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Acknowledgements I am forever indebted to the wonderful family, teachers, friends, and peers
who set me on the right path in my early years of development and helped to launch and support
me through an extremely exciting and challenging professional career. Personal thanks go to the
faculty, staff, and students of the Department of Geological Sciences at East Carolina University;
particularly all the team members (the co-researchers, technicians, and the many students) who
were absolutely crucial components of everything we made happen. I received great pleasure from
working with and guiding a multitude of graduate students through their arduous years of classes,
research projects, and thesis writing. Memories of all the blood, sweat, and tears shed on the
numerous boats, in the marshes and swamps, and especially those grueling stormy soggy groggys
will be cherished forever.
If You Would Like More Information
Barnes J (2013) North Carolina’s hurricane history, 4th edn. University of North Carolina Press,
Chapel Hill
Cumming WP (1966) North Carolina in maps. North Carolina of cultural resources. Division of
Archives and History, Raleigh
Everts CH, Battley JP, Gibson PN (1983) Shoreline Movements; Cape Henry, Virginia to Cape
Hatteras, North Carolina, 1849–1980, US Army Corps of Engineers Technical Report
CERC-83-1. US Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, DC
Kemp AC, Kegel JJ, Culver SJ, Barber DC et al (2017) An extended late Holocene relative sealevel history for North Carolina, USA. Quat Sci Rev 160:13–30
Mallinson DJ, Culver SJ, Leorri E, Mitra S et al (2018) Barrier island and estuary co-evolution
in response to Holocene climate and sea-level change: Pamlico Sound and the Outer Banks
barrier islands, North Carolina, USA. In: Moore LJ, Murray AB (eds) Barrier dynamics and
response to changing climate. Springer, Cham, pp 91–120
Pilkey OH, Neal WJ, Riggs SR (1998) The North Carolina shore and its barrier islands: restless
ribbons of sand. Duke University Press, Durham
Pilkey OH, Young R (2009) The rising sea. Island Press, Washington, DC
Riggs SR (2002) Life at the edge of North Carolina’s coastal system. In: Prioli BC (ed) Life at the
edge of the sea. Coastal Carolina Press, Wilmington
Riggs SR Ames DV (2003) Drowning of North Carolina: sea-level rise and estuarine dynamics.
NC Sea Grant Program, Raleigh, Pub. No. UNC-SG-03-04
Riggs SR, Ames DV, Culver SJ, Mallinson DJ et al (2009) Eye of a human hurricane: Pea Island,
Oregon Inlet, and Bodie Island, northern Outer Banks, North Carolina. In: Kelley JT, Young
RS, Pilkey OH (eds) Identifying America’s most vulnerable oceanfront communities: a geological perspective, Geological Society of America, Special Paper, vol 460. Geological Society
of America, Boulder, pp 43–72
Riggs SR, Ames DV, Culver SJ, Mallinson DJ (2011) The Battle for North Carolina’s Coast: evolutionary history, present crisis, and vision for the future. University of North Carolina Press,
Chapel Hill
Riggs SR, Ames DV (2017) An uncompromising environment: North Carolina’s ‘Land of Water’
coastal system. In: Crow J, Tise L (eds) New voyages to Carolina. University of North Carolina
Press, Chapel Nill, pp 14–40
Robinson PJ (2005) North Carolina weather and climate. University of North Carolina Press,
Chapel Hill
Ruddiman WF (2008) Earth’s climate: past and future, 2nd edn. WH Freeman, New York
Stick D (1958) The outer banks of North Carolina. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill
S. R. Riggs
Acknowledgements I am forever indebted to the wonderful family, teachers, friends, and peers
who set me on the right path in my early years of development and helped to launch and support
me through an extremely exciting and challenging professional career. Personal thanks go to the
faculty, staff, and students of the Department of Geological Sciences at East Carolina University;
particularly all the team members (the co-researchers, technicians, and the many students) who
were absolutely crucial components of everything we made happen. I received great pleasure from
working with and guiding a multitude of graduate students through their arduous years of classes,
research projects, and thesis writing. Memories of all the blood, sweat, and tears shed on the
numerous boats, in the marshes and swamps, and especially those grueling stormy soggy groggys
will be cherished forever.
If You Would Like More Information
Barnes J (2013) North Carolina’s hurricane history, 4th edn. University of North Carolina Press,
Chapel Hill
Cumming WP (1966) North Carolina in maps. North Carolina of cultural resources. Division of
Archives and History, Raleigh
Everts CH, Battley JP, Gibson PN (1983) Shoreline Movements; Cape Henry, Virginia to Cape
Hatteras, North Carolina, 1849–1980, US Army Corps of Engineers Technical Report
CERC-83-1. US Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, DC
Kemp AC, Kegel JJ, Culver SJ, Barber DC et al (2017) An extended late Holocene relative sealevel history for North Carolina, USA. Quat Sci Rev 160:13–30
Mallinson DJ, Culver SJ, Leorri E, Mitra S et al (2018) Barrier island and estuary co-evolution
in response to Holocene climate and sea-level change: Pamlico Sound and the Outer Banks
barrier islands, North Carolina, USA. In: Moore LJ, Murray AB (eds) Barrier dynamics and
response to changing climate. Springer, Cham, pp 91–120
Pilkey OH, Neal WJ, Riggs SR (1998) The North Carolina shore and its barrier islands: restless
ribbons of sand. Duke University Press, Durham
Pilkey OH, Young R (2009) The rising sea. Island Press, Washington, DC
Riggs SR (2002) Life at the edge of North Carolina’s coastal system. In: Prioli BC (ed) Life at the
edge of the sea. Coastal Carolina Press, Wilmington
Riggs SR Ames DV (2003) Drowning of North Carolina: sea-level rise and estuarine dynamics.
NC Sea Grant Program, Raleigh, Pub. No. UNC-SG-03-04
Riggs SR, Ames DV, Culver SJ, Mallinson DJ et al (2009) Eye of a human hurricane: Pea Island,
Oregon Inlet, and Bodie Island, northern Outer Banks, North Carolina. In: Kelley JT, Young
RS, Pilkey OH (eds) Identifying America’s most vulnerable oceanfront communities: a geological perspective, Geological Society of America, Special Paper, vol 460. Geological Society
of America, Boulder, pp 43–72
Riggs SR, Ames DV, Culver SJ, Mallinson DJ (2011) The Battle for North Carolina’s Coast: evolutionary history, present crisis, and vision for the future. University of North Carolina Press,
Chapel Hill
Riggs SR, Ames DV (2017) An uncompromising environment: North Carolina’s ‘Land of Water’
coastal system. In: Crow J, Tise L (eds) New voyages to Carolina. University of North Carolina
Press, Chapel Nill, pp 14–40
Robinson PJ (2005) North Carolina weather and climate. University of North Carolina Press,
Chapel Hill
Ruddiman WF (2008) Earth’s climate: past and future, 2nd edn. WH Freeman, New York
Stick D (1958) The outer banks of North Carolina. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill
S. R. Riggs