Case Studies

Waves crashing into basaltic rocks formed from lava flows on Hawai'i Island. Courtesy of pxhere.com

Ariel Léger/University of Arizona

Millie Hawley, President, Native Village of Kivalina. Used with permission

CAKE, Shishmaref Erosion and Relocation Coalition, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Alaska

This photo has been released into the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. No endorsement by licensor implied.

This photo has been released into the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. No endorsement by licensor implied.

Famartin, own work. CC-BY-SA-3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

R. Wilborn, www.virtualterraintours.com. Used with permission

Molly McCormick/USGS

Jill Clardy. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/, via Flickr

Regular Daddy, own work. CC BY-SA 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, or GFDL, http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html, via Wikimedia Commons

Photo attributed to Lucasmj. Incorporated here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. No endorsement by licensor implied.

Alaska ShoreZone

Photo by F. A. Johnson, USGS Wetland and Aquatic Research Center. Used with permission. https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol25/iss3/art9/