Image Index

A map of the locations visited on this field trip. Click to see context.

Figure 1. This graph shows worldwide sea level rise due to climate change over the past 12,500 years.

Figure 2. When Bogue Inlet moved, this house was undercut by waves.

Figure 3. Erosion of dunes threatens this beachfront housing.

Figure 4. The sound side of a barrier island, too, can be eroded by waves.

Figure 5. This flat land is quickly flooded when sea level rises.

Figure 6. A salt marsh in Carteret County.

Figure 7. The salt marsh barely rises above sea level.

Figure 8. This marsh is being eroded by rising sea level.

Figure 9. Flooding has broken this salt marsh into smaller pieces.

Figure 10. This pine forest is being invaded by salt marsh.

Figure 11. Stumps are all that remains of a forest taken over by salt marsh.

Figure 12. Salt marsh has also invaded this maritime forest.

Figure 13. These hard structures have been built to protect the shoreline from erosion in a time of rising sea level.