Beach Erosion Blog

9/23 - We are starting a wiki page for a research project in science class. Our group will be researching beach erosion. Our teacher gave mountain building, land subsidence, and continental drift to the other groups, and we will all visit www.rollyo.com to start our research. We are required to keep this blog about our research findings, make a podcast of our final summary, and use  www.docs.google.com to create our charts and works cited.

9/24 - Today Gena found a great site from the rollyo search with a video about how beaches are really growing and shrinking in the seasons. During fall and winter, sand and other debris carried off the beach into the ocean. During spring and summer, things are brough back and deposited. We are going to try to include clips from that video in our podcast if Derek can figure out how to do it.

9/25 - We discovered that there are people who cart in sand to their beach to replace what has been moved off. It's really expensive and not always effective, plus other people say it's the responsibility of the property owners to building far enough away from the water, and if they don't, then it's their own fault. We kind of agree.

9/28 - Katherine found an article on the different ways to prevent erosion. One of them is a seawall, but then the article said that seawalls actually do more damage and shouldn't be used any more. Mike disagrees.

9/29 - We created the chart of the erosion rates for four Texas beaches using Excel in GoogleDocs then we uploaded to this wiki.

9/30 - Today we worked on our podcast. We have never done this before so it took a little bit of time. We decided Katherine would be the voice of our podcast. We are still working on the timing of the pictures with the summary.

10/1 - We finished our podcast today. We are happy with the way it turned out and are looking forward to seeing what the other groups have done. We uploaded our podcast on this wiki.

10/2 - Today we completed our works cited page. We used Citation Machine to make sure we put everything in the right format. I think we are finally done! We broke the work up by using GoogleDocs so we could all edit the document at the same time. After we finished we uploaded it.