Winds blowing over a dune can move grains of sand in three main ways. What path these grains take depends on their size, although the exact size in each category can change from site to site. Think of ...

Where once there was a depression in the sand from the removal of a pavilion over a year ago due to coastal erosion, a test ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a scoopula. Then we drove 30 minutes in our rented truck from Yuma, Arizona, ...

A three-year-project to help boost sand dune-living rare beetle and toad numbers is to start later this year. Last week the ...

What can sand dunes on Earth and Mars teach us about the latter’s wind behavior and atmosphere? This is what a recently awarded NASA grant hopes to address as a PhD student at Texas A&M University ...

Along parts of the Oregon coast, the grassy dunes on the way to the beach are dominated by plants that do not belong there. A ...

Home to the Oregon coast’s infamous exploding whale incident, Florence has a lot more going for it than its most notorious ...