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Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment

2005

Dunes

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Chesapeake Bay Dune Systems: Monitoring, Donna A. Milligan, C. Scott Hardaway Jr., George R. Thomas, Lyle M. Varnell, Thomas A. Barnard, William G. Reay, Travis R. Comer, Christine A. Wilcox May 2005

Chesapeake Bay Dune Systems: Monitoring, Donna A. Milligan, C. Scott Hardaway Jr., George R. Thomas, Lyle M. Varnell, Thomas A. Barnard, William G. Reay, Travis R. Comer, Christine A. Wilcox

Reports

This project is aimed at developing an understanding of detailed beach and dune change. During the course of this monitoring, Hurricane Isabel impacted the coastal plain of Virginia and significantly altered almost all Bay shorelines to one degree or another in September 2003. This is particularly true of shorelines facing north, east, and south since the winds shifted as the storm passed. This event provided an opportunity to measure the changes to natural dune systems around the Bay due to the storm as well as their recovery after the event.