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Conference Topics

CARBONATE BEACHES 2000 conference topics:
  • abrasion rates — laboratory and prototype
  • aeolian transport rates
  • applications of "dean number" in hydrodynamic calculations
  • artificial beach sands
  • beach composition and age
  • beach fill placement
  • beach fill specifications
  • beach shape measurement
  • beach/dune stabilizing vegetation and techniques
  • calculation and/or measurement of grain size
  • cementing of carbonate sand
  • commercial uses
  • construction solutions
  • dredging
  • economic geography
  • economic value
  • evolution and cycling of beaches
  • exploration techniques and programs
  • fall velocity
  • formation of beach rock
  • geologic processes
  • health of calcium carbonate ecosystems
  • hydrodynamics
  • impact of turbidity, temperature, wave action
  • limit of offshore movement
  • liquefaction/settlement
  • losses
  • management
  • models for sand transport including "pocket beaches"
  • monitoring during construction of beach fills
  • monitoring of shoreline and beach changes
  • origin of sediment
  • oxygen levels on formation
  • petrographic techniques
  • petrology
  • rates and factors affecting production of sediments
  • recreation uses
  • regional beach compositions
  • remote surveying methods
  • research needs
  • sand mining history
  • sand resources
  • sea level change and evolution
  • seasonal beach profiles
  • "SHOALS" and other remote survey techniques
  • storm and hurricane effects
  • surveying methods
  • tracer studies
  • tractability
  • underwater inspection
  • worldwide distribution
 
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