Running Head:LONG BEACH BREAKWATER PROJECT... Long Beach Breakwater Project Needs To Move Forward Joel Goff South University Week-5 Assignment 1 Discussion Question 1 Composition I | ENG1100 S05 Professor: J. Chagala LONG BEACH BREAKWATER PROJECT... 2 Long Beach Breakwater Project Needs To Move Forward How important is the quality of the ocean water with regard to marine life and humankind? The answer is simple, it is of vital importance to life both on and off shore. In Long Beach, California at San Pedro Bay there exists the largest container port in the USA. (Sharpsteen, 2010 p. 12,13) ) This busy port, the cargo, and the peripheral utility ships that use it, create pollution from engine exhaust and waste. Long Beach and
Year 10 Geography Assessment Task By Adam Gergich A Spatial Perspective This geographical issues being focussed on are the coastal processes taking place on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, mainly on the 3 km stretch of beach from Dee Why to Narrabeen, as well as the management of these processes. These beaches are slowly deteriorating, and without the right treatment for these problems, we could lose the beaches all together. These issues spans across a number of beaches, including Dee Why, Long Reef, Collaroy, and the southern part of Narrabeen. Storm damage and coastal erosion has been a severe problem for decades all along this stretch of land, especially on Collaroy Beach. This is usually caused by natural process operating along the
We used the stopwatch to find the time taken from one end to the other end. The last equipment we used for this investigation was the measuring tape, to find 10 metres of a distance in the beach. Two people from our team were holding the edges of the measuring tape; one person was holding the stopwatch, one person was holding the bottle (ready to release the bottle into the sea) and the last person was holding the compass to find which direction the fetch is coming
Outline how the 4 spheres interact at Cronulla to create this coastal environment. Examine how people have impacted on these processes and evaluate the effectiveness of the management of the area. Cronulla is located 20km south of the Sydney CBD. It reaches from the Kurnell peninsula in the north to Port Hacking and the Royal National Park in the south. Cronulla consists of a built environment and a biophysical environment.
Now long shore, or planform, spreading involves the redistribution of the sediment from the project area to the adjacent beaches (Elko, par.4). The waves soon smooth the new sediment that has been brought in out and drives long shore transport. As a number of Florida beaches are being restored or going under a nourishment project the vision of a natural beach and beach influenced by nourishment is becoming more and more unclear (Elko, par.3). These projects are monitored by beach surveys that are done frequently. Sites are chosen to have cameras put on top of buildings located near the beaches so that an accurate survey could be done.
The tide is high Happisburgh Coastal erosion happisburugh Coastal erosion is when the water and/or wind carry out sediments of land; sediment is rocks, dirt and earth. It happens mostly on beaches and shorelines because they had no vegetation or plants to be a natural protection against the water. People believe that it is just the water that erodes the coast, but both the water and wind are main factors that constantly change the boundary between the land and water. The beach can be affected severely or lightly depending on the lunar tides and the difference in water density. Coastal erosion in Happisburgh Happisburgh is to the east of England and in 2001 had a population of 1,372 in 607 households.
138). The oil sands mining operations have had an increasingly devastating effect on the natural landscape surrounding the Athabasca river, Fort McMurray and Fort Chipewyan. One notable human impact is the increased potential for developing cancers. Aboriginal leaders have identified communities with an increase in deaths due to illnesses and cancers “associated with petroleum waste and by-products” (Wong, 2013, p. 134). According to a study done by Tenenbaum (2009, p. 153) there is an increase in the number of blood and lymphatic, biliary tract, and soft tissue cancers.
Exam Question – Referring to a stretch of coast, explain the factors that have led to this coast suffering from erosion (10 marks) Many factors have led to erosion on the Holderness coast, in North East England. These may have been processes that have been taking a while, or something that occurs suddenly. There are three main reasons for the rapidly eroding coastline at Holderness; the geology, the fetch and longshore drift and beach material. The Holderness Coast is mainly two rock types; chalk and boulder clay. Chalk is fairly resistant and at places like Flamborough Head, it produces features such as cliffs, caves, arches and stacks.
My independent variable is the green crab, which I added to the tide pool off the Washington State coast. My dependent variable was the coral weed because it is affected by the green crab. I started my experiment at 0 crabs/sq. ft. I replicated this step 5 times (resetting the simulation between each replication) and measured the population of the green grab and the coral weed at the end of each repetition.
Oceans play a vital role when it comes to climate regulation, but there has been an escalating change in the sea temperature over the last few decades which contributed to sea levels rising. Oceans act as carbon dioxide main stores and a proportion of the carbon uptakes are exported along the ocean carbon pumps. An increase in the sea’s temperature and ocean currents may lead to a decrease in the uptake of Carbon dioxide by oceans. The ocean chemistry has already been affected as we are facing ocean acidification- which impacts species such as corals and calcareous plankton, aquatic and land ecosystems and the biogeochemical cycles. 1.10) What is the effect of climate change on biodiversity in the oceans and on land?