Student Jake Harrington uses real-time kinematic global positioning system for a beach survey. (Image credit: J.P. Walsh, URI)
The University of Rhode Island has made one of the world’s oldest and continuous beach survey efforts available online via Rhode Island Beach Dynamics Over Decades, a new public website.
Since 1962, about four dozen students and several scientists from the URI Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO), the URI Environmental Data Center, the URI Department of Geosciences, and Eastern Connecticut State University have monitored the shorelines of eight Rhode Island beaches, collecting measurements and images that reveal short- and long-term changes and the impact of severe storms…