“Beaches usually erode quickly during storms and then recover slowly under mild wave conditions,” said Brett Sanders, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Irvine, who runs UCI’s Flood Lab. “But when the coast experiences several storms in a row, with inadequate time for beach recovery, the impacts of winter storms magnify as we saw this year in Northern California. Given increases in wave energy and rising sea levels,” he said, “a takeaway message is that holding back coastal erosion is becoming even more challenging.” [Subscription required, you can request an electronic copy of the article by sending an email to communications@uci.edu.] Read More