Texas Coastal Geology

Richard L. Watson, Ph.D.

P.O. Box 1040 Port Aransas, TX 78373
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Richard@TexasCoastGeology.com

PowerPoint Presentations

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On July 15, 2011, Dr. Watson gave a presentation to the Corpus Christi Westside Rotary Club.  The presentation explained the importance of keeping the 350 ft. building setback on Mustang and North Padre Islands as instituted by Nueces County.  This setback ensures that ongoing beach and dune erosion will not reach any new structures for a long time.  Download the 20 mb presentation here.


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On June 4-5, 2009 The Texas General Land Office held the Texas Coastal Conference 2009 in Galveston, Texas.  Dr. Watson gave an invited presentation titled What has hurricane Ike taught us about beach and dune management.  You can download and watch this narrated powerpoint presentation at the following link.  The file is about 20 mb, so it is best to download it rather than just click on it, unless you have a very fast internet connection.  Download the presentation here.


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Dr. Watson presented a lecture titled Ike wiped entire towns off of the map.  Are we safer in Port Aransas?  The presentation was made at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas, TX on March 12, 2009 to a standing room only crowd.  The slide show includes before and after photos of the upper Texas coast destroyed by Ike, Ike's effects on Mustang and N. Padre islands, and comparison to past hurricanes and the flooding that they caused at Port Aransas.  You can click on the link below to watch and listen to this narrated presentation.  However, the file is very large, about 46 mb and it is probably better to download it and watch it offline.

Ike wiped entire towns off of the map.  Are we safer in Port Aransas?




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Dr. Watson presented a talk titled Was Hurricane Ike a wake-up call, or are we going back to sleep? on January 15, 2008
at the Corpus Christi museum of Science and Technology

The narrated presentation can be downloaded here.  It is about 28 mb and will take time to download.



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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

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




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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. 

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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.  

Please right click here to download the file erosion.pps


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