
was to improve the methodologies themselves.
A Comparison of Methods to Determine
K in a Shallow Coastal Aquifer
Milham, N.P. and B.L. Howes
Ground Water, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 49-57, 1995 WHOI-R-95-001
Nutrient Balance of a Shallow Coastal
Embayment: I. Patterns of Groundwater Discharge
Milham, N.P. and B.L. Howes
Marine Ecology Progress Series, Vol. 112, pp. 155-167, 1994 WHOI-R-94-004
Transport of Juvenile Gem Clams (Gemma
gemma) in a Headland Wake
Rankin, K.L., L.S. Mullineaux, and W.R. Geyer
Estuaries, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 655-667, 1994 WHOI-R-94-006
Accumulation of bivalve recruits in the bottom convergence at the
center of coastal eddies has been suggested as a possible mechanism
resulting in locally abundant adult populations. The authors investigated
transport of juvenile gem clams (Gemma gemma) in a headland
wake to determine whether they accumulated, and where. Velocity
measurements during three flood tides showed that a wake consistently
formed, but that flow speeds were too slow to transport juvenile
clams to the eddy center. Instead, the clams were deposited just
inside the wake perimeter, where shear velocities decreased to levels
below critical erosion velocities of the clams. This result demonstrated
that accumulation in a coastal flow separation can occur even in
the absence of a well-defined eddy or a strong bottom convergence.
Juvenile gem clams were carried, probably as bedload, to regions
in the wake dominated by sediments with similar grain sizes, rather
than similar fall velocities, suggesting that bedload transport
was particularly dependent on particle diameter in this flow regime.
Adult gem clam populations tended to be locally abundant in regions
receiving transported juveniles, but clam transport on any specific
flood tide was not sufficient to fully predict the adult distributions.
Coastal and Estuarine Studies. Formation
and Evolution of Multiple Tidal Inlets
This publication is only available from: American
Geophysical Union, 2000 Florida Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20009,
U.S.A.
Aubrey, D.G. and G.S. Giese (eds.)
American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., Vol. 44, 237 pp.,
1993
Quantifying Dissolved Nitrogen Flux
Through a Coastal Watershed
Weiskel, P.K. and B.L. Howes
Water Resources Research, Vol. 27, No. 11, pp. 2929-2939, 1991 WHOI-R-91-005
Available nitrogen loading models, commonly used to estimate subsurface
fluxes of dissolved nitrogen to coastal waters, have not been quantitatively
or systematically compared; nor have they generally been field-verified
at regional scales. The authors employed three published loading
models, a site-specific model based upon water use data, and both
Darcian and non-Darcian field approaches to obtain estimates of
steady state, dissolved nitrogen flux through a permeable Massachusetts
watershed. Loading models, if properly verified by field measurements
at the stream tube scale, hold promise for characterizing the effects
of land use on subsurface nitrogen flux through coastal watersheds.
Nitrogen Inputs to a Marine Embayment:
The Importance of Groundwater
Helpful to educators and students.
Giblin, A.E. and A.G. Gaines
Biogeochemistry, Vol. 10, pp. 309-328, 1990 WHOI-R-90-012
The authors examined the importance of nitrogen inputs from groundwater
and runoff in a small coastal marine cove on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Groundwater inputs were evaluated in three different methods: a
water budget, assuming discharge equals recharge; direct measurements
of discharge using bell jars; and a budget of water and salt at
the mouth of the Cove over several tidal cycles. The lowest estimates
were obtained by using a water budget and the highest estimates
were obtained using a budget of water and salt at the Cove mouth.
Overall there was more than a five fold difference in the freshwater
inputs calculated by using these methods. Nitrogen in groundwater
appears to be largely derived from on site septic systems. Average
nitrate concentrations were highest in the region where building
density was greatest. Nitrate in groundwater appeared to behave
conservatively in sandy sediments where groundwater flow rates were
high (>11/m2/h), indicating that denitrification was not substantially
reducing external nitrogen loading to the Cove. Nitrogen inputs
from groundwater were approximately 300 mmol-N/m3/y of Cove water.
Road runoff contributed an additional 60 mmol/m3/y. Total nitrogen
inputs from groundwater and road runoff to this cove were similar
in magnitude to river dominated estuaries in urbanized areas in
the United States.
Geodetic Fixing of Tide Gauge Bench
Marks
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available on loan from the National Sea Grant Library
Carter, W.E., D.G. Aubrey, T. Baker, C. Boucher, C. LeProvost, D.
Pugh, W.R. Peltier, M. Zumberge, R.H. Rapp, R.E. Schutz, K.O. Emery,
and D.B. Enfield
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Technical Report WHOI-89-31
(CRC-89-5), 44 pp., 1989 WHOI-T-89-009
The Characteristics of the China Coastline
Wang, Y. and D.G. Aubrey
Continental Shelf Research, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 329-349, 1987 WHOI-R-87-011
An Improved Loran-C Drifting Buoy
and Drogue for Coastal Applications
Burke, W.J.
Ph.D. Thesis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution Joint Education Program, 1 p. (abstract only), 1983
WHOI-X-83-002
Survey of Shoreline Structures--Popponesset
Beach, Massachusetts
Only
available on loan from the National Sea Grant Library
Goud, M.R. and D.G. Aubrey
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Technical Report WHOI-83-14,
32 pp., 1983 WHOI-T-83-001
Trace Element Enrichments in Decomposing
Litter of Spartina alterniflora
Breteler, R.J., J.M. Teal, A.E. Giblin, and I. Valiela
Aquatic Botany, Vol. 11, pp. 111-120, 1981 WHOI-R-81-019
Our Dynamic Coastline
Helpful to educators and students.
Aubrey, D.G.
Oceanus, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 4-13, 1980 WHOI-R-80-019
The beaches of the United States, which include the most extensive
barrier beaches in the world, constitute a valuable and delicate
resource that must be managed intelligently to avoid loss of their
recreational benefits, storm protection, and aesthetic appeal. Beaches
are complex systems: they are forced by complex atmospheric and
oceanic behavior and respond in an equally complex manner. This
article discusses geological factors that control shoreline features,
nearshore hydrodynamics, and beach response. The author concludes
by pointing out that our scientific understanding of beaches is,
in some respects, not sufficient to meet the requirements of coastal
zone management in establishing beach policies and guidelines. Dr.
Aubrey calls for a continuation of active research in beach processes
in general, including barrier beach systems, as well as the need
for the scientific community to work closely with the public to
educate and communicate various scientific alternatives available
for managing our beaches.
Proceedings of a Workshop on Coastal
Zone Research in Massachusetts
Only
available on loan from the National Sea Grant Library
Aubrey, D.G.
1979 WHOI-W-79-001
Grain Size in Laminae of Beach Sand
Emery, K.O.
1978 WHOI-R-78-009
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