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Journal Articles (Peer Reviewed)

  1. Adams, P. N., R. S. Anderson and J. Revenaugh, 2002, Microseismic Measurement of Wave Energy Delivery to a Rocky Coast, Geology, v. 30, no. 10, p. 895-898.
  2. Adams, P. N., R. L. Slingerland, and N. D. Smith, 2004, Variations in Natural Levee Morphology in Anastomosed Channel Floodplain Complexes, Geomorphology, v. 61, no.1-2, p. 127-142.
  3. Adams, P. N., C. D. Storlazzi and R. S. Anderson, 2005, Nearshore Wave-Induced Cyclical Strain of Sea Cliffs: A Possible Fatigue Mechanism, Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, v.110, No. F2.
  4. Adams, P. N., P. Ruggiero, G. C. Schoch, and G. Gelfenbaum, 2007, Intertidal Sand Body Migration Along a Megatidal Coast, Kachemak Bay, Alaska, Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, v.112, No. F2.
  5. Adams, P. N., D. L. Inman, and N. Graham, 2008, Southern California Deep-Water Wave Climate: Characterization and Application to Coastal Processes, Journal of Coastal Research, v. 24, no. 4, p. 1022-1035.
  6. Adams, P. N., N. D. Opdyke, and J. M. Jaeger, 2010, Isostatic Uplift Driven By Karstification and Sea Level Oscillation:  Modeling Landscape Evolution In North Florida, Geology, v. 38, no. 6, p. 531-534. doi: 10.1130/G30592.1
  7. Young, A. P., P. N. Adams, W. C. O’Reilly, R. E. Flick, and R. T. Guza, 2011, Coastal cliff ground motions from local ocean swell and infragravity waves in southern California, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, v.116, C09007. doi:10.1029/2011JC007175
  8. Adams, P. N., D. L. Inman, and J. L. Lovering, 2011, Effects of Climate Change and Wave Direction on Hotspots of Coastal Erosion in Southern California, Climatic Change, v. 109, Suppl. 1, pp. S211-S228. doi:10.1007/s10584-011-0317-0
  9. Pendleton, L., P. King, C. Mohn, D.G. Webster, R.K. Vaughn, and P.N. Adams, 2011, Estimating The Potential Economic Impacts Of Climate Change On Southern California Beaches, Climatic Change, v. 109, Suppl. 1, pp. S277–S298. doi:10.1007/s10584-011-0309-0
  10. Silliman, B. R., J. van de Koppel, M. W. McCoy, J. Diller, G. Kasozi, K. Earl, P. N. Adams, and Andrew R. Zimmerman, 2012, Degradation and resilience in Louisiana salt marshes after the BP–Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 109, no. 28, p. 11234–11239, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1204922109
  11. Young, A. P., R. T. Guza, P. N. Adams, W. C. O’Reilly, and R. E. Flick, 2012, Cross-shore decay of cliff top ground motions driven by local ocean swell and infragravity waves, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, Vol. 117, C06029, doi: 10.1029/2012JC007908
  12. Limber, P. W., A. B. Murray, P. N. Adams, and E. B. Goldstein, 2014, Unraveling The Dynamics That Scale Cross-Shore Headland Relief On Rocky Coastlines, Part 1: Model development, Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, DOI: 10.1002/2013JF002950
  13. Kline, S. W. g, P. N. Adams, and P. W. Limber, 2014, The Unsteady Nature of Sea Cliff Retreat Due to Mechanical Abrasion, Failure, and Comminution Feedbacks, Geomorphology, DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.03.037
  14. Barnard, P. L., M. van Ormondt, L. Erikson, J. Eshleman, C. Hapke, P. Ruggiero, P. N. Adams, and A. Foxgrover, 2014, Development of the Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS) for predicting the impact of storms on high-energy, active-margin coasts, Natural Hazards, DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1236-y
  15. Johnson, J. M., L. J. Moore, K. Ells, A. B. Murray, P. N. Adams, R. A. MacKenzie III g, and J. M. Jaeger, 2014, Recent Shifts in Coastline Change and Shoreline Stabilization Linked to Storm Climate Change, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, DOI: 10.1002/esp.3650
  16. Wilson, K. E. g, P. N. Adams, C. J. Hapke, E. E. Lentz, and O. Brenner, 2015, Application of a Bayesian Network to Forecast Barrier Island Morphodynamics, Coastal Engineering, DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2015.04.006
  17. Adams, P. N., K. Malone Keoughg, and M. Olabarrieta, 2016, Beach Morphodynamics Influenced by an Ebb-Tidal Delta on the North Florida Atlantic Coast, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, DOI: 10.1002/esp.3877
  18. Limber, P., P. N. Adams, and A. B. Murray, 2017, Modeling large-scale shoreline change caused by complex bathymetry in low-angle wave climates, Marine Geology, v. 383, pp. 55-64, DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2016.11.00
  19. Woo, H. B. g, M. Panning, P. N. Adams, and A. Dutton, 2017, Karst-Driven flexural isostasy in North-Central Florida, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 18, pp. 3327-3339, DOI: 10.1002/2017GC006934.
  20. Adams, P. N., 2018, Geomorphic origin of Merritt Island-Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA: A paleodelta of the reversed St. Johns River?, Geomorphology, v. 306, pp. 102-107, DOI:10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.01.005
  21. Paniagua-Arroyave, J. F. g, Correa, I. D., Anfuso, G., and P. N. Adams, 2018. Soft-cliff Retreat in a Tropical Coast: The Minuto de Dios Sector, Caribbean Coast of Colombia. In: R. Almar, L. P. Almeida, N. T. Viet, M. Sall (eds.), Tropical Coastal and Estuarine Dynamics. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 81.
  22. Paniagua-Arroyave, J. F. g, A. Valle- Levinson, P. N. Adams,  and S. M. Parra, 2019, Coherence between infragravity waves and ambient water motions over cape-associated shoals, Continental Shelf Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2018.12.003
  23. Paniagua-Arroyave, J. F. g, P. N. Adams, S. M. Parra and A. Valle-Levinson, 2019, Observations of surface-gravity-wave scattering and dissipation by an isolated shoal related to a cuspate foreland, Continental Shelf Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2018.12.004
  24. Paniagua-Arroyave, J. F. g, A. Valle-Levinson, S. M. Parra, and P. N. Adams, 2019, Tidal Distortions Related to Extreme Atmospheric Forcing Over the Inner Shelf, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, https://10.1029/2019JC015021
  25. Conlin M. P. g, P. N. Adams, B. Wilkinson, G. Dusek, M. Palmsten, J. Brown, 2020, SurfRCaT: A tool for remote calibration of pre-existing coastal cameras to enable their use as quantitative coastal monitoring tools, SoftwareX, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2020.100584
  26. Conlin, M. P. g, P. N. Adams, J. M. Jaeger, and R. A. Mackenzie, 2020, Quantifying Seasonal‐to‐Interannual‐Scale Storm Impacts on Morphology Along a Cuspate Coast With a Hybrid Empirical Orthogonal Function Approach, Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005617
  27. AlYousif, A., Laurel-Castillo, J.A., So, S., Adams, P., Valle-Levinson, 2021, Subinertial hydrodynamics around a cape influenced by a western boundary current, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 251, 107199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2021.107199
  28. AlYousif, A., Valle-Levinson, A., Adams, P.N., Laurel-Castillo, J.A., 2021, Tidal and subtidal hydrodynamics over ridge-swale bathymetry, Continental Shelf Research 219, 104392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2021.104392
  29. Johnson, H.A. g, Adams, P.N., Antonenko, P.D., 2021, GEOAppS: Interactive numerical models of geomorphic processes and application in a post-secondary coastal processes course, Journal of Geoscience Education 69, 15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10899995.2021.1890527
  30. Conlin, M. P. g, Adams, P. N., and Palmsten, M., 2022. On the Potential for Remote Observations of Coastal Morphodynamics from Surf-Cameras. Remote Sensing, vol. 14, no. 7. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14071706
  31. Conlin, M. P. g, Cohn, N., and P. N. Adams, 2023. Total Water Level Controls on Dune Toe Retreat Trajectory. Geomorphology, vol. 438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108826
  32. Fischman, H. S., C. W. Cromwell, J. P. Morton, R. J. M. Temmink, T. van der Heide, P. N. Adams, C. Angelini, 2024. Leveraging successional facilitation to improve restoration of foundtional dune grasses along a frequently disturbed coastline. Restoration Ecology, vol. 32, no. 7, e14207. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/rec.14207

 

Reports

  1. Inman, D. L., P. M. Masters, P. N. Adams, and L. J. Hogarth, 2005, Facing the Coastal Challenge: Past, Present, and Future Erosion and Position of the Southern California Coast. Final Report for the Kavli Institute, Oxnard, CA.
  2. Barnard, P.L., O’Reilly, W., van Ormondt, M., Elias, E., Ruggiero, P., Erikson, L.H., Hapke, C., Collins, B.D., Guza, R.T., Adams, P.N., and Thomas, J.T., 2009, The framework of a coastal hazards model; a tool for predicting the impact of severe storms: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1073, 21 p. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1073/].
  3. Adams, P. N., and D. L. Inman, 2009, Climate Change and Potential Hotspots of Coastal Erosion Along the Southern California Coast, Report to the California Energy Commission, Publication Number CEC-500-2009-022-D.
  4. Pendleton, L., P. King, C. Mohn, D. G. Webster, R. K. Vaughn, and Adams, P. N., 2009, Estimating the Potential Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Southern California Beaches, Report to the California Energy Commission, Publication Number CEC-500-2009-033-D.
  5. Acknowledged contributor to CSDMS Meeting Report: Coastal Working Group, 2009, (http://csdms.colorado.edu/mediawiki/images/MeetingReportCvill2009.pdf)
  6. Jaeger, J. M., Adams, P. N., and MacKenzie, R. A., 2010, Establishing measures and proxies of shoreline change at Cape Canaveral, Florida: Annual Report Phase 1, May 2009-May 2010, Annual Project Report Prepared for: IHA-NASA Environmental Program at KSC, 91 pp.
  7. Jaeger, J. M., Adams, P. N., MacKenzie, R. A., Kline, S., Maibauer, B., Lesnek, A., Harris-Parks, E., and Lovering, J., 2011, Monitoring Shoreline And Beach Morphologic Change At Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida: Annual Report Phase 2, Annual Project Report Prepared for: IHA-NASA Environmental Program at KSC, 107 pp.
  8. Griggs, Gary, Peter Adams, Peter Bromirski, Daniel Cayan, and Reinhard Flick, 2011, Sea Level Rise, In: California Climate Extremes Workshop Report, Ed: David W. Pierce, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA.
  9. Adams, Peter N., Douglas L. Inman, Nicholas E. Graham, Jessica L. Lovering, Adam Young, and Shaun Kline, 2012, Ocean Wave Climate Change and Associated Implications for Coastal Erosion Along the Southern California Coast, Final Project Report Prepared for: California Energy Commission Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program
  10. Adams, P. N., J. M. Jaeger, R. A. MacKenzie, and S. W. Kline, 2012, Monitoring Shoreline And Beach Morphologic Change At Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida Annual Report Phase 3, Oct. 2011-Sept. 2012, Annual Project Report Prepared for: IHA-NASA Environmental Program at KSC, 19 pp.
  11. Adams, P. N., J. M. Jaeger, R. A. MacKenzie, and S. W. Kline, 2013, Monitoring Shoreline And Beach Morphologic Change At Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida Final Report, May. 2009 – Oct. 2013, Final Project Report Prepared for: IHA-NASA Environmental Program at KSC, 26 pp.
  12. Adams, P. N., M. P. Conlin, and H. B. Woo, 2018, Preliminary Geomorphologic Assessment for Beach Mouse Habitat Restoration at Smyrna Dunes Park, Volusia County, Florida, Final Project Report Prepared for: Wildlife Foundation of Florida, Inc. and US Fish and Wildlife Service, 9 pp. (plus Appendices)
  13. Miller, D., Thetford, M., and Adams, P. N., 2019, Anastasia Island Beach Mouse Habitat Condition and Restoration Strategies to Facilitate Recovery from Hurricane Impacts – Final Report, Final Project Report Prepared for: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), 57 pp. provided in two sections.

 

Book Chapters

  1. Hapke, Cheryl J., P. N. Adams, Jonathan Allan, Andrew Ashton, Gary Griggs, Monty Hampton, Joseph Kelly, Adam Young, 2014, Sea Cliffs of the Continental USA, In: Kennedy, D. and W. Stephenson eds., Rocky Coast Geomorphology: A Global Synthesis. Geological Society of London Memoirs, v.40; p137-154. doi: 10.1144/M40.9
  2. Karanci, A., Velásquez-Montoya, L., Paniagua-Arroyave, J.F. g, Adams, P.N., and Overton, M.F., 2017, Beach Management Practices and Occupation Dynamics: An Agent-Based Modeling Study for the Coastal Town of Nags Head, NC, USA, in Botero, C.M., Cervantes, O.D., and Finkl, C.W. eds., Beach Management Tools – Concepts, Methodologies and Case Studies, Coastal Research Library, Springer International Publishing, Cham, p. 373–395.

 

Conference Proceedings

  1. Adams, P., and P. Ruggiero, 2005, Wave Energy Dissipation By Intertidal Sand Waves On A Mixed-Sediment Beach, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Coastal Dynamics, Barcelona, Spain, April 4 – 8, 2005.
  2. Ruggiero, P., P. N. Adams, and J. Warrick, 2007, Mixed sediment beach processes: Kachemak Bay, AK, Proceedings of the Coastal Sediments ’07 Conference, New Orleans, May 2007.

 

Internal Documents – Field Guides, Equipment Protocols, Software Manuals, etc.

Lovering, J. L., and P. N. Adams, 2012, WetSed User Manual, University of Florida.