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2012 Spring | Arts & Humanities, Natural Science & Restoration

Shifting Sand: Changes in Spit Morphology

Student(s):

Kelly Sullivan

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment
  • University of Washington

Site supervisor(s):

Ian Miller

Partner(s):

  • Washington Sea Grant

Faculty advisor(s):

Miles Logsdon, Department of Oceanography, University of Washington

For my Capstone project, I worked with the Washington Sea Grant’s Coastal Hazards program on a GIS project centered on historical shoreline change. The core focus of this project was the production of a digital representation of the shorelines for Dungeness Spit and Ediz Hook. From this digital rendering, I was able to conduct a basic analysis of shoreline morphology and research possible driving forces of these changes. The work that I completed is a starting point for further research into the fields of shoreline morphology and costal development.