Our Mission
The Shoreline Studies Program (SSP) within the Department of Physical Sciences conducts basic and applied research primarily within the
shore zone of the Chesapeake Bay estuarine system and Virginia's ocean coast.
Research efforts involve wave climate analysis, shoreline morphology, shore zone stratigraphy and recommending shoreline management strategies.
"Just a few years ago beaches were desolate wastes of sand dunes and underbrush, little enjoyed by the people of the hinterland of our States bordering the coast.
Today a beach is recognized as the playground and health restoring assest
of the State, and each year finds this assest attracting more and more people, and
contributing annually to the welfare and happiness or our people,
with the logical result of enhanced values in land once considered of little value.
It, therefore, behooves us to give careful thought to the permanence of an assest
of such potential importance."
Virginia Senate Document No.14 from 1932
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Chesapeake Bay Dune Systems:
Coastal primary dunes form by accumulation of sand due to wind and wave action along shore.
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Chesapeake Bay Breakwater Database:
Stone breakwaters are "free standing" structures designed to reduce wave action before the waves reach the upland region of the shores...
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