Past morphological change in the Delaware estuary

Drivers of Historical Change in the Delaware Estuary

Lead: Taznin Naher
Counselors: Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba, Sönke Dangendorf

This project examines how human activities have reshaped the Delaware River Estuary over the past century. It focuses on documenting and quantifying historical changes in channel geometry and shoreline structure resulting from dredging, shoreline hardening, and flood-control projects. By integrating archival maps, digitized bathymetric surveys, and long-term tide-gauge records, the research aims to build a comprehensive spatial and temporal database of estuarine modification. These data provide the foundation for understanding how anthropogenic alterations influence tidal behavior and set the stage for process-based modeling and future flood hazard assessments.

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