A groin at Seven Mile Island, New Jersey traps sand and contributes to widening of the barrier beach. This illustrates how human modification and wave processes shape the beach. (Credit: Emily Wei, USGS. Public domain.)
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SPCMSC Scientists to Investigate Geology of Pinellas County, Florida Barrier Islands Release Date:
February 4, 2021
SPCMSC geologists Daniel Ciarletta, Julie Bernier, and Nancy DeWitt will be collecting field data from the barrier islands of Pinellas County, Florida, to learn about their past evolution beginning in mid to late February.
Mendenhall postdoctoral fellow Daniel Ciarletta and geologist Julie Bernier perform field reconnaissance at Caladesi Island, along the Gulf coast of central Florida. The scientists are refining a plan to sample and survey the island using sediment vibracores and ground-penetrating radar. (Credit: Hunter Wilcox, USGS. Public domain.)
The barrier islands of the Pinellas County coast are among the most dynamic in the world, providing an ideal natural laboratory to study how changes in sediment availability and sea-level rise impact island morphology on the scale of decades to centuries. As part of his Mendenhall fellowship, SPCMSC Researc