Morocco White Paper
Mining of Coastal Sand: A Critical Environmental and Economic Problem for Morocco (PDF)
Coastal Hazards White Paper
Coastal Hazards White Paper (PDF)
An expert panel was convened in July 2007 to discuss the state-of-the-art of assessing and mapping coastal hazards. The panel consisted of 20 coastal scientists and engineers from academia, the public sector, and the private sector. The goal of the meeting was to build a cross-disciplinary, consensus slate of recommendations for how coastal storm hazards should be quantified and mapped. The panel examined only the scientific aspects of our current understanding of coastal hazard assessment, and did not address issues of planning, risk assessment, or coastal management. The workshop focused on the impacts of tropical storms on the southeastern coast of the United States. Participants developed recommendations to improve the accuracy and utility of coastal hazards mapping and to guide future data collection efforts to improve the accuracy of current (and future) methods. The First Cullowhee Coastal Conference aimed to identify areas of consensus and discordance among practitioners of coastal storm hazard assessment and hazard mapping. Recommendations were sought regarding the types of data and techniques needed to fill the gap in our present understanding of coastal storm response to landfalling tropical cyclones in the southeastern U.S.