Katie Peek

Western Carolina University | WCU · Department of Geosciences and Natural Resources

There are very few examples of managed retreat in the coastal zone of the USA. Those that exist are primarily the last, desperate acts for communities with limited financial resources (e.g., Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana and the Blue Acres Program in New Jersey). The vast majority of retreat in the coastal United States is either completely unman...

This document presents the results of the Coastal Hazards & Sea-Level Rise Asset Vulnerability Assessment completed by Western Carolina University at San Juan National Historic Site. This assessment evaluates vulnerability (as a combination of exposure and sensitivity) of NPS buildings and transportation assets to identified coastal hazards and cli...

This document presents the results of the Coastal Hazards & Sea-Level Rise Asset Vulnerability Assessment completed by Western Carolina University at Salem Maritime National Historic Site. This assessment evaluates vulnerability (as a combination of exposure and sensitivity) of NPS buildings and transportation assets to identified coastal hazards a...

This document presents the results of the Coastal Hazards & Sea-Level Rise Asset Vulnerability Assessment completed by Western Carolina University at the Manhattan Sites. This assessment evaluates vulnerability (as a combination of exposure and sensitivity) of NPS buildings and transportation assets to identified coastal hazards and climate change...

This document presents the results of the Coastal Hazards & Sea-Level Rise Asset Vulnerability Assessment completed by Western Carolina University at Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site. This assessment evaluates vulnerability (as a combination of exposure and sensitivity) of NPS buildings and transportation assets to identified coastal hazard...

This document presents the results of the Coastal Hazards & Sea-Level Rise Asset Vulnerability Assessment completed by Western Carolina University at Fort Pulaski National Monument. This assessment evaluates vulnerability (as a combination of exposure and sensitivity) of NPS buildings and transportation assets to identified coastal hazards and clim...

This document presents the results of the Coastal Hazards & Sea-Level Rise Asset Vulnerability Assessment completed by Western Carolina University at Independence National Historical Park, Edgar Allen Poe National Historic Site, Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial, and Gloria Dei Church National Historic Site. This assessment evaluates vulnerabil...

This document presents the results of the Coastal Hazards & Sea-Level Rise Asset Vulnerability Assessment completed by Western Carolina University at Assateague Island National Seashore. This assessment evaluates vulnerability (as a combination of exposure and sensitivity) of NPS buildings and transportation assets to identified coastal hazards and...

This document presents the results of the Coastal Hazards & Sea-Level Rise Asset Vulnerability Assessment completed by Western Carolina University at Virgin Islands National Park. This assessment evaluates vulnerability (as a combination of exposure and sensitivity) of NPS buildings and transportation assets to identified coastal hazards and climat...

This document presents the results of the Coastal Hazards & Sea-Level Rise Asset Vulnerability Assessment completed by Western Carolina University at Dry Tortugas National Park. This assessment evaluates vulnerability (as a combination of exposure and sensitivity) of NPS buildings and transportation assets to identified coastal hazards and climate...

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The National Park Service (NPS), in collaboration with the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University, developed a standard natural hazards and climate change vulnerability assessment methodology for infrastructure in coastal national parks. The Coastal Hazards & Sea-Level Rise Asset Vulnerability Assessment Protoc...

Climate changes are affecting virtually all National Park Service units and resources, and an assessment of climate vulnerabilities is important for developing proactive management plans to respond appropriately to these changes and threats. Vulnerability assessments typically evaluate exposure and sensitivity of the assessment targets and evaluate...

Vulnerability assessments of National Park Service units and resources including infrastructure, natural resources, and cultural resources were evaluated to better understand the “state of the science” among these resource groups. While approaches are diverse, methods for evaluating infrastructure and natural resource vulnerability assessments were...

https://whova.com/embedded/session/ncpc_202010/1945741/

The Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, in partnership with the National Park Service (NPS), has established an approach for assessing the climate change and coastal hazard vulnerability of NPS infrastructure. This vulnerability assessment (VA) protocol standardizes the methodologies and data used, allowing managers to compare the vulner...

https://files.nc.gov/ncdeq/Coastal%20Management/documents/PDF/Land%20Use%20Plans/pmg-projects/DuckInfrastructureVulnerabilityAssessment_FINAL2020.pdf

Abstract link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/osm20/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/659618 iPoster link: https://osm2020-agu.ipostersessions.com/default.aspx?s=3C-48-A5-26-DE-AB-E0-75-B5-DB-DE-75-2F-59-8E-4F

The Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, in partnership with the National Park Service (NPS), has developed a new approach for assessing the natural hazard and climate change vulnerability of NPS infrastructure. This vulnerability assessment protocol standardizes the methodologies and data used, allowing managers to compare the vulnerabil...

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https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/EGU2018-10461.pdf

Fire Island National Seashore Coastal Hazards & Sea-Level Rise Asset Vulnerability Assessment

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https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016SE/webprogram/Paper273696.html

http://www.erf.org/cerf2015

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Hard stabilization was utilized in 2007 with the installation of six T-head groins in an attempt to reduce high rates of erosion on Hunting Island State Park, South Carolina. Groins trap littoral sediment on the updrift side while decreasing sediment supply downdrift. A salt marsh is located downdrift from one T-head groin, and appeared to be retre...

Over the next century, warming global temperatures will present many challenges for the National Park Service (NPS) and public land managers. Rising sea level will be one of the most obvious and most challenging impacts of this warming. Even a minor increase in sea level will have significant effects on coastal hazards, natural resources and assets...

The Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines (PSDS) at Western Carolina University (WCU), in conjunction with The Nature Conservancy, set out to test the hypothesis that New Jersey beaches nourished since 2000 provided a significant degree of storm damage reduction during Sandy. We identified and mapped all nourishment episodes in NJ between 2...

https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2014AM/webprogram/Paper249550.html

Micropaleontological, geophysical, and chronologic data indicate that normal salinity conditions occurred over currently estuarine back-barrier areas of the Outer Banks of eastern North Carolina during the peak of the Medieval Climate Anomaly. Sedimentary units several meters thick, containing foraminiferal assemblages usually found on the continen...