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Tomenchok, Lara E., Maribeth L. Gidley, Kristina D. Mena, Alesia C. Ferguson, and Helena M. Solo-Gabriele. "Children’s Abrasions in Recreational Beach Areas and a Review of Possible Wound Infections." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 11 (June 6, 2020): 4060. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17114060.

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The Beach Exposure and Child Health Study (BEACHES) quantified the behavior of children at recreational beach areas to evaluate how various behaviors might affect their exposure to environmental contaminants such as bacteria and chemicals. Due to limited information in the study about abrasions, we conducted a literature review to examine how marine bacteria cause infections in open wounds. The literature review revealed possible adverse health effects from the bacterium Vibrio vulnificus due to its increasing prevalence and the severity of infection. We used data from the BEACHES study to review children’s behavior and their susceptibility to abrasions. Children six years of age and younger were evaluated before and after 1 h of play for open or healing abrasions at two beaches in Miami-Dade County, Florida (Crandon and Haulover), and two beaches in Galveston County, Texas (Stewart and Seawall). The children were videotaped to monitor their activities and to determine the behavior that would increase their susceptibility to obtaining abrasions. Overall, 58.2% of the children had at least one existing abrasion before playing at the beach, while 8.2% of the children acquired a new abrasion during their time at the beach. Children who acquired new abrasions most often played in the sea water, with new abrasions most frequently occurring on exposed skin surfaces such as the knees. Proper wound care before and after visiting the beach should be encouraged to minimize the risk of bacterial infection, especially considering the possible detrimental impacts that can be caused by some bacterial pathogens through wound exposures.

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Altomare, Tanu, Patrick M. Tarwater, Alesia C. Ferguson, Helena M. Solo-Gabriele, and Kristina D. Mena. "Estimating Health Risks to Children Associated with Recreational Play on Oil Spill-Contaminated Beaches." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 1 (December 27, 2020): 126. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18010126.

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The human health impact from exposure to contaminated shorelines following an oil spill event has been investigated to some extent. However, the health risks to children have largely been characterized through the use of surveys and extrapolation from adult health outcomes. There is limited information on children’s behaviors during beach play requiring assumptions made based on observations from play activities in home settings. The Beach Exposure and Child Health Study (BEACHES) quantified specific beach activities that can be used to inform human health risk assessments of children playing on beaches impacted by oil spills. The results of this study characterize children’s risk of cancer from exposure to oil spill chemicals by incorporating exposure-related information collected from the BEACHES study and by assuming oral, dermal, and inhalation exposure routes. Point risk estimates are compared with a previous, similar study that applied default exposure parameter values obtained from the published literature. The point risk estimates informed by BEACHES data are one order of magnitude lower compared with the previous risk assessment, with dermal exposures the overall risk driver in both. Additional Monte Carlo simulations evaluating the BEACHES data provide ranges of health risks with the highest estimates associated with dermal and oral exposure routes.

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Kwon, Bum Gun, Jea-Jun Ko, and Jeong-Hun Park. "Qualitative Evaluation of Factors Inducing Environmental Pollution of the Sandy Beaches of Jeju Island Using Styrene Oligomers." Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers 43, no. 12 (December 31, 2021): 700–708. http://dx.doi.org/10.4491/ksee.2021.43.12.700.

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Objectives : Plastic pollution is a very important environmental issue in Korea as well as abroad. The objective of this study is to evaluate the internal and external factors that cause pollution of the coastal environment of Jeju Island using styrene oligomers (SOs) originated from polystyrene (PS) plastic.Methods : In order to achieve the above objective, this study is conducted to quantitatively measure the concentration of 12 individual SOs chemicals, through gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy (GC/MS) analyzing seawater and beach sand samples around sandy beaches in Jeju Island. This study evaluates the degree of environmental pollution according to internal or external factors of the sandy beach by using the physicochemical characteristic that SOs species are adsorbed on the surface of sand particles.Results and Discussion : The average concentration of SOs in the beach sand of Jeju Island ranges from a minimum of 9.80 ng/g to a maximum of 13.62 ng/g, and the average concentration of SOs in seawater is relatively low with a constant 0.05 to 0.11 µg/L. Although the concentration distribution of SOs species differs considerably depending on the sample collected, the concentration of SOs decreases in the order of styrene trimers (7 isomers) > styrene dimers (4 isomers) > styrene monomer. As a result of monitoring, the concentration of SOs at the sandy beaches of Jeju Island is much higher in the beach sand than in the seawater. This result means that the major beaches of Jeju Island can be polluted mainly by internal factors (e.g. population density, number of travelers according to population movement, and so on), because SOs species are adsorbed on the surface of the sand particles and their mobility is limited.Conclusions : This study shows that the sandy beaches of Jeju Island are mainly polluted by internal factors. It is thought that the pollution degree of the sandy beaches is the highest in the order of Gwakji Beach < Samyang Beach, Hamdeok Beach, Pyoseon Beach < Ihoteho Beach, Sagye Beach < Seopjikoji Beach, Gimnyeong Beach, and Hyeopjae Beach. This study is expected to contribute to the evaluation of the causes of plastic pollution in the coastal environment of Jeju Island.

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Afghan, Afghan, Carlo Cerrano, Giorgia Luzi, Barbara Calcinai, Stefania Puce, Torcuato Pulido Mantas, Camilla Roveta, and Cristina Gioia Di Camillo. "Main Anthropogenic Impacts on Benthic Macrofauna of Sandy Beaches: A Review." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 8, no. 6 (June 3, 2020): 405. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jmse8060405.

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Sandy beaches provide several ecosystem services such as coastal protection and resilience, water filtration and nutrient mineralization. Beaches also represent a hub for social, cultural and economic relationships as well as educational activities. Increasing urbanization, recreational activities and mechanical beach cleaning represent major anthropogenic disturbances on sandy beaches leading to loss of biodiversity as well as good and services. Information about the impacts of anthropogenic pressures on benthic macrofaunal communities could be useful to assess the environmental status of sandy beaches and to promote a sustainable use of beach ecosystem. Here, scientific articles about three major anthropogenic impacts on sandy beach macrofauna were reviewed to provide the state of knowledge about these impacts, to highlight gaps, to supply considerations about the methodologies and the used indicators and to give insights for future studies. The stressors considered in our review are: 1) trampling, 2) breakwater barriers, 3) mechanical beach cleaning. This review underlined that there are few studies regarding individual human disturbances on sandy beach macrofauna and specifically, there is a lack of sufficient indicator species for the assessment of such stressors. Similarly, the researches have covered specific regions, highlighting the need for such studies in other parts of the world. In particular, the impacts of breakwater barriers on surrounding communities has been found to be given less attention in the literature and there is enough that could be explored.

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Freed-Thall, Hannah. "Beaches and Ports." Comparative Literature 73, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 131–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00104124-8874051.

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Abstract This introduction theorizes the littoral zone as a space for rethinking comparative literature and the environmental humanities. Beaches and ports are among the twentieth century’s most vexed and polyvalent cultural geographies. The article contends that the tidelands should be approached as a representational and geophysical overlap, an amalgamation of industry, biology, text, and image. Beaches and ports are ecological and industrial force fields: spaces of prohibition and pleasure, labor and play, exposure and refuge. They are the staging grounds and terraformed dreamscapes of carbon-based capitalism—but they are also potential commons in which different rhythms of existence come into view.

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Zadel, Zrinka, Daniela Gračan, and Vedran Milojica. "Beaches as a Factor in Achieving Competitiveness of a Tourist Product-Case Study." Pomorstvo 32, no. 1 (June 20, 2018): 102–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.31217/p.32.1.11.

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Beaches are the main part of an integral tourist product of a destination. They represent a highly valuable resource from the aspect of natural, social, economic and recreational potential. They make a tourist product attractive, and represent a motive of arrival to a destination for a certain number of tourists. In order for a beach to be placed in a function of tourist offer and positioning of a tourist destination on the tourist market, and for destination´s tourist product to become more attractive, it is necessary to enrich the offer of beaches according to the desires of market segment while respecting the principles of sustainable development. Beach offer of the Istrian County has been analysed within this paper. While preparing this paper, the authors have used the scientific methodology, which means gathering and the analysis of data from primary and secondary sources. An analysis of domestic and foreign professional and scientific literature has been carried out, as well as the valid law frame of beach managing in the Republic of Croatia. With a goal of analysing the existing state of regulation and managing beaches in the Istrian County, an evaluation of beach resources has been carried out.

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Petracco, Marcelo, Ricardo Silva Cardoso, and Alexander Turra. "Patterns of sandy-beach macrofauna production." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 93, no. 7 (April 8, 2013): 1717–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025315413000246.

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Using data available from the literature, patterns of biomass, production and productivity of sandy-beach macrofauna populations were examined, considering environmental (temperature, exposure, grain size and beach slope) and biological variables (life span and mean body mass) and feeding and taxonomic groups. A total of 102 estimates of both production and biomass and 105 estimates of P/B ratios were collected from 52 studies carried out between 42°46′S and 54°05′N, for 83 sandy-beach macrofauna populations. The negative relationship between P/B ratio and beach slope for the supralittoral amphipods agrees with the Habitat Safety Hypothesis, according to which these forms would show higher mortality in dissipative than in reflective beaches. The observed higher production of filter-feeders in exposed than in sheltered beaches suggests that more food is available for filter-feeders in exposed beaches. The higher production of filter-feeders (represented by bivalves and decapods), than of scavengers/predators (peracarids and gastropods) showed the importance of filter-feeders in the food web of sandy beaches. The P/B ratios were strongly related to life span, but weakly or not related to the mean body mass. The high amphipod P/B ratio was attributed to the short life span of these crustaceans; conversely, gastropods showed the lowest P/B ratio, in accordance with their longer life span. The observed differences in biomass, production and P/B ratios within crustaceans and molluscs were attributed to differences in life-history traits and feeding mode.

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Brewster, B. Chris, Richard E. Gould, and Robert W. Brander. "Estimations of rip current rescues and drowning in the United States." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 19, no. 2 (February 22, 2019): 389–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-389-2019.

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Abstract. Rip currents are the greatest hazard to swimmers on surf beaches, but due to a lack of consistent incident reporting in many countries, it is often difficult to quantify the number of rip-current-related rescues and drowning deaths occurring along surf beaches. This study examines this problem using rescue data reported to the United States Lifesaving Association (USLA) by surf beach rescuers from 1997 through 2016. These data were checked, corrected, and culled so that only data from surf beach rescue agencies that reported the primary cause of rescue were included. Results show that rip currents are the primary cause of 81.9 % of rescues on surf beaches, with regional variation from 75.3 % (East Coast) to 84.7 % (West Coast). These values are significantly higher than those previously reported in the scientific literature (e.g., 36.5 %, 53.7 %). Using this value as a proxy when examining overall surf beach drowning fatalities, it is suggested that more than 100 fatal drownings per year occur due to rip currents in the United States. However, it is clear that the United States data would benefit by an increase in the number of lifeguard agencies which report surf-related rescues by primary cause.

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WIRTH-NESHER, H. "This Sand, These Beaches." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 40, no. 3 (June 1, 2007): 309–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/ddnov.040030309.

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Phillips, Matthew. "QUANTIFYING THE WAVE-DRIVEN RECOVERY OF SANDY BEACHES FOLLOWING STORM EROSION." Coastal Engineering Proceedings, no. 37 (October 2, 2023): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v37.sediment.72.

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Following the rapid and destructive impacts of storm erosion, beach recovery is a key natural process of restoration, returning eroded sand to the subaerial beach and rebuilding coastal morphology to continue to support the needs of present-day coastal communities. While more detailed attention in international literature has been given to understanding and predicting beach behaviour under regimes of storm erosion, beaches are for most of the time by nature accretionary features. This paper presents critically important advanced new insight and quantification of recovery processes of sandy beaches by waves. Durations and rates of recovery are synthesised from over 70 studies worldwide in a range of wave climates (from low to high wave energy) and tidal settings (from micro- to macrotidal), with a focus primarily on sandy beach coastlines. A holistic perspective of the different processes and indicators that constitute beach recovery is presented, including those in the subaqueous beach related to the post-storm onshore migration of sandbars and storm deposits in deeper offshore waters, as well as processes in the subaerial beach related to the recovery of subaerial sediment volume, shorelines, berms, and dunes.

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Huntsman, L. F. "In margins and in longings ...: the beach in Australian life and literature." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12333.

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Ellison, Elizabeth Rae. "The Australian beachspace : flagging the spaces of Australian beach texts." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/63468/1/Elizabeth_Ellison_Thesis.pdf.

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The Australian beach is a significant component of the Australian culture and a way of life. The Australian Beachspace explores existing research about the Australian beach from a cultural and Australian studies perspective. Initially, the beach in Australian studies has been established within a binary opposition. Fiske, Hodge, and Turner (1987) pioneered the concept of the beach as a mythic space, simultaneously beautiful but abstract. In comparison, Meaghan Morris (1998) suggested that the beach was in fact an ordinary or everyday space. The research intervenes in previous discussions, suggesting that the Australian beach needs to be explored in spatial terms as well as cultural ones. The thesis suggests the beach is more than these previously established binaries and uses Soja's theory of Thirdspace (1996) to posit the term beachspace as a way of describing this complex site. The beachspace is a lived space that encompasses both the mythic and ordinary and more. A variety of texts have been explored in this work, both film and literature. The thesis examines textual representations of the Australian beach using Soja's Thirdspace as a frame to reveal the complexities of the Australian beach through five thematic chapters. Some of the texts discussed include works by Tim Winton's Breath (2008) and Land's Edge (1993), Robert Drewe's short story collections The Bodysurfers (1987) and The Rip (2008), and films such as Newcastle (dir. Dan Castle 2008) and Blackrock (dir. Steve Vidler 1997). Ultimately The Australian Beachspace illustrates that the multiple meanings of the beach's representations are complex and yet frequently fail to capture the layered reality of the Australian beach. The Australian beach is best described as a beachspace, a complex space that allows for the mythic and/or/both ordinary at once.

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Ackerson, Christiane Plante. "The Soul of Shakespeare and Company| Sylvia Beach's Journey into Leadership." Thesis, Franklin Pierce University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3567797.

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American expatriate Sylvia Beach (1887-1962) is mostly recognized for her contribution to Modernist literature by publishing James Joyce's Ulysses and avant-garde magazines. However, the objective of this study is to resurrect Beach's legacy as a leader by discovering how Beach, through opening Shakespeare and Company, an English-language bookshop in Paris, led the literary community who expatriated to Paris in the early twentieth century. Beach's journey into leadership began when she bravely opened her bookshop in a foreign country in 1919, at the closing of World War I, during a time when few women owned their own businesses. By creating a place, a home away from home, for the disillusioned and disenfranchised expatriates writers, Beach created a safe environment for the expatriates—a place to find their identity. By befriending them, earning their trust, and gaining their help in the Ulysses publishing venture, Beach created an environment of collaboration among the writers, many of whom remained lifelong friends. Beach's business model was unprecedented, and with vision and boldness, at Shakespeare and Company, Beach exemplified leadership by continually helping others, and thus transformed Shakespeare and Company into one of the most recognized bookstores of the time.

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Livingston, Kimberly S. "Sand Beach." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1041889.

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This project consisted of a series of short stories which worked together creating a larger fictional piece in the form of a non-continuous narrative. This non-continuous narrative is in the tradition of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine. The stories in this type of fiction are connected by similar themes and settings, allowing the reader to participate directly in the creative process. The reader helps create the fiction by drawing his or her own conclusions about the characters and places from between the individual stories. By involving the reader more directly in the outcome, this type of narrative creates a more emotional response to the work. Each of the stories in this project were set in a town called Sand Beach, Michigan, and involved four generations of women in a single family. The major themes of the stories were mother/daughter relationships, healing, and redemption. Common images in the stories presented were, Lake Huron, the town of Sand Beach, and a rock in the local region bearing Native American petroglyphs Each of these images participated in the development of the common themes.
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Mostafa, Dona E. "Seagull beach." Scholarly Commons, 1996. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2295.

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Seagull Beach is a creative work about a woman who moves to a seaside town. While there, she is befriended by an artist and volunteers at the aquarium. The woman, Shell, becomes involved in a mystery involving drug smuggling and murder. Shell and her friend, Linda, solve the mystery through a series of unexpected events. Chapter one establishes Shell in Seagull Beach and introduces Linda. The plot begins with a mutilated dolphin on the beach and the appearance of a bald-headed man. Chapter two takes the reader into the aquarium and expands the cast of characters. The plot is further developed during a party scene when an angry exchange is overheard by Shell. The plot thickens, in chapter three, with the meeting of three men in an all night cafe. Later on, Shell sees a picture of the mysterious bald-headed man, in the local newspaper. Chapter three ends with the discovery of Roger's body. Chapter four has Shell and Linda trying to make some sense of Roger's death. Shell receives Roger's diary on the afternoon of his funeral. Chapter five is an important chapter for this work. It is here that we get a glimpse of a drug encounter that sets up the following scene between the drug smugglers. The use of dolphins as drug runners is also established. In the final two scenes, Shell's RV is ransacked, and the man who killed the dolphin is also killed. The suspense heightens in chapter six as Shell and Linda break into Roger's office. Shell later sees the drug delivery take place and has a confrontation as she walks across a dark parking lot. The work ends with an unexpected revelation and a conversation between Shell and Linda.

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Heller, Caroline. "EQUIVOCAL LIFE:LYRICS OF (NON)LIVINGNESS IN S.T COLERIDGE'S "RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER" (1798) AND CHARLOTTE SMITH'S BEACHY HEAD (1807)." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1374066876.

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De, Avila Elizabeth. "An Analysis of Discourse Present in Sex Education Literature from Palm Beach County Middle Schools| Are Kids Really Learning?" Thesis, Florida Atlantic University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10610503.

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Issues of sexual assault have become pervasive across all social strata in American society. Citizens need to start having conversations regarding these issues. To combat the issue of sexual assault, children need to be educated regarding the multifaceted aspects of sex through sex education in order to understand consent and resources they have available to them. Utilizing grounded theory methodology, this thesis analyzes sex education literature provided to Palm Beach County Middle School students. Using Burke’s theory of terministic screens and Foucauldian theories of power and control; an understanding of the ideological underpinnings of this literature and discourse were acquired. After analysis, suggestions for disclosure and sex education programs are provided.

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Butler, Jan. "Record production and the construction of authenticity in the Beach Boys and late-sixties American rock." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13024/.

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This thesis explores the paradox that occurred at the time that rock emerged as a new genre in America in the mid-1960s. Recordings were becoming increasingly manipulated in the studio, but at the same time there emerged a growing ideology of authenticity that developed as the decade progressed, first focussing on records, but ending by privileging live performance. The study falls into three parts. The first traces the development of authenticity in relation to music through history and explores its possible nature in order to illuminate the development of authenticity in relation to rock in the 1960s. The second section writes a history of the record industry in the 1960s, focussing on organisational practices, which I argue were strongly influenced by an ideology of authenticity related to beliefs about the conditions necessary to create art in a commercial framework. These organisational changes lead to the adoption by the industry of the figure of the entrepreneur producer. The final section looks at how the industry interacted with the conflicting ideologies of authenticity that were developed in the counterculture in relation to rock, employing rock cultural intermediaries both to bring rock bands into the industry, and to sell their music back to the counterculture from which they came. The more theoretical points of my discussion are exemplified through the use of a case study of the Beach Boys, whose career spans the decade, and who, despite early success as a rock band, experienced difficulty negotiating the changing ideologies of authenticity that emerged as the decade progressed.

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Eckstein, Lars. "Saturday on Dover Beach : Ian McEwan, Matthew Arnold, and post-9/11 melancholia." Universität Potsdam, 2011. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2012/5922/.

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This essay revisits Ian McEwan’s extremely successful novel Saturday, and interrogates its exemplary assessment of the British cultural climate after 9/11. The particular focus is on McEwan’s extensive recourse to the writings of Matthew Arnold, whose melancholy outlook on culture and anarchy McEwan basically translates into the 21st century without much ideological fraction. This relapse into Victorian liberal humanism as consolation for a Western world besieged by the contingencies of terrorism is extremely problematic. Not only does it wilfully ignore the transcultural realities of modern Britain, it also promotes an ahistorical and apolitical mode of critical inquiry which may be called reductive at best in view of the global challenges that the novel addresses.

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Finch, Edward F. Holsinger M. Paul. "An hour or two using naval fiction in the United States history course /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9960413.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1999.
Title from title page screen, viewed July 26, 2006. Dissertation Committee: M. Paul Holsinger (chair), Lawrence W. McBride, John B. Freed, Steven E. Kagle. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 225-239) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Books on the topic "Beaches in literature"

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Berne, Emma Carlson. Beaches. New York: PowerKids Press, 2008.

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Macken, JoAnn Early. Beaches. Pleasantville, NY: Gareth Stevens Pub., 2008.

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Dart, Iris Rainer. Beaches. London: Penguin, 1993.

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Dart, Iris Rainer. Beaches. New York: Perennial, 2004.

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Dart, Iris Rainer. Beaches. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.

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Dart, Iris Rainer. Beaches. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1985.

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Day, Trevor. Oceans and beaches. Chicago, Ill: Heinemann Library, 2011.

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Randall, Jory. My day at the beach. New York: PowerKids Press, 2010.

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Gregoire, Maryellen. At the beach. North Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2012.

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Benjamin, Tina. Let's visit the beach. New York: Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2016.

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Book chapters on the topic "Beaches in literature"

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Eckert, Martin. "Vorschlag einer Analysemethode die Formwillen beachtet." In Literatur und Kriminologie, 169–79. Herbolzheim: Centaurus Verlag & Media, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-86226-435-3_7.

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Fasold, Frowin, Alexander Gehrer, and Stefanie Klatt. "Basics in Beach Handball Refereeing, Organization, and Recommendations of Literature." In Beach Handball for Beginners, 155–71. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64566-6_7.

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Nadell, Martha Jane. "Alternative Facts, Alternative Genres: Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach." In American Literature Readings in the 21st Century, 113–38. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73858-7_5.

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Surco-Anacleto, Juan, and Michael Cabanillas-Carbonell. "Analysis of Indoor Localization Using Beacons for the Visually Impaired: A Systematic Literature Review." In Proceedings of Seventh International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, 339–48. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1607-6_29.

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Trenhaile, A. S. "Rock and Cohesive Clay Coasts." In Coastal Dynamics and Landforms, 265–89. Oxford University PressOxford, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198233534.003.0011.

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Abstract Rocks and cohesive clays form a high proportion of the world’s coasts, and even many sand and coarse elastic beaches are underlain by shore platforms and backed by marine cliffs. These coasts have been neglected in the contemporary processoriented coastal literature, where the emphasis has been on beaches and other coastal features that quickly respond to changing environmental conditions.

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Mghili, Bilal, Mohamed Analla, and Mustapha Aksissou. "Overview of Marine Plastic Pollution in the Moroccan Mediterranean." In Environmental Pollutants in the Mediterranean Sea: Recent Trends and Remediation Approaches, 68–84. BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/9789815179064123010006.

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Plastic debris has become the main component of marine litter in the Moroccan Mediterranean due to the massive consumption of plastic and poor plastic waste management. In Morocco, plastic pollution has been a subject of increasing environmental concern in the last few years. This literature review was conducted to collect current data on plastic pollution in the Moroccan Mediterranean, considering the presence of marine debris as well as macroplastics and microplastics in different compartments. Our study shows that, until now, very few studies have been carried out and there is a lack of information, especially on the prevalence of plastic debris in the water environment, sea floor, and aquatic animals. In general, plastic is the most predominant waste on the beaches of the Moroccan Mediterranean, always contributing to more than 50% of the total composition of the waste encountered. Based on the records, tourism, recreational activities, and fishing are one of the main sources of plastic accumulation in the Moroccan Mediterranean. This was due to a lack of awareness among beach users. Awareness and behavior change is key to minimizing plastic waste on Morocco's beaches and coasts. In addition, all aspects of waste management must be improved. The beaches of the Moroccan Mediterranean have also been contaminated by microplastics. A significant positive correlation was also observed between human population density and industrial activity on microplastic abundance. Microplastic has only been found in a few commercial fish species and sea turtles, but more work will be needed in the future.

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Erdoğan, Nevnihal. "Love in Symi-An Aegean Romance/ Kos-Symi Rhodes." In Architecture in Contemporary Literature, 175–81. BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/9789815165166123010023.

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Love in Symi is a nouvelle that flows in the background of the hopeless love between the “X” generation and the “Y” generation people, the heartsore love held captive by technology in an original architectural setting. The author is Hikmet Temel Aksu, a writer who has studied architecture. With its main story reflecting the emotions of the chivalry era, set in the Greek Dodecanese Islands of Kos, Symi, and Rhodes, Love in Symi occurs on a plateau with Mediterranean architecture as the background. The protagonist of the story is Elsa and the author himself. The work tells a bittersweet love story, as well as the architecture of the Greek islands, with a touristic feeling and journey. The journey starts from the island of Kos, across from Bodrum. The uniqueness of Hippocrates's living here, the island finds its place with beautiful beaches, monasteries built on high hills, gastronomic restaurants, and intense architectural descriptions. The second island, Symi, is considered the most striking in architecture and the most unique among other islands. It is one of the most beautiful examples of island architecture, with the settlement of the city on steep volcanic hills, its houses with white window pediments painted in orange and yellow on the outside, and its characteristic stone architecture. The island of Rhodes, the last island mentioned in the novel, immerses the reader in the atmosphere of the place with intense architectural depictions. Two or three of the giant cruise ships can simultaneously anchor in the port of Rhodes, which is surrounded by a medieval castle, and on the UNESCO cultural heritage list. Since it is one of the main attractions of such a busy tourism industry, the criticism regarding the brutal mistreatment of Rhodes's historical architecture is also notable in the nouvelle.

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Reckert, Stephen. "Golden Lamps In a Green Night." In Beyond Chrysanthemums, 66–103. Oxford University PressOxford, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198151654.003.0003.

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Abstract The jangadeiros of Bahia—well named ‘Bay of All Saints’ —light votive fires on the beaches to Yemanjá, the Yoruba goddess of the sea, before they set sail for the night’s fishing on their fragile rafts. But pre-technological attitudes and practices are not peculiar to the Third World, as the Midsummer Night bonfires1 along the banks of the Galician rías and on the rocky hillsides of Trás-os-Montes bear witness; even in our own century a substantial part of the population of north-western Iberia has continued to inhabit in imagination ‘a region of fiery dragons and apples of gold’ (as a historian of Portuguese literature called it) hardly less syncretic, if more discreetly camouflaged, than anything in north-eastern Brazil. And the corresponding part of the population of Andalusia, with its Gypsy and Moorish leavening, shares the same mythic or symbolic mode of apprehending and interpreting the natural world.

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"Stephen Beachy’s boneyard, the Martyrs Mirror, and Anabaptist Activism." In Queering Mennonite Literature, 77–88. Penn State University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/j.ctv14gp9tm.8.

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Richter, Virginia. "Salt Taste of the Sea." In Literature and the Senses, 493—C26S5. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192843777.003.0027.

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Abstract The beach intensifies multisensorial bodily perception, as it touches, stimulates, and invades the human body through various material channels. Literary texts record a ‘thick description’ of the sensory and emotional experience of, for example, swimming; and they explore the ambivalence of the beach, the persistence of conflicting patterns such as sensuous liberation and a dread of the deep. The two novels this chapter examines—Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Charles Simmons’s Salt Water—although separated by a century, address similar issues. Both are set at moments of social change, have liminal protagonists, and use littoral activities as conduits to sexual awakening, liberation, and self-knowledge. However, they also show that these positive developments are not viable outside the heterotopia of the beach. Drawing on littoral/oceanic studies and new materialism, this chapter focuses on the interplay between the material environment, the senses, and the emotional development of the novels’ protagonists.

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Conference papers on the topic "Beaches in literature"

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Cabezas-Rabadán, Carlos, Jaime Almonacid-Caballer, Josep E. Pardo-Pascual, and Jesús Soriano-González. "VARIABILIDAD DE LA LÍNEA DE COSTA A PARTIR DE IMÁGENES DE SATÉLITE Y SU RELACIÓN CON LA TEXTURA DEL SEDIMENTO." In 1st Congress in Geomatics Engineering. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/cigeo2017.2017.6628.

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Beaches are natural environments of great interest for our society. They go through remarkable changes run by key factors that are interconnected according to the literature. A better understanding of these parameters, such as sediment texture and shoreline variability, would be of a great interest for coastal monitoring and planning. Shorelines of all Landsat 8 (OLI) images available over the course of one year have been obtained for determining the variability that has occurred in different Valencian beaches. Likewise, the relation between shoreline variability and sediment texture has been evaluated, showing that beaches with higher variability over the year have smaller sediment texture, which is also related with gentle slopes, and vice versa. The methodology allows obtaining the shoreline variability, a key parameter of beach morphodynamics, in a semiautomatic way. The variability allows developing a gross estimate of beach texture.http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/CIGeo2017.2017.6628

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Stark, Nina, Brandon Quinn, Katerina Ziotopoulou, and Hugues Lantuit. "Geotechnical Investigation of Pore Pressure Behavior of Muddy Seafloor Sediments in an Arctic Permafrost Environment." In ASME 2015 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2015-41583.

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Herschel Island, Yukon, Canada, is made of ice-rich permafrost and is affected by high rates of coastal erosion, likely to increase with decreasing summer sea ice extent. During an interdisciplinary expedition to Herschel Island in July 2014, geotechnical investigations were carried out in shallow water environments of up to 20 m water depth and at different beaches. The free-fall penetrometer BlueDrop was deployed at 299 positions. Apart from obtaining vertical profiles of sediment strength and the pore pressure response upon impact, the pore pressure evolution over a period of one hour after deployment was investigated. The focus area for these tests was Pauline Cove, located at the south-eastern side of the island, being sheltered by a spit from the open Beaufort Sea and affected by a number of old and young retrogressive thaw slumps, delivering large amounts of mud. The sediment resistance profiles revealed up to three distinct layers of sediment strength, expressing different consolidation states, or possibly changes in sediment composition. This stratification was supported by the pore pressure results, including pore pressure evolution “on-the-flight” during penetrometer penetration as well as pore pressure evolution at maximum penetration depth with the penetrometer being at rest. The sediment surface layer 1 was characterized by a thickness of 5–20 cm depending on the respective location, low sediment resistance and predominantly hydrostatic pressure. It most likely has frequently been reworked by wave action, and exhibited similar geotechnical signatures as fluid mud. Layer 2 reached sediment depths of 30–60 cm, showed an increase in sediment resistance and distinct subhydrostatic pore pressures during penetration, while pore pressures increased in an asymptotic manner to suprahydrostatic (160–180% of hydrostatic pressure) over an observation period of 30–50 minutes. Based on comparison to other examples from the literature, it was hypothesized that layer 2 was composed of overconsolidated mud. Layer 3 featured a significant increase in sediment resistance as well as pore pressure during penetration. As soon as the probe came to rest, the pressure decreased significantly to subhydrostatic conditions, before swinging back to being suprahydrostatic and then slowly dissipating. A similar behavior has been associated to silty sands and high bulk densities. Here, it may suggest a change in sediment composition, likely influenced by coarser nearshore and beach sediments, representing also a denser sediment matrix. The pore pressure results will complement the geological and geotechnical characterization of the coastal zone of Hershel Island, and contribute to the investigation of erosion and deposition processes.

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Yoshio Maruyama, Gustavo, Amaury Antônio de Castro Junior, Anderson Corrêa de Lima, and Marcos Pinheiro Vilhanueva. "Tecnologias para Implementação de Laboratórios Remotos de Robótica: Revisão Sistemática da Literatura." In Computer on the Beach. Itajaí: Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14210/cotb.v13.p059-065.

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ABSTRACTThis paper presents a systematic literature review based on studiesthat approach the development or use of existing technologies andtools for the implementation of remote robotics laboratories aimedat education.We sought to answer technical and motivational questionsthat provide information that collaborate for the developmentand implementation of remote robotics laboratories in educationalinstitutions. The aspects studied include: architecture, user interface,robotic platforms, cameras, programming languages types andmotivation. The results discussed here will be used as basis for aresearch development, aiming at the implementation of a remoteand experimental robotics laboratory at the Mato Grosso do SulFederal Institute of Education, Science and Technology.

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Da Consolação Machado, Mônica, Yara Campos Barretto, and Lucila Ishitani. "Características de jogos digitais para o público feminino: uma revisão sistemática de literatura." In Computer on the Beach. Itajaí: Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14210/cotb.v13.p111-118.

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ABSTRACTThe growing market for electronic games reaches millions of peopleevery day. Although women represent approximately half ofusers in this sector, the gaming world is still seen predominantlyas male. This situation happens both in digital game design and incareers concerning game development. The gaming market slowlytakes women into account but still has a game design grounded onstereotyped gender characteristics. This work describes a SystematicLiterature Review (SLR) to identify characteristics of digitalgames suitable for female audiences, seek motivations for the girls´involvement in the field of Computing through digital games, andresearch information about games used for motivating women tobecome interested in Computing. We selected twenty-one relevantstudies related to the objective of thiswork. The results obtained canbe helpful for the development of new games focused on women,indirectly contributing to the increased interest of the female publicin the field of Computing.

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Rafael de Oliveira Rodrigues, Bruno, and Fernando Silva Parreiras. "Predicting Bug-Fixing Time with Machine Learning - A Collaborative Filtering Approach." In Computer on the Beach. Itajaí: Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14210/cotb.v13.p021-028.

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ABSTRACTPredicting bug-fixing time helps software managers and teams prioritizetasks, allocations and costs in software projects. In literature,machine learning (ML) models have been proposed to predict bugfixingtime. One of features highlighted by studies is the reporter(the person who open the bug) has positive influence in the timeto resolve a bug. In this way, this paper answers the following researchquestion: How does a collaborative filtering approach performin predicting bug-fixing time compared to the supervised machinelearning approaches? In order to answer this question we performedan experiment using collaborative filtering approach to recommendthe bugs that are fast to be resolved in two open software projects.We compare our proposed approach with the ML approach relatedto the literature. As a result, the collaborative filtering approachoutperforms the supervised ML achieving an F-measure of 74%while the supervised ML achieved 66%. The collaborative filteringapproach showed to be a new perspective to predict bug-fixing timein software projects focusing the prediction on the reporter.

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Maria da Rocha Fernandes, Anita, and Andrei Hodecker. "Um Modelo de Rede Neural Convolucional para Classificação de Peças de Vestuário." In Computer on the Beach. Itajaí: Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14210/cotb.v11n1.p022-024.

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An algorithm capable of identifying clothing parts can be very useful for identifying a person´s social identity, among other applications. Convolutional neural networks models have been shown to be efficient in the task of image classification. This paper explores and analyzes models of convolutional neural networks in the task of classifying clothing parts by images. The models presented in this paper showed higher accuracy compared to non-convolutional models of the literature.

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Da Silva de Paula, Amanda, Cauã Fabrício Auler, Sabrina Hahn Melo, and Vinicius Hartmann Ferreira. "Uma Revisão Sistemática Sobre o Uso de Jogos para Fomentar a Participação de Meninas na Área de Computação: Uma Análise do Women in Information Technology (WIT)." In Computer on the Beach. Itajaí: Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.14210/cotb.v15.p001-006.

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ABSTRACTThe presence of women in the field of computing is low due to alack of representation and appreciation, resulting in little interest inpursuing careers in these fields. However, the use of games tostimulate girls' interest in computing has shown positive results.This article presents the findings of a Systematic Literature Reviewfocused on works from Women in Information Technology.Successful initiatives were identified that used games to spark girls'interest in computing. However, the community's interest has notshown growth over the years.

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Henrique Marquetti Rondon, Luiz, and Ricardo Cherobin. "Examinando os Tipos de Feedbacks no Design de Jogos Digitais." In Computer on the Beach. Itajaí: Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14210/cotb.v13.p081-088.

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ABSTRACTFeedback is intrinsic to games. However, its versatility, inside or outside game design, moved its definitions, to intertwining and, at times, to a clear complexity. Thus, the purpose of this work was to unravel the notions of the multifaceted feedback, based mainly on qualified literature in the area. In view of a possible dissemination of feedback techniques in the horizon of the development of digital games, and, to a lesser extent, seeks to redirect the discussion of feedback concepts to the Portuguese language.

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Nau, Jonathan, Aluizio Haendchen Filho, and Rudimar Luís Scaranto Dazzi. "Uma Abordagem para Mineração de Argumentos em Redações do Português Brasileiro." In Computer on the Beach. Itajaí: Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14210/cotb.v11n1.p087-088.

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Argument mining consists of extracting the argumentative structure of a text. The challenge in finding the argumentative structure lies in: identifying the components of the argument and the relationships that occur between them. Approaches that propose to solve both challenges of argument mining together are known as end-to-end methods. In the literature, some papers were found that perform argument mining in essays, but no papers were found for Brazilian Portuguese. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an end-to-end approach for argument mining of Brazilian Portuguese essays in the ENEM model.

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Renkavieski, Christopher, and Rafael Stubs Parpinelli. "L-SHADE with Alternative Population Size Reduction for Unconstrained Continuous Optimization." In Computer on the Beach. Itajaí: Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14210/cotb.v11n1.p351-358.

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Differential Evolution (DE) is a powerful and versatile algorithmfor numerical optimization, but one of its downsides is its numberof parameters that need to be tuned. Multiple techniques have beenproposed to self-adapt DE’s parameters, with L-SHADE being oneof the most well established in the literature. This work presentsthe A-SHADE algorithm, which modifies the population size reductionschema of L-SHADE, and also EB-A-SHADE, which applies amutation strategy hybridization framework to A-SHADE. Thesealgorithms are applied to the CEC2013 benchmark set with 100dimensions, and it’s shown that A-SHADE and EB-A-SHADE canachieve competitive results.

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Reports on the topic "Beaches in literature"

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Reine, Kevin. A literature review of beach nourishment impacts on marine turtles. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), March 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/43829.

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This Technical Report was developed by the U. S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center-Environmental Laboratory (ERDC-EL), to summarize the known impacts to nesting sea turtles along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts resulting from beach nourishment. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is responsible for maintaining the nation’s infrastructure to include ports and harbors through dredging of Federal navigation channels as well as shoreline stabilization. Shoreline stabilization through beach nourishment activities can provide opportunities for reductions in storm surge, flood control, and provide opportunities for residential growth, recreational activities, and coastal habitat restoration (Guilfoyle et al. 2019). Beach nourishment is an effective method for protection and enhancement of coastal development projects but may have detrimental impacts on marine life (e.g., nesting sea turtles and shorebirds). The objective of this Technical Report is to examine all elements of the beach nourishment process to include, active beach construction, entrainment of marine turtles in hopper dredges, beach protection and hard structures, beach profile features, compaction and shear resistance, artificial lighting, marine turtle nest relocation, and nesting habitat factors. Recommendations for mitigating and minimizing these impacts are provided.

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Ginis, Isaac, Deborah Crowley, Peter Stempel, and Amanda Babson. The impact of sea level rise during nor?easters in New England: Acadia National Park, Boston Harbor Islands, Boston National Historical Park, and Cape Cod National Seashore. National Park Service, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/2304306.

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This study examines the potential impact of sea level rise (SLR) caused by climate change on the effects of extratropical cyclones, also known as nor?easters, in four New England coastal parks: Acadia National Park (ACAD), Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area (BOHA), Boston National Historical Park (BOST) and Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO). A multi-method approach is employed, including a literature review, observational data analysis, coupled hydrodynamic-wave numerical modeling, 3D visualizations, and communication of findings. The literature review examines previous studies of nor?easters and associated storm surges in New England and SLR projections across the study domain due to climate change. The observational data analysis evaluates the characteristics of nor?easters and their effects, providing a basis for validating the model. Numerical modeling is performed using the Advanced Circulation (ADCIRC) model, coupled with the Simulating Waves in the Nearshore (SWAN) model to simulate storm surges and waves. The model was validated against available observations and demonstrated its ability to simulate water levels, inland inundation, and wave heights in the study area with high accuracy. The validated model was used to simulate three powerful nor?easters (April 2007, January 2018, and March 2018) and each storm was simulated for three sea levels, (1) a baseline mean sea level representative of the year 2020, as well as with a (2) 1 ft of SLR and (3) 1 m of SLR. Analysis of the model output was used to assess the vulnerability of the parks to nor?easters by examining peak impacts in the park areas. Additional simulations were conducted to evaluate the role of waves in predicting peak water levels and the impact of inlet configurations on storm surges within coastal embayments behind the barrier beach systems in the southern Cape Cod region. The project developed maps, three-dimensional visualizations, and an interpretive film to assist the parks in planning for resource management, maintenance, emergency management, visitor access, safety, education, and outreach. These tools provide a better understanding of the potential impacts of nor?easters and SLR and enable the parks to better prepare for future storms.

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