Surprising results from a collaborative large-scale physical modeling study of vegetated dunes under storm wave attack conducted at the OSU O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory have now been published in “Science Advances“:
Feagin, R.A., Innocenti, R.A., Bond, H., Wengrove, M., Huff, T.P., Lomonaco, P., Tsai, B., Puleo, J., Pontiki, M., Figlus, J., Chavez, V., and Silva, R. (2023). Does vegetation accelerate coastal dune erosion during extreme events? Science Advances 9/24: eadg7135.
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