Troubled Waters

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. A Cautionary Scientific Tale and an Introduction to This Book

   • Stephen J. Culver

   Pages 1-14

3. Buried Secrets of the North Carolina Coast, USA

   • David J. Mallinson

   Pages 15-31

4. Time and Tide Wait for No Man

   • Andrew C. Kemp, Benjamin P. Horton

   Pages 33-53

5. Barrier Island Breakdown: The Ephemeral Outer Banks of North Carolina

   • Stephen J. Culver

   Pages 55-68

6. A Different Kind of Sea-Level Story from Malaysia

   • Peter R. Parham

   Pages 69-91

7. What Lies Beneath? Revealing Coastal Processes Through Mapping

   • J. P. Walsh

   Pages 93-108

8. The Anthropocene, Wait, What? A Basque’s Coastal Experience Helps to Figure It Out

   • Eduardo Leorri

   Pages 109-121

9. A Tale of Two Hydrogeology Problems in Coastal North Carolina

   • Alex K. Manda

   Pages 123-135

10. Drilling the North Carolina Coastal Plain – Discovering What Lies Beneath

    • Kathleen M. Farrell

    Pages 137-150

11. Earthquake-Driven Coastal Change: Ghost Forests, Graveyards and “Komodo Dragons”

    • Andrea D. Hawkes

    Pages 151-167

12. A Scientist’s Personal 70-Year Discourse with Past, Present and Future Coastal Change

    • Stanley R. Riggs

    Pages 169-188

13. Climate, Sea Level, and People – Changing South Florida’s Mangrove Coast

    • G. Lynn Wingard

    Pages 189-211

14. Pictures from Space and Feet in the Mud: Understanding the Value of the World’s Changing Mangrove Forests

    • David Lagomasino

    Pages 213-231

15. What Is Happening to the World’s Coral Reefs?

    • Pamela Hallock

    Pages 233-252

16. The Water, the Coast, the Future

    • Joy Moses-Hall

    Pages 253-257

17. Afterword: The Power of the Ocean

    • Stephen J. Culver

    Pages 259-267

The book communicates coastal geology such that the reader gets a better understanding of how scientists work and how scientific knowledge is acquired and how it progresses. It presents the human side of geologic research, including missteps, in this case, research on coastal change of the recent past, the present, and the near future. The audience for this volume is the general public, coastal managers, politicians, and decision makers in general, in the coastal realm. But the implications of this work with regard to future climate change and human responses are relevant globally.

• Sea level rise
• Mangroves
• Florida Keys
• North Carolina coast
• Seaflor dynamics
• climate change
• climate change impacts
• coastal sciences

• Department of Geological Sciences, East Carolina University, Greenville, USA

  Stephen J. Culver

Educated at the University of Wales (Swansea), Steve Culver taught for two years at the University of Sierra Leone before moving to the US in 1978 on a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution. Except for a five-year sojourn at the Natural History Museum, London in the 1990s, Professor Culver has taught and conducted coastal research for over 30 years at Old Dominion University and East Carolina University. He is coeditor of a textbook on biotic response to global change over the past 135 million years and coauthor of a popular text on coastal change in North Carolina, USA. His recent research has utilized microfossils (foraminifera) as tools to reconstruct past and understand current coastal environmental change in North Carolina and peninsular Malaysia.

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