Technical information about Crescent Beach.

• BY THE SEA - A GUIDE TO THE COASTAL ZONE OF ATLANTIC CANADA from Fisheries and Oceans Canada
• An interesting online booklet about east coast dunes and how they work can be viewed at www.ncseagrant.org/files/dune_booklet.pdf.
• Link to CoastWeb, where coastal research by the Geological Survey of Canada is presented. Information on:
  • Sea level change
  • Coastal evolution
  • Coastal processes
  • Storm impacts
  • Monitoring coastal change
  • Facts about Canada's coastline
  • Coastal mapping
  • Aerial video surveys
  • Climate change and adaptation
  • Tools and methodology
   
• NT Times Dec 1, 2002, article on Padre Island, Texas. Interesting because it discusses a beach with 800,000 vehicles on it each year (including 18 wheelers), natural gas drilling/pumping and restoration of endangered species. Talk about varied uses of a beach!
• Interim Report on Crescent Beach -- Ron Loucks, August 2002
• Sand Dunes of Nova Scotia
  Hales, W. J. 1992 Sand Dunes of Nova Scotia; Unpublished MSc thesis, Geography Department, Mcmaster University, Hamilton On.; 271 p.
• Crescent Beach Survey
  Daily use August 1 - September 7, 1970
• The Maintenance of Beaches
  Technical Report
  Institute of Environmental Studies
  Dalhousie University, Halifax
  1975
• Results of the Nova Scotia Beaches Study
  Nova Scotia Department of Lands & Forests
  Parks and Recreation Division
  March, 1986
• Recent Morphological Changes and Future Management of
  Crescent Beach, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia
  R. B. Taylor, Atlantic Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada
  April 1993
• Sand Dune Preservation on Sable Island
  Department of Natural Resources, Government of Nova Scotia

The following links were contributed by Bruce Raymond:

• The first three describe how a beach functions:
  • www.glo.state.tx.us/coastal/dunemanual/index.html  is the  Dune Protection and Improvement Manual for the Texas Gulf Coast : it describes what happens on a beach during normal and storm times and offers practical advice on enhancing dunes.
  • http://www.env.qld.gov.au/environment/coast/beaches/cb.html  tells how Australia preserves beaches with links to technical information on beach dynamics.
  • www.unesco.org/csi/pub/source/ero5.htm discusses beaches and beach protection in the Caribbean; the general principles given are applicable to Crescent Beach.
• The last two cover how some jurisdictions deal with beach and dune protection:
  • http://www.csc.noaa.gov/  gives information on coastal management, perhaps useful for those who want to dig further into policy matters.
  • http://www.smrpc.maine.org/BeachPlan/dunerule.html is the dune protection statute used in the State of Maine. Among other things, it defines what is allowed to be placed in the beach environment.