Beach Nourishment and Protection (1995) / Chapter Skim
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His professional activities have included service on the National Research Council's Marine Board as a board member and chair of the Committee on Information for Port and Harbor Operations; on the American Society of Civil Engineers Ocean Energy, Waterway, Port, Coastal & Ocean Division; and as a member of the Shoreline Erosion Task Force of the San Diego Association of Governments. He has also served as associate editor of the Ocean Engineering Journal; on the editorial board of the Journal of Estuarine, Coast, and Shelf Sciences; and as editor of a special edition of Shore and Beach, the journal of the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association.
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She also served as an adviser to a number of state, federal, and foreign government environmental panels and commissions, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, and the Ocean Studies Board of the National Research Council.
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Duke Professor of Geology at Duke University, founder and director of the Duke University Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, and a nationally known expert on beach processes. He has served on numerous boards and expert panels and testified before congressional committees during deliberations on a barrier islands bill.
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Weggel was involved in developing design criteria and served as technical editor for the Shore Protection Manual, the Corps' internationally recognized coastal design manual. He was also involved in many of the Corps' studies of sand movement around coastal structures and sediment budgets.
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Among others, he has served as commissioner of the California Advisory Commission on Marine and Coastal Resources; as a member of the Steering Committee of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering International Decade of Ocean Exploration and the National Science Foundation advisory panel for that program; as a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Coastal Engineering Research Board; on the National Research Council's Marine Board and its Committee on the Engineering Implications of Changes in Relative Mean Sea Level; on the Advisory Council of the Permanent Secretariat of the International Conferences on Coastal and Port Engineering in Developing Countries; as a U.S.
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