The Beachapedia Blog Has Moved!

The Surfrider Foundation has consolidated all of our issue-based blogs into one Coastal Blog. Come check it out at www.surfrider.org/coastal-blog

Find Your Chapter Info

All basic info on Surfrider Foundation chapters are now on Beachapedia.

http://www.beachapedia.org/Category:Chapters

Figure out how best to communicate with the chapter closest to you.



The info from the chapters' pages also feed into boxes located all over the site. If you are in a chapter be sure to update your vitals.

What is Marine Debris?

"Common items like fishing line, strapping bands and six-pack rings can hamper the mobility of marine animals. Once entangled, animals have trouble eating, breathing or swimming, all of which can have fatal results. Plastics take hundreds of years to break down and may continue to trap and kill animals year after year."


http://www.beachapedia.org/Marine_Debris

Shoreline Structures

Seawalls, groins, jetties and other shoreline stabilization structures have had tremendous impacts on our nation's beaches. Shoreline structures are built to alter the effects of ocean waves, currents and sand movement. They are usually built to "protect" buildings that were built on a beach that is losing sand. Sometimes they are built to redirect rivers and streams. Other times they are constructed to shelter boats in calm water. In many cases, seawalls, jetties, breakwaters and groins have caused down-coast erosion problems with associated costs that have greatly exceeded the construction cost of the structure.





http://beachapedia.org/Shoreline_Structures

Watershed

Do you know what a watershed is? Many people can't describe it accurately.

http://www.beachapedia.org/Watershed

First Flush

All this rain made us think about what happens to all the accumulated gunk from the dry summer when it's first washed down the drain and out to sea.

That's the First Flush.

Nearshore features animation

Cool animation provided by Earthguide at Scripps Inst. of Oceanography. Added to the definition of Nearshore: beachapedia.org/nearshore