Patrick Barnard
Patrick is the Research Director for the Climate Impacts and Coastal Processes Team, which includes overseeing the development and application of the Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS), coastal monitoring and process-based studies of beaches across California, and research investigating the link between climate variability and coastal hazards across the Pacific Ocean basin.
Dr. Patrick Barnard has been a coastal geologist with the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center in Santa Cruz since 2003, and is the Research Director of the Climate Impacts and Coastal Processes Team. His research focuses on storm- and climate-related changes to the beaches and estuaries bordering the Pacific Ocean. His research has been published in over 80 peer-reviewed scientific papers, including Nature, and presented over 100 times at scientific conferences and universities. He serves on numerous regional, national and international scientific review panels related to climate change and coastal hazards. He received a BA from Williams College, MS from University of South Florida, and PhD from UC Riverside.
Science and Products
Integration of bed characteristics, geochemical tracers, current measurements, and numerical modeling for assessing the provenance of beach sand in the San Francisco Bay Coastal System
Over 150 million m3 of sand-sized sediment has disappeared from the central region of the San Francisco Bay Coastal System during the last half century. This enormous loss may reflect numerous anthropogenic influences, such as watershed damming, bay-fill development, aggregate mining, and dredging. The reduction in Bay sediment also appears to be linked to a reduction in sediment supply and recent
The offshore export of sand during exceptional discharge from California rivers
A seamless, high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) of the north-central California coast
Beach response dynamics of a littoral cell using a 17-year single-point time series of sand thickness
Synthesis study of an erosion hot spot, Ocean Beach, California
Nearshore bathymetric evolution on a high-energy beach during the 2009-10 El Nino winter
Small-scale sediment transport patterns and bedform morphodynamics: New insights from high resolution multibeam bathymetry
Recent scientific advances and their implications for sand management near San Francisco, California: The influences of the ebb tidal delta
A numerical model investigation of the formation and persistence of an erosion hotspot
Overview of the ARkStorm scenario
The U.S. Geological Survey, Multi Hazards Demonstration Project (MHDP) uses hazards science to improve resiliency of communities to natural disasters including earthquakes, tsunamis, wildfires, landslides, floods and coastal erosion. The project engages emergency planners, businesses, universities, government agencies, and others in preparing for major natural disasters. The project also helps to
Anthropogenic influences on shoreline and nearshore evolution in the San Francisco Bay coastal system
Pressure-gradient-driven nearshore circulation on a beach influenced by a large inlet-tidal shoal system
Non-USGS Publications**
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
Science and Products
Integration of bed characteristics, geochemical tracers, current measurements, and numerical modeling for assessing the provenance of beach sand in the San Francisco Bay Coastal System
Over 150 million m3 of sand-sized sediment has disappeared from the central region of the San Francisco Bay Coastal System during the last half century. This enormous loss may reflect numerous anthropogenic influences, such as watershed damming, bay-fill development, aggregate mining, and dredging. The reduction in Bay sediment also appears to be linked to a reduction in sediment supply and recent
The offshore export of sand during exceptional discharge from California rivers
A seamless, high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) of the north-central California coast
Beach response dynamics of a littoral cell using a 17-year single-point time series of sand thickness
Synthesis study of an erosion hot spot, Ocean Beach, California
Nearshore bathymetric evolution on a high-energy beach during the 2009-10 El Nino winter
Small-scale sediment transport patterns and bedform morphodynamics: New insights from high resolution multibeam bathymetry
Recent scientific advances and their implications for sand management near San Francisco, California: The influences of the ebb tidal delta
A numerical model investigation of the formation and persistence of an erosion hotspot
Overview of the ARkStorm scenario
The U.S. Geological Survey, Multi Hazards Demonstration Project (MHDP) uses hazards science to improve resiliency of communities to natural disasters including earthquakes, tsunamis, wildfires, landslides, floods and coastal erosion. The project engages emergency planners, businesses, universities, government agencies, and others in preparing for major natural disasters. The project also helps to
Anthropogenic influences on shoreline and nearshore evolution in the San Francisco Bay coastal system
Pressure-gradient-driven nearshore circulation on a beach influenced by a large inlet-tidal shoal system
Non-USGS Publications**
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.