Hurricanes and Hurricane Isabel
Dissecting and Classifying the Impacts of
Historic Hurricanes on Estuarine Systems

Michael S. Kearney, Department of Geography, University of Maryland;
J. Court Stevenson, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Slide 1:  Hurricane Isabel was a "wee" wakeup call.  It's been decades since a hurricane made landfall in the immediate vicinity of the Bay, and then continue to move northward parallel to the main stem.  In this talk, I'm going to discuss what Isabel can teach us about coastal change and coastal vulnerability in a century that may see a global rise in sea level that has occurred not for at least a millennium, may be several thousand years if it is sustained.

 


 
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