Coming to Pass
Coming to Pass

Author: Susan Cerulean

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0820347655

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"Ten years ago, Sue Cerulean realized the coastlines of her childhood along the New Jersey shore and of her adult years (a little-developed necklace of Gulf islands in Florida) were beginning to shift into the sea. She began to chronicle the story of "her" coastal areas as they are now, as they once were, and how they might be as Earth's oceans rise. Cerulean and her husband, oceanographer Jeff Chanton, have taken many field trips in various parts of these coastal areas"--

Florida Assessment of Coastal Trends (1997)
Florida Assessment of Coastal Trends (1997)

Author: Gilbert T. Bergquist

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1999-02

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780788176562

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The first scheduled update and revision of the original environmental indicator system produced in 1995. It provides a comprehensive perspective of the important environmental, growth management, economic, and social values associated with the coast. It provides a means of evaluating Florida's progress in protecting its coastal areas; a basis for making strategic decisions about programs and financial resources; and information about coastal issues and problems to other decision-makers and the general public. Includes: updating the data in the indicators; deleting indicators with poor or nonexistent data sources; and adding new indicators.

Estuarine Ecology
Estuarine Ecology

Author: John W. Day, Jr.

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-11-19

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 0471755672

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Estuaries are among the most biologically productive ecosystems on the planet--critical to the life cycles of fish, other aquatic animals, and the creatures which feed on them. Estuarine Ecology, Second Edition, covers the physical and chemical aspects of estuaries, the biology and ecology of key organisms, the flow of organic matter through estuaries, and human interactions, such as the environmental impact of fisheries on estuaries and the effects of global climate change on these important ecosystems. Authored by a team of world experts from the estuarine science community, this long-awaited, full-color edition includes new chapters covering phytoplankton, seagrasses, coastal marshes, mangroves, benthic algae, Integrated Coastal Zone Management techniques, and the effects of global climate change. It also features an entriely new section on estuarine ecosystem processes, trophic webs, ecosystem metabolism, and the interactions between estuaries and other ecosystems such as wetlands and marshes

Living with Florida's Atlantic Beaches
Living with Florida's Atlantic Beaches

Author: David M. Bush

Publisher: Living with the Shore

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13:

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A call to live with the coast, as opposed to living at the coast; unless Florida coastal communities conserve beaches and mitigate storm impacts, the future of the beach-based economy is in question.