I’m sure you’ve heard this many times before… “glaciers are melting and sea level is rising”. At first glance, this is a simple concept that many people have already become tired of hearing about. But allow me to add a bit more intrigue; the intricacies of how sea-level rise is experienced differently around the world… Continue reading A Local Perspective on Sea-Level Change
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The Levee Dilemma
Levees, those wonderful walls that protect us and our land from destructive floods, come with a dark little secret – they protect us today but doom us tomorrow. Levees are walls that run along the shoreline of a body of water and can be either natural or man-made. Levees can naturally form by sediment settling… Continue reading The Levee Dilemma