{"id":14,"date":"2012-09-05T11:20:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:32:12","slug":"course-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/adamsp\/courses\/course-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GLY 4734 &#8211; Coastal Processes and Morphology"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GLY 4734 &#8211; Coastal Processes and Morphology<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Time and Location<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Tues. 9:35 &#8211; 10:25am, Thurs. 9:35 &#8211; 11:30am, 202 Williamson Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #243778;font-family: ufshands, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 1.8rem;font-weight: normal\">Description and Goals<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>This class will focus on quantitative investigations into the origin\/evolution of coastal landforms and the physical processes responsible for their creation and modification.\u00a0 We will cover the following topics:\u00a0 geomorphic classification of coasts, sediment description and analysis, sea level fluctuation, tides, generation and transformation of waves, wave breaking, nearshore currents, longshore and cross-shore sediment transport, deltas, estuaries, beach and nearshore morphology, barrier island systems, cliffed coasts, and the effects of climate change on coastal environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Course Objectives:<\/strong> At the completion of this course, students will be able to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Summarize the schemes of coastal classification and identify the tectonic setting of a coast by evaluating the coastal landforms at a location.<\/li>\n<li>Appreciate the influence of global climate and long-term sea level history on a coastal setting.<\/li>\n<li>Distinguish among various processes responsible for short-term dynamic changes in sea level.<\/li>\n<li>Explain the origin of the tides with Newton&#8217;s equilibrium theory and the complexities explained by dynamic tidal theory.<\/li>\n<li>Outline the processes of wave transformation from generation to propagation to shoaling and breaking including the role of refraction.<\/li>\n<li>Summarize the generation of cross-shore and longshore currents in shallow coastal waters.<\/li>\n<li>Classify coastal sediments and demonstrate how sediment transport within littoral cells influences the evolution of shore profiles and planform shapes.<\/li>\n<li>Link the form and variability of beaches and shallow sedimentary features to the hydrodynamic and sedimentary processes shaping them.<\/li>\n<li>Provide an overview of how barrier systems originate and evolve.<\/li>\n<li>Explain the linked behavior of tidal inlets, estuary hydrodynamics, and back barrier morphology.<\/li>\n<li>Contrast rocky and sandy coasts in terms of dominant geomorphic processes.<\/li>\n<li>Provide several examples where humans are adapting to, or altering, a coastal site.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":598,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/adamsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/adamsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/adamsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/adamsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/adamsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/adamsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/adamsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/263"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/adamsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/adamsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}