{"id":21993,"date":"2019-08-12T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T17:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/currents\/?p=11963"},"modified":"2024-05-21T15:54:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T19:54:04","slug":"wave-tanks-show-effects-of-storm-surge-on-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wave-tanks-show-effects-of-storm-surge-on-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Wave Tanks Show Effects of Storm Surge on Beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors to Jennette\u2019s Pier Aquarium in Nags Head and MarineQuest at the University of North Carolina Wilmington are seeing storm surge impacts \u2014 on demand and on a small scale.<\/p>\n<p>Wave tanks at the two locations, funded by North Carolina Sea Grant, reveal the beach responds during storms as well as during daily tidal changes. Staff members use the tanks for K-12 education demonstrations throughout the year, and for summer camps at MarineQuest.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11968\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11968\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/08\/Wave-Tanks-Show.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11968\" src=\"http:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/08\/Wave-Tanks-Show.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spencer Rogers built wave tanks for Jennette\u2019s Pier Aquarium and MarineQuest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Spencer Rogers, North Carolina Sea Grant\u2019s coastal construction and erosion specialist, designed and built the tanks, basing the motors and controls on a similar wave tank at the University of Delaware. UNCW Machine Shop staff fabricated and welded parts for the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tanks can produce up to a three-inch wave and are intended to be an active model for how the beach works,\u201d Rogers says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe beaches are changing all the time, but students don\u2019t always realize that. These tanks show how beach features adjust with variations in factors such as wave height, storm surge and sand grain size.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the effects of storm surge and other types of erosion on beaches: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/previous-issues\/2019-2\/spring-2019\/return-of-the-dunes-the-science-of-post-florence-recovery\/\" class=\"broken_link\">The Return of the Dunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/uncw.edu\/marinequest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MarineQuest<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaquariums.com\/Jennettes-Pier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jennette&#8217;s Pier Aquarium<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors to Jennette\u2019s Pier Aquarium in Nags Head and MarineQuest at the University of North Carolina Wilmington are seeing storm surge impacts \u2014 on demand and on a small scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":11966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[761],"tags":[],"_ncst_magazine_issue":[],"class_list":["post-21993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-currents"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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