Tidal Variability of Waves and Currents on a Caribbean Barrier Reef

• Main Author: Wegner, Chelsea
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholar Commons 2013
• Subjects: barrier reefs; Caribbean coral reefs; hydrodynamics; reef morpholohgy; sea level rise; wave energy dissipation; Life Sciences; Buck Island; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/1559; https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2560&context=etd

The modern framework of Caribbean coral reefs is a product of resilient structures that have survived extreme variations in sea level for the past 18,000 years. However, the added influences of anthropogenic pressures, including ocean acidification, overfishing, pollution and bleaching make the futu...