State of Coastal and Marine Systems

Videos: Sylvia Earle: How to protect the oceans (TED Prize winner!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=43DuLcBFxoY Dr. Peter Burbridge & Integrated Coastal Zone Management: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=g3uD-m6DPcc Using the resources provided and any additional sources you may need answer the following: 1. Reading the Coast: Remember Carmen San Diego? Where is this picture from? What details from the picture give you […]

Coastal New Orleans

The original City of New Orleans is founded on naturally occurring river levees on the Mississippi River in the lower delta. It was surrounded by lower swampy delta land in a hot subtropical climate and would seem to be a foolish place to put a city. And yet history indicates that the have been compelling […]