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Tuesday, July 16 at 1:00 pm Eastern
Dr. Ping Wang
University of South Florida
Please join us on Tuesday, July 16, for this months seminar talk, which will be given by Dr. Ping Wang from the University of South Florida on "Morphodynamics of West-Central Florida Barrier-Inlet System and 35 Years of Beach Nourishment" The in-person seminar will be held in Conference Room B. Click here to join the virtual meeting.
West-central Florida coast is composed of a chain of barrier islands, many of which are heavily developed. The morphodynamics of this coast is controlled by the beach-inlet interaction through both natural and anthropogenically modified processes. In order to effectively manage the sandy beaches and tidal inlets and improve coastal resiliency, in-depth understanding and predictive capability of beach-inlet interaction are necessary. In the first part of this talk, I will discuss the beach-inlet interaction along the west-central Florida coast based on field observations and numerical modeling.
Beaches along three heavily developed west-central Florida barrier islands, Sand Key, Treasure Island, and Long Key, have been nourished repeatedly over the past 35 years. For the most part, the beach nourishment projects have successfully maintained a healthy beach (Figure 1). In the second part of this talk, I will discuss the performance of the beach-nourishment cycles, as partly controlled by the beach-inlet interaction, since the late 1980s and early 1990s. I will discuss the questions: are beach nourishments merely a maintenance practice or an effective resiliency building strategy?
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