Photo by Brigida Sanchez | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District | 04.21.2022
Sand dunes are created when wind deposits sand on top of each other until a small mound starts to form. Once that first mound forms, sand piles up on the windward side more and more until the edge of the dune collapses under its own weight. Here you can see the patterns of the windblown particles in between the blades of sea oats, Atlantic Beach, Jacksonville, Fl. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers......
Photo by Brigida Sanchez | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District | 04.20.2022
Matthew Schrader, a coastal engineer and planner with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Jacksonville District points down at the perfect wave-like pattern that forms around the base of the dune that was created by the wind, Atlantic Beach, Jacksonville, Fl. Sand dunes provide natural coastal protection against storm surge and high waves, preventing or reducing coastal flooding and......
Photo by Brigida Sanchez | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District | 04.20.2022
Matthew Schrader, a coastal engineer and planner with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Jacksonville District has worked and played on most of the 1,350 miles that make up the Florida coast. As we stood at the Seventh Street entrance of the beach, he showed me an old-timey black and white photo taken after Hurricane Dora in 1964 that he had enlarged of that very same spot. Juxtaposing......
