350 Year Hog Island History

The National Science Foundation's Long-Term Ecological Research Program at the Virginia Coast Reserve is one of 18 such field ecological research centers throughout the Nation and on the Antarctic Continent that have been chartered to study the evolution and dynamics of landscapes and ecosystems over the long term. The Virginia Coast Reserve site was selected for this program in part because of the extreme rapidity of change that is typical of this coast and the prospects of productive measurement programs. The presentation slides below are taken from a talk given at the National Science Foundation on October 25, 1995.

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Slides

Introduction

The Punch Line

Virginia's Eastern Shore

The National Science Foundation LTER Program

Today: The Way Things Are

Beaches Without People

Development?

The Backside of the Island Becomes the Front Side

Island Sands Like the Fluid Air and Water

Hog Island in 1973

History: The Way Things Were

Miss Sallie Doughty of Boadwater, VA

Dunes on Hog Island

The Lighthouse at Broadwater.

Processes: What Causes Change

Wind, Waves and Moving Sand

Major Changes on Hog Island

Woody Shrubs Expand

Measuring Change

Charting the Movement of the Shoreline

When Change Changes

Recording When Change Changes

Reversal of Shoreline Change: The Photographic Period

The Reversal at Hog Island

Everywhere on the Atlantic Coast

Reversal of Shoreline Change: The Land Survey Period

A Reversal on Hog Island in the 1870s

A Reversal At Cape Hatteras, NC in the 1870s

A Reversal on Cape May, NJ in the 1870s

Reversal of Shoreline Change: The Recent Geologic History

Change in the 16th Century?

350 Years of Change at Hog Island, VA.

Connection to Living on the Coast

This homepage of slides for the NSF talk will be available for the next few weeks at the URL address listed in the Netscape location bar. Bruce Hayden can be reached at 804-924-0545 and at the e-mail addresss -- bph@virginia.edu