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Video by Steve Bransford. The Georgia Coast Atlas is a public, online gateway to the dynamic ecosystems and intriguing history of the state’s 100-mile-long coast and barrier islands. Emory University’s Department of Environmental Sciences and the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship launched the ambitious project.
- Physiographic Districts
- Today’S Barrier Islands
- Coastal Industry
- Current Threats to The Coast
The Lower Coastal Plain contains several subregions, or physiographic districts, based on topography, geology, soil, flora, fauna, and other factors. The most notable of these districts are the Barrier Island Sequence and the Okefenokee Basin. The Barrier Island Sequence includes primordial seashores and the present-day coastline. The area is compo...
Georgia meets the Atlantic Ocean along the sandy beaches of the present-day barrier islands, known as the Sea Islands or the Golden Isles. Scientists refer to them as barrier islands because they form a barrier between the sea and the land. The current configuration of Georgia’s shoreline is only the most recent in a long series of changing shoreli...
Coastal fisheries and forest resources support a number of industries engaged in processing, manufacturing, and marketing seafoods and wood products. In general, tourism and recreation, shipping at the ports of Savannah and Augusta, papermaking, commercial fishing, and forestry have been the most important economic activities of Georgia’s modern co...
Growth projections for Georgia’s coast indicate a 20 percent population increase per decade over the next few decades. Thanks to the protected status of most of Georgia’s barrier islands, the majority of them should be spared many problems typically associated with rapid and extensive unplanned development. Nevertheless, as sea levels rise due to g...
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Mar 7, 2023 · The five most bizarre lines from CPAC 2023. The latest Conservative Political Action Conference outside of Washington DC proved that former President Donald Trump remains firmly in control of the Republican Party going into the 2024 election. The latest CPAC gathering was the first in the nation’s capital since the Covid-19 pandemic began.
CNN’s Daniel Dale noted at the time that that number was still “far from the total”, adding that the speech was full of “wildly inaccurate claims”.. Never a man to be unduly bothered by ...
Feb 25, 2021 · Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state, and Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota will anchor the lineup on Saturday. He will speak on the Bill of Rights at 1:35 p.m. and she will address the ...
Sep 25, 2009 · Georgia History. In many ways Georgia’s history is integrally linked to that of the rest of the South and the rest of the nation. But as the largest state east of the Mississippi, the youngest and southernmost of the thirteen colonies, and by 1860 the most populous southern state, Georgia is in certain respects historically distinctive.
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