Texas Coastal Geology PowerPoint Presentations

Dr. Watson presented a talk at Sargassum Symposium 2008, a three day meeting of coastal scientists, city managers, the Texas General Land Office and beach maintenance and equipment experts and manufactures. His talk was titled:

Good and Bad Beach Maintenance on an Eroding Shoreline

Click here to watch a video of the presentation.

You can click here to download a narrated copy of the presentation. It is about 20 mb, so it will take time to download. Download the file sargassum.pps

Or you can click here to play the slide show directly.

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Dr. Watson presented an invited paper at the Geological Society of American national convention in Denver on the 28th of October, 2007. The keynote session is titled "Identifying America’s Most Vulnerable Oceanfront Communities: A Geological Perspective." Click the following link to read the abstract.

"SEVERE BEACH EROSION AT SURFSIDE, TEXAS CAUSED BY ENGINEERING MODIFICATIONS TO THE COAST AND RIVERS"

You can click here to download a narrated copy of the presentation. It is about 13 MB, so it will take time to download. Download the file surfsidesound.pps.

Or you can click here to play the slide show directly.

Dr. Watson gave a presentation titled Severe Erosion of Texas Beaches Caused by Engineering Modifications to the Coast and Rivers at the Harte Research Institute auditorium, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, Texas on Friday January 19, 2007. The proposed 350 ft. setback for construction on Nueces County barrier islands was discussed. A PowerPoint slide show of this talk with narration as presented at the Harte Institute can be downloaded at the following link. The presentation is about 70 megabytes and will take about 15 minutes to download on a fast connection.

Texas Coastal Geology

Richard L. Watson, Ph.D., P.G.

PowerPoint Presentations

You can click here to download a narrated copy of the presentation. It is about 20 mb, so it will take time to download. Download the file sargassum.pps

Or you can click here to play the slide show directly.

"SEVERE BEACH EROSION AT SURFSIDE, TEXAS CAUSED BY ENGINEERING MODIFICATIONS TO THE COAST AND RIVERS"

You can click here to download a narrated copy of the presentation. It is about 13 MB, so it will take time to download. Download the file surfsidesound.pps.

Or you can click here to play the slide show directly.

Please go to the following page and download the file "erosion.pps".

http://TexasCoastGeology.com/erosion