Loggerhead Island Project

This project was a fun one in my opinion. I thought at times that it was a bit challenging at times but it was cool to see how it was to make our own island. We had to protect the wild life that lived on the island while trying to build; a restaurant, golf course, club house, boat dock, research center, police/ fire department, 100 villas, 30 residential homes and more.

1. What special considerations did you have to make for the nesting sea turtle sites located on the barrier island? We knew that the sea turtles needed to be protected from any structures and buildings that were being built near it.

2. What special considerations had to be made when determining a good site for the proposed fishing pier? We knew that we couldn't put the pier near any of the the habitats because we didnt want to kill any of it.

3. What could be some of the potential problems that might arise from the proposed golf course? Propose some of the ways in which the impacts can be reduced. We made our golf course a little too big, it took over some of the land that was suppose to be for the turtles and the mangroves.

4. What are the economic benefits to the community of Loggerhead County if the development was done with the least amount of environmental impact? The economic benefits if the development was done with least amount of environmental impacts was that we would have more of an ecosystem and it would be a better place to live.

5. Describe three ways in which humans negatively impact coastal ecosystems such as the one you are working on with Loggerhead Barrier Island.Humans are building on wildlife all the time. We take out the nature to put in buildings and housing when it is not even needed. We are killing animals and taking their homes from them.

6. How can maintaining natural vegetation help us to reduce the damage caused by oceanic events such as hurricanes, tsunami and continued beach erosion? Natural vegetation helps to reduce the damage because it is all natural things. Our natural resources are the best things that we can live with and use.

7. After listening to the other groups make their presentations, were there any ideas they had you would have used if you had though about it before-hand? You should list at least three different ideas and indicate why their idea is actually better for the environment than yours. I think that some of the other groups had alot of good ideas. I think from listening to other groups we learned that we should have made our blue print alot more smaller than it was. We also could have protected our habitats more.

Coastal Classification

Hypothesis: The differences between secondary and primary locations.

Coastal Locations to be Researched and Classified using the Shepard Coastal Classification System:

A. Arcadia National Park, Maine- Primary because of its glaciers.
B. Cape Cod, Massachusetts- Primary because of the glaciers
C. Chesapeake Bay, Virginia- Primary because of glacier erosion
D. Atlantic City, New Jersey- Secondary because of coastal erosion
E. Mississippi Delta, Mississippi- Primary because of barrier islands
F. Kilauea Coast, Hawaii- Secondary because of the coastal plains
G. San Francisco Bay, California- Secondary because of the coastal plains
H. North Carolina Outer Banks- Primary because of non-marine processes
I. Indiana River Lagoon, Florida- Secondary because of mangrove coast
J. Puget Sound, Washington- Secondary because of the fault lines
K. South Florida/ Florida Keys- Primary because of compensation
L. Strait of Juan DeFuca, Washington- Primary because of the shore lines
M. Cape Canaveral, Florida- Primary because of the coastal plain
N. Aleutian Islands, Alaska- Primary because of the earth quakes
O. Florida Gulf Coast- Secondary because of land erosion
P. Texas Gulf Coast- Secondary because of the wave cuts
Q. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina- Secondary because of the landfall
R. Prince William Sound, Alaska- Primary because of the steep glaciers

Analysis Of Results:

1.  Primary cost elements are like materiel costs, personnel costs, energy costs where a corresponding account exists to allow costs to flow. Secondary cost elements are like production costs, material overheads, production overheads, they can be created and administered in only CO.  These are used in internal cost allocation, overhead calculation, settlement transactions. It does not flow to FI.

2. Coasts are divided into two categories: primary coasts, which were created by non-marine processes, and secondary coasts, which were formed by marine action. Primary coasts happen because of changes in the land, such as river deltas or lava flows. Secondary coasts are caused by changes in the ocean, such as the creation of barrier islands or coral reefs.

3. A coastal zone is the interface between the land and water. These zones are important because a majority of the world’s population inhabit such zones. Coastal zones are continually changing because of the dynamic interaction between the oceans and the land.

Station Two:

1. Three distinct types of circulation (highly stratified, weakly stratified, and partially mixed) arise in narrow, shallow estuaries from the finite amplitude of the tide and the interaction of stratification with vertical mixing. Each type has a different dominant process causing the vertical exchange.

2. Estuarine water circulation is controlled by the inflow of rivers, the tides, rainfall and evaporation, the wind, and other oceanic events such as an up swelling, an eddy, and storms. Water circulation patterns are influenced by vertical mixing and satisfaction, and can affect residence time and exposure time.

3.  The energy costs are easily paid because the same factors use the estuary as a nursery area, and may or may not go out to sea. Marine and freshwater fishes from penetrating far into estuaries.

4.  To survive in these conditions, plants and animals living in estuaries must be able to respond quickly to drastic changes in salinity. Many animals that live in estuaries must change their behavior according to the surrounding waters’ salinity in order to survive.

Station Three:

1. Estuaries are important natural places. They provide goods and services that are economically and ecologically indispensable. Often called nurseries of the sea, estuaries provide vital nesting and feeding habitats for many aquatic plants and animals.

2. One reason that estuaries are such productive ecosystems is that the water filtering through them brings in nutrients from the surrounding watershed. A watershed, or drainage basin, is the entire land area that drains into a particular body of water, like a lake, river or estuary.

3. It is necessary to review the various types of estuaries in the study area and their characteristic or unique attributes, and the differences among them. Conservation and management of the various estuarine wetlands requires an understanding of the ecosystem context in which the wetlands occur.

4. More than half of the people in the United States live within 100 miles of the coast, including on the shores of estuaries. And more and more people are moving to these areas. Coastal communities are growing three times fast.

5.  We endanger our estuaries by polluting the water and building on the lands surrounding them. These activities can contribute to unsafe drinking water, and much more.

Conclude And Communicate:

1. How are physical and geological characteristics used to classify the earths dynamics coastlines? Our hypothesis was that both coastlines were going to be very different in there own ways.

4. What major differences are between the west coastlines and the east coastlines? What are the things humans can do to improve out coastlines?

5. The value and importance of this activity was to understand the would we live in better, not only what we live on, but more beyond the surface and understand the bottoms of our oceans and the differences between each coast.

sand

• St. Matrin Simpson Bay- The color of this sand was black, it was not magnetic, it was very small, the texture was angular on the scale it was was sand, sorting was moderate and composition was rock.
• Key West- This sand was a mixture of both black and white, it is not magnetic, it was sum what small, it was moderate sorting, the composition was rico and minneral
• Brazil -This sand was white and brown, it was not magnetic, the size was small the texture was subangular, it was silt, it was well sorted and it was mande of minneral.
• California- This sand was black, it was not magnetic, it is small, it is rounded in texture, it is well sorted and it it made up of minnerals
• St Martin- This sand is black and white there was not magneticy, it is small, hte texture was angular, the sorting was moderate and it is composed of monneral and rock
• Bonaire- This sand is white, it was not magnetic, it was small, the texture was rounded and angular, it was very well sorted and it was composed of minneral
• Maui- This sand was orange, it was magnetic, the sadn was very small, the texture was rounded, it was very well sorted and it was made of minnerals
• Plum Island - This sand was white and orange, it was not magnetic, it was also very small, the texture was angular, it was moderate sorting and it was composed of minneral

Plum Island sand and Key West sand are the sand i liked the best. I think that they are both very different. Plum Island sand is orange and white, small, moderate sorting and made of minneral. Key west sand is small black and white  moderate sorting and it made of rocks and minnerals. These sand had simmalarietes and differences, but they were both very interesting to look at.