Case Studies

Ruby, Beach, Beach, Washington, Usa, Landscape, ruby, beach, washington, shoreline, free download, cropped. CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0), https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/, via Piqsels. https://www.piqsels.com/en/public-domain-photo-fktnh

Credit: Town of Walton

Susan Wotkyns, Program Manager, Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals, Northern Arizona University

Sunset Beach is slammed by waves when high tide combined with high surf in the winter of 2013–2014. Photo courtesy of the University of Hawai‘i Sea Grant College Program (Hawai‘i Sea Grant).

Dr. Charles Dixon/Cannon Air Force Base

Jeff Sorensen/AZGFD

Photo attributed to Mike Brennan. Incorporated here under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. No endorsement by licensor implied.

Green and pink reef scene. American Samoa, Swains Island. Image Credit: NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Center, Coral Reef Ecosystem Program, Oceanography Team. CC-BY-2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

This image 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.
Old Harbor Life-Saving Station, Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts. Photo by JCefaly, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21669809