Orrin H Pilkey: 10 books
Useless Arithmetic
Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Noted coastal geologist Orrin Pilkey and environmental scientist Linda Pilkey-Jarvis show that the quantitative mathematical models policy makers and government administrators use to form environmental policies are seriously flawed. Based on unrealistic and sometimes false assumptions, these models...
Global Climate Change
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
An internationally recognized expert on the geology of barrier islands, Orrin H. Pilkey is one of the rare academics who engages in public advocacy about science-related issues. He has written dozens of books and articles explaining coastal processes to lay readers, and he is a frequent and outspoken...
by Orrin H. Pilkey, Rob Young
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
On Shishmaref Island in Alaska, homes are being washed into the sea. In the South Pacific, small island nations face annihilation by encroaching waters. In coastal Louisiana, an area the size of a football field disappears every day. For these communities, sea level rise isn’t a distant, abstract...
by J. Andrew G. Cooper, Orrin H. Pilkey
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
The Last Beach is an urgent call to save the world's beaches while there is still time. The geologists Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper sound the alarm in this frank assessment of our current relationship with beaches and their grim future if we do not change the way we understand and treat...
The Beaches Are Moving
The Drowning of America's Shoreline
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 1984
Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you—all thrown up in a frantic defense against the natural system. The romantic desire to live on the seashore is in doomed...
How to Read a North Carolina Beach
Bubble Holes, Barking Sands, and Rippled Runnels
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Take a walk on the beach with three coastal experts who reveal the secrets and the science of the North Carolina shoreline. What makes sea foam? What are those tiny sand volcanoes along the waterline? You'll find the answers to these questions and dozens more in this comprehensive field guide to the...
Retreat from a Rising Sea
Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Melting ice sheets and warming oceans are causing the seas to rise. By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevations along coasts will be forced to retreat to higher and safer ground. Because of sea-level rise, major storms will inundate areas farther inland and...
Lessons from the Sand
Family-Friendly Science Activities You Can Do on a Carolina Beach
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Ever wonder where sand comes from? Or why shells are colored differently? Or how to estimate the size of a wave? Featuring more than forty fun hands-on activities for families with children, Lessons from the Sandreveals the science behind the amazing natural wonders found on the beaches of North Carolina...
Living with Florida’s Atlantic Beaches
Coastal Hazards from Amelia Island to Key West
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
From Amelia Island just south of Georgia to Key West's southern tip, beaches are one of Florida's greatest assets. Yet these beaches are in danger: rapid structural development on a highly erodible coast make them vulnerable to some of nature's greatest storms. The same development that has been driven...
The World's Beaches
A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Take this book to the beach; it will open up a whole new world. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps, and graphics, it explores one of the planet’s most dynamic environments—from tourist beaches to Arctic beaches strewn with ice chunks to steaming hot tropical shores. The World’s...