The northern shore of Washington's Olympic Peninsula has a saltwater setting without the pounding surf of open ocean to the west. The Strait of Juan de Fuca, the busy shipping channel for Puget Sound ...

Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 50: THE INTERNATIONAL COASTAL SYMPOSIUM (ICS 2007) (2007), pp. 1092-1096 (5 pages) Dune systems comprise about 60% of the Portuguese coast but they are best ...

The sand spit straddling the Bridgeport and Fairfield line has remained largely unchanged since the 1600s, serving as a protective barrier for Ash Creek, the sensitive tidal ecosystems there and now ...

Despite rising sea levels and increasing hurricane threats, developers have sought for more than two decades to build an exclusive resort community on a barren sand spit south of Charleston. But each ...

Fairfield and Bridgeport have teamed up to preserve the sand spit straddling the town line in an effort to further protect Ash Creek’s tidal estuary and the homes that surround it. The municipalities ...