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|bgcolor="gray" align="left"| Galveston Barrier Island, on September 9. Ike made its final landfall near [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston Galveston], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas Texas]. Galveston experienced a bust after a major 1900 storm, but recovered as a tourist resort from the 1930’s onwards. It remains vulnerable today. | |bgcolor="gray" align="left"| Galveston Barrier Island, on September 9, 2008. Ike made its final landfall near [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston Galveston], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas Texas]. Galveston experienced a bust after a major 1900 storm, but recovered as a tourist resort from the 1930’s onwards. It remains vulnerable today. | ||
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Science spotlights
Boom-and-bust cycles of barrier island retreat
Science in the spotlight: December 2010 - January 2011
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Coupled Barrier Island-Resort Model Barrier Islands, the low-lying sandy strips separated from the coast by a lagoon, are a favorite location to built beach resorts. Whereas a natural barrier system would steadily migrate with sea-level rise, barriers evolution is now dynamically coupled to human action to prevent storm erosion. CSDMS scientist Dylan McNamara, currently at the University of North Carolina, has been on the forefront of coupled modeling of barrier island physical processes and human factors such as hazard mitigation driven by market development. References
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