In the 1920s, Los Angeles officials built miles of sandy beaches to attract tourists to their city. A century later, ...

Our destination was a cluster of rustic dune shacks strung along Provincetown and Truro’s so-called “backshore,” arguably the wildest, remotest part of Cape Cod National Seashore’s 40 miles of ...

Foredunes develop at the rear of the backshore environments (landward of the active beach) and generally comprise shore-parallel, convex, symmetrical to asymmetrical dune ridges. The morphology of ...

In general, sediment is transported landward via wave motion and swash to the foreshore, beachface, and backshore environments during periods of beach accretion. During low tides this sediment ...

Marconi Beach is still reachable by foot along the backshore, but it would be a considerable walk. The nearest beach access points with parking lots for such a journey would be Maguire Landing at ...

Unlike hard armouring –– such as bulkheads and seawalls –– Green Shores design allows for the continuation of natural ...

Department of Aquaculture, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor-West Java, 16680, Indonesia Department of Aquaculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Fisheries and ...