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Dario Civile, Luca Baradello, Flavio Accaino, Massimo Zecchin, Emanuele Lodolo, Giulia Matilde Ferrante, Nora Markezic, Valentina Volpi and Mihai Burca
The Sciacca basin extends in the southwestern part of Sicily and hosts an important geothermal field (the Sciacca Geothermal Field) characterized by hot springs containing mantle gasses. Newly acquired high-resolution seismic profiles (Boomer data) integ...
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Sanghwan Heo, Weoncheol Koo and Moo-Hyun Kim
A Wavestar-type Wave Energy Converter (WEC) on an elastic foundation structure was investigated using an author-developed coupled dynamic analysis computer program. The program included an elastic foundation structure composed of beam elements, a multi-b...
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Yao-Zhao Zhong, Hwa Chien, Meng-Yu Lin, Anna Wargula and Jia-Lin Chen
The physical processes governing coastal exchange between the surf zone, the inner shelf, and the open ocean is critical for estimating mass exchange and its impact on ecological processes. The present study combined field measurements and theoretical ap...
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Chi Zhang and Allan R. Magee
This paper investigates the effectiveness of floating breakwaters consisting of two barges (L-shape), three barges (U-shape), four barges (barge frame), and conventional single floating breakwater. The floating breakwaters of different spatial layouts ha...
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Nashwan Matheen, Mitchell D. Harley, Ian L. Turner, Kristen D. Splinter, Joshua A. Simmons and Mandi C. Thran
There is an increasing interest in the broad-scale implementation of coastal erosion early warning systems (EWS) with the goal of enhancing community preparedness to extreme coastal storm wave events. These emerging systems typically rely on process-base...
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Bárbara F. V. Vieira, José L. S. Pinho, Joaquim A. O. Barros and José S. Antunes do Carmo
Coastal areas accommodate a great part of large metropolises as they support a great amount of economic and leisure activities. The attraction of people to coastal zones is contributing to an intense and continuous urbanization of these areas, while the ...
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Clément Bouvier, Bruno Castelle and Yann Balouin
Coastal defense strategies based on structures are increasingly unpopular as they are costly, leave lasting scars on the landscape, and sometimes have limited effectiveness or even adverse impacts. While a clear improvement concerning aesthetic considera...
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Annika O?Dea, Katherine L. Brodie and Preston Hartzell
This paper details the collection, geo-referencing, and data processing algorithms for a fully-automated, permanently deployed terrestrial lidar system for coastal monitoring. The lidar is fixed on a 4-m structure located on a shore-backing dune in Duck,...
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Fernando Marques
Mass movements of different types and sizes are the main processes of sea cliff evolution, being a considerable natural hazard, the assessment of which is a relevant issue in terms of human loss prevention and land use regulations. To predict the occurre...
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Daniel W. Amato, Celia M. Smith and Thomas K. Duarte
On many tropical reefs, submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) provides a substantial and often overlooked nutrient source to nearshore ecosystems, yet little is known about the impacts of SGD on the biology of reef organisms. To address this, the physiol...
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