Tracking Shifting Sands Along the Nation’s Coast
8:22 minutes
As New Yorkers braced themselves for Hurricane Sandy, coastal geologist Cheryl Hapke was out surveying Fire Island, a barrier island off the Long Island coast. Days later, Hapke was back to document the hurricane’s effects and found a breach cutting the island in two. Now locals and scientists are debating whether the inlet should be filled in or left as nature intended.
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Cheryl Hapke
Cheryl Hapke is a coastal geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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