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ORRIN H. PILKEY SHIFTING
SANDS NPR's Linda talks with Orrin Pilkey, Professor of Geology at Duke University
and author of "The Beaches are Moving." He expects the Outer Banks of North
Carolina will look quite different when this storm has passed...
RECENT PUBLICATIONS Click here for recent abstracts. Martinez, J, J. Gonzalez, O.H. Pilkey, and W.J. Neal, "Tropical Barrier Islands of Columbia's Pacific Coast," Journal of Coastal Res. 11, 432-453 (1995). Pilkey, O.H., et. al., "The Concept of Shoreface Profile of Equilibrium. A Critical Review," Journal of Coastal Res. 9, 255-278 (1993). Pilkey, O.H, "Another View of Beachfill Performance," Shore and Beach, April, 20-25 (1992). Leonard, L, T. Clayton, and O.H. Pilkey, " An Analysis of Replenished Beach Design Parameters on U.S. East Coast Barrier Islands," Journal of Coastal Res. 6, 15-36 (1990). RECENT GRADUATE STUDENT PROJECTS Rob Young (University of Maine), Evolution of salt marsh in a rising sea level, Ph.D. Rob Thieler (Dickinson College), Shoreface sedimentation in southeastern North Carolina, Ph.D. . Tsung Yi Lin (National Sun Yat-Sen University), Aeolian sand budget of a barrier island, Ph.D. RESEARCH Orrin Pilkey is a James B. Duke Professor of Geology and Director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines (PSDS) within the Division of Earth and Ocean Science at Duke University. Pilkey received his B.S. degree in Geology at Washington State College, his M.S. degree in Geology at the University of Montana and his Ph.D. degree in Geology at Florida State University. From 1962 to 1965 he was an assistant research professor with the University of Georgia Marine Institute on Sapelo Island, Georgia. Since 1965 he has been at Duke Univesity with one year breaks with the Department of Marine Science at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaquez and with the U.S. Geological Survey in Woods Hole Massachusetts. His research career started with the study of shroeline/ continental shelf sedimentation, progressing to the deep sea with empahasis on abyssal plain sediments and back to nearshore with emphasis on coastal management. He has published more than 150 technical publications. Currently PSDS research focuses on beach replenishment and other forms of shoreline stabilization, evaluation of the validity of mathematical models of beach behavior, hazard risk mapping on barrier islands, sedimentary processes on shorefaces, mitigation of hurricane property damage on barriers, and principles of barrier island evolution in Colombia, South America. In 1987 he was awarded the Francis Shepard medal for excellence in marine geology and in 1991 he was the N.C. Wildlife Federation Conservation educator of the year. In 1992 he became an honorary member of the Society for the Study of Sediments (SEPM) and was awarded the George V. Cohee Public Service Award by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. In 1993 he was awarded (jointly with William Neal) the American Geological Institute award for outstanding public communication. In the same year, he received the Jim Shea Award for Public Service from the National Association of Geology Teachers. Previously he was president of SEPM, the Society for the Study of Sediments, president of the North Carolina Academy of Science and editor of the Journal of Sedimentary Petrology. He is co-editor and sometimes co-author of the ongoing 20 volume, state specific Living With the Shore series published by the Duke Press. He has also been featured in New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Oceans Magazine, The American Way, Fifty Plus, Smithsonian Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and National Geographic Magazine. His research in recent years has been funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Geographic Society, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Science Foundation, and a variety of private foundations. |
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"Serving Destin, Ft. Walton Beach, Panama City, Pensacola, Crestview, Eglin AFB, Hurlburt Field and all points in-between..."
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James B. Duke
Professor of Earth Sciences