Category Archives: Oceans

Orrin Pilkey’s Op Ed

By Mary Edna | Published: May 28, 2020
Rain Over Charleston, 60″ x 36″ oil on canvas by Mary Edna Fraser 2020 With eighty nine flooding events in our city in 2019, sea level rise affects all of us. My boss, Orrin Pilkey, weighs in with the Post & Courier on what taking action to protect Charleston for future generations will look like. “For Charleston, […]
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King Tide photography initiative

By Celie Dailey | Published: December 18, 2017
Submit your photographs of King Tide events to be a part of DHEC’s South Carolina King Tide Initiative in 2018. New tide charts have just been released and available online and in print. DHEC’s MyCoast mobile app (iTunes, Google Play) also allows citizen scientists to document King Tide events. MyCoast links each personal qualitative experience […]
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The laws of the land and the sea could care less about property rights

By Celie Dailey | Published: October 19, 2017
Stephanie Hunt, a former student of Dr. Orrin Pilkey, published a column for the Charleston City Paper reflecting on this year’s active hurricane season and the state of coastal development in our area. Read the article here: The laws of the land and the sea could care less about property rights. Then, as now (though […]
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