{"id":4354,"date":"2015-09-22T10:56:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T14:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4354"},"modified":"2015-10-02T10:58:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T14:58:33","slug":"increasing-risk-of-coastal-erosion-from-el-nino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/increasing-risk-of-coastal-erosion-from-el-nino\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing risk of coastal erosion from El Ni\u00f1o<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coastal areas around the pacific will be at increased risk of erosion and flooding if a projected increase in extreme El Ni\u00f1o and La Ni\u00f1a events occurs, according to a new study. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers found that observed coastal erosion across the Pacific varies closely with El Ni\u00f1o events, independent of changes in sea-level rise. The researchers gathered data from 48 beaches between 1979 and 2012, eight of which were in the Pacific Northwest, including British Columbia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ngeo\/journal\/v8\/n10\/full\/ngeo2539.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature Geoscience<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>September 21<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ian J. Walker, Coastal Erosion and Dune Dynamics (CEDD) Laboratory, University of Victoria,\u00a0<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">British Columbia<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coastal areas around the pacific will be at increased risk of erosion and flooding if a projected increase in extreme El Ni\u00f1o and La Ni\u00f1a events occurs, according to a new study. Researchers found that observed coastal erosion across the Pacific varies closely with El Ni\u00f1o events, independent of changes in sea-level rise. The researchers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[125,2439,2451,215,1457],"class_list":["post-4354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-british-columbia","tag-earth-science","tag-earth-system","tag-environment","tag-geology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-18e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4355,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions\/4355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}