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Goals and Objectives

Goals

  • You will develop an understanding of the mechanics of coastal erosion, and develop the fundamental geospatial and quantitative skills and concepts needed to assess coastal erosion rates.
  • You will learn about various classical coastal engineering methods for mitigating coastal hazard risks and be introduced to new alternate options for mitigating coastal hazard risks.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

  • develop understanding of coastal erosion through exposure to erosion mechanics, and how the interruption of sediment transport is related to downdrift erosion;
  • determine erosion rates along a coastline from sequential Google Earth images;
  • describe the classical methods of armoring shorelines or mitigating erosion and state their disadvantages;
  • explain and contrast innovative approaches to coastal hazard mitigation and describe some alternatives and where they are used presently;
  • differentiate between soft versus hard mitigation strategies and state problems associated with each.

Lesson 7 Roadmap

Lesson 7 Roadmap
AssignmentLocation
To Read
  • For this module, you will need to read all of the required materials here on the course site.
  • In addition you should also read the following websites and make sure you are familiar with the content so you can complete the assignments and the active learning projects.

Conscience website (link is external): 1. Interplay of sediment, wind and water 2. The coastal cell as a unifying concept

Click title of the reading to link to the material.
To Do

BLENDED CLASS

  • Summative Assessment: Protection of Ocean Beach
  • Complete Activate Your Leaning online. There is nothing to submit.
  • Submit Formative and Summative Assessments in attached word documents.
To Do

ONLINE ONLY CLASS

  • Summative Assessment: Protection of Ocean Beach
  • Complete Activate Your Leaning online. There is nothing to submit.
  • Submit Summative Assessment using the Module 7 Lab Assessment.

These materials are part of a collection of classroom-tested modules and courses developed by InTeGrate. The materials engage students in understanding the earth system as it intertwines with key societal issues. The collection is freely available and ready to be adapted by undergraduate educators across a range of courses including: general education or majors courses in Earth-focused disciplines such as geoscience or environmental science, social science, engineering, and other sciences, as well as courses for interdisciplinary programs.
Explore the Collection »