Coastlines have traditionally been engineered to maintain structural stability and to protect
property from storm‐related damage, but their ability to endure will be challenged over the …

An effort has been made to improve quantitative understanding of beach morphology and
stone structural damage progression and to develop a simple and robust model that is …

Coastal dunes are often the first and only line of physical defense for communities subjected
to damaging storms and waves. Planting vegetation on them has been proposed as one …

Follet's Island (FI) is a sediment-starved barrier island located on the Upper Texas Coast; a
stretch of coastline along the Gulf of Mexico that experiences on average four hurricanes …

Wave-induced overwash of sand dunes may cause rapid profile changes and possible dune
destruction, thus increasing the flood risk landward of dunes. Accurate modeling of the wave …

The majority of the world shoreline is experiencing some form of erosion, which will become
more serious if the mean sea level rise accelerates because of the greenhouse effect. The …

Sand dunes are natural features providing protection to coastal communities against waves
from extreme events such as hurricanes. In this study, the non-hydrostatic XBeach model …

Waves and water level setup during storms can create overwashing flows across barrier
islands. Overwashing flows can cause erosion, barrier breaching, and inlet formation, but …

Overwash is an important process that controls short-term barrier dynamics, as well as long-
term barrier migration, but this process is difficult to study in the field due to its rare …

As scientific understanding of barrier morphodynamics has improved, so has the ability to
reproduce observed phenomena and predict future barrier states using mathematical …