Troubled Waters: Understanding the Science Behind our Coastal Crisis

Chapter 1. A Cautionary Scientific Tale and an Introduction to this Book.- Chapter 2. Buried Secrets of the North CarolinaCoast, USA.- Chapter 3. Time and Tide Wait for No Man.- Chapter 4. Barrier Island Breakdown: the Ephemeral Outer Banks of North Carolina.- Chapter 5. A Different Kind of Sea-Level Story from Malaysia.- Chapter 6. What Lies Beneath? Revealing Coastal Processes through Mapping.- Chapter 7. The Anthropocene, Wait, What? A Basque's Coastal Experience Helps to Figure it Out.- Chapter 8. A Tale of Two Hydrogeology Problems in Coastal North Carolina.- Chapter 9. Drilling the North Carolina Coastal Plain - Discovering What Lies Beneath.- Chapter 10. Earthquake-Driven Coastal Change: Ghost Forests, Graveyards and "Komodo Dragons".- Chapter 11. A Scientist's Personal 70-Year Discourse with Past, Present and Future Coastal Change.- Chapter 12. Climate, Sea Level, and People - Changing South Florida's Mangrove Coast.- Chapter 13. Pictures from Space and Feet in the Mud: Understanding the Value of the World's Changing Mangrove Forests.- Chapter 14. What is Happening to the World's Coral Reefs?.- Chapter 15. The Water, the Coast, the Future.- Chapter 16. Afterword: The Power of the Ocean.