Berm, Dune, and Bluff Erosion
Oral
Mahsa Arabi, MS
Graduate Student
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Ali Khosravi, Aff.M.ASCE
Sharif University of Technology
Ali Farhadzadeh, PhD, PE, CFM
Assistant Professor
Stony Brook University, The State University of New York
Climate change and sea level rise are anticipated to accelerate coastal erosion, a major societal issue during the past half-century .While important progress has been made in predicting sandy beach responses to various ocean climates, a similar progress has not been made for coastal bluffs. Coastal bluff recession is a natural process that can become a hazard when it endangers buildings and developed properties .To understand the mechanism of erosion in a predominantly sand coastal bluff, a series of laboratory experiments are conducted in a wave flume at Coastal and Hydraulic Engineering Research Laboratory at Stony Brook University.