Karl F. Nordstrom is a Professor at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where he has been teaching for over 30 years. His distinguished career of research into beaches and dunes in oceans and estuarine environments includes receiving Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards (Germany) in 1999 and 2006, and the Grove Karl Gilbert Award for Excellence in Geomorphological Research in 2001. He has worked in the USA, Canada, Australia, Italy, and Germany, and has published numerous books, including Beaches and Dunes of Developed Coasts, also by Cambrid...