{"id":136893,"date":"2019-02-13T11:23:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T16:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?p=136893"},"modified":"2019-10-04T01:05:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T05:05:56","slug":"test-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/walsh-lab-news\/test-post-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NSF Award to Study Seafloor Dynamics from Hurricane"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>COASTL Receives NSF RAPID to Study Florence&#8217;s Impact on the Seafloor<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_137469\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-137469\" style=\"width: 603px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-137469 \" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/erosion_carteret-500x588.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/erosion_carteret-500x588.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/erosion_carteret-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/erosion_carteret-364x428.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/erosion_carteret.jpg 574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-137469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many communities in central-to-southern NC suffered beach and dune erosion from Hurricane Florence. Figure from Greg Rudolph with the Carteret Count Shore Protection Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The North Carolina coast was hit hard by strong winds, powerful waves and flooding from Hurricane Florence.&nbsp; As a result, many beach communities experience substantial beach and dune erosion, such along Bogue Banks (pictured).&nbsp; &nbsp;Offshore sand sources are anticipated to be used in the future to renourish impacted areas as funding allows.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This National Science Foundation (NSF) RAPID grant will support immediate multibeam and seismic-reflection data collection to understand how waves and currents affected the offshore seabed.&nbsp; Specfically, work will focus on a sand borrow source to determine recent dynamics.&nbsp; &nbsp;Data collection will be spearheaded by Geodynamics, LLC. in Morehead City, and Walsh from COASTL will work with Geodynamics and partners at East Carolina University in the analysis.&nbsp; Data will be compared to pre-hurricane data to help understand how storms impact borrow areas as well as how dredged zones may be naturally reworked.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COASTL Receives NSF RAPID to Study Florence&#8217;s Impact on the Seafloor The North Carolina coast was hit hard by strong winds, powerful waves and flooding from Hurricane Florence.&nbsp; As a result, many beach communities experience substantial beach and dune erosion, such along Bogue Banks (pictured).&nbsp; &nbsp;Offshore sand sources are anticipated to be used in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1726,"featured_media":137466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walsh-lab-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136893"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151374,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136893\/revisions\/151374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}