Welcome to the CECL
In the Coastal Environmental Change Lab (CECL; directed by Dr. Laura Moore) our research focuses on the large-scale evolution of coastal environments with an emphasis on understanding the impacts of climate change on barrier coastlines. Using a combination of field and numerical techniques we investigate:
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- Barrier island response to rising sea level, changing storm frequency and anthropogenic reductions in overwash
- Coastal foredune dynamics
- The role of ecomorphodynamics (i.e., interactions between ecological and physical processes) in the evolution of barrier island-marsh-bay systems
- The effects of changing wave climate on patterns of coastline change
- Couplings between natural coastal processes and human alterations to the coastal system.
- Arts-based approaches to climate change education
Features/News
Fall 2024 Graduate Student Opportunities!
C-CoAST, a new network of coastal researchers, practitioners and stakeholders, for which Moore serves as Director, was funded by the National Science Foundation in April 2020.
NOAA NCCOS features a recent paper by CECL Ph.D. student Michael Itzkin, Moore and colleagues.
CSDMS awards CECL Ph.D. student Ian Reeves the Syvitski Student Modeler Award.
Barrier Island Dynamics edited by Laura J. Moore and A. Brad Murray released January 2018.
Endeavors Magazine features Moore’s Cape Lookout/Bogue Banks research.
Nature Climate Change features article on Barrier Islands by Moore and former postdoc Orencio Duran.