Morehead
I drove to Morehead City yesterday to meet with my advisor Rick, and find a place to live. So far no luck on finding a place, and I'm staying in the bunkhouse.
Rick and I talked a good bit about what would be a good research area for me, and it looks like I may work on storm surge, and in particular the effects of wetland vegetation on it. We have computer models that can predict storm surge fairly well, but there are indications that they don't get wetland effects right. It's known that wetlands act as buffers against storm surge, but the statistics out there in the media (e.g. that 2.7 miles of marsh reduce storm surge by one foot) are more or less rectally produced.
If this winds up being my dissertation work, it'll sort of be cool. My very first day of graduate school, August 29, was the day the levee broke in New Orleans. The wetlands around New Orleans had been largely destroyed by development.
posted by MarkCi @ 9:18 AM
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Actually it doesn't really mean of hill of beans to me why subsidence is happening, or why the wetlands are disappearing. That's somebody else's problem. I just want to know how the presence of vegetation affects storm surge.
(And the first link you provided does in fact list of several factors related to development. I didn't read through it, though, since it doesn't contain any actual science. The second link I couldn't get to).
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