John Anderson Keith A.W. Crook George Kaminsky Piers Larcombe Colin V. Murray-Wallace Frank Sansone David B. Scott Stan Riggs Asbury Sallenger Ian Shennan E. Robert Thieler John F. Wehmiller Chip Fletcher 2000 An international conference was held recently in Honolulu, Hawaii, to examine and plan for coastal sedimentary research in the United States and globally. Participants agreed that sedimentary coastal environments constitute a critical national and global resource that suffers widespread degradation due to human impacts. Moreover, human population growth and inappropriate development in the coastal zone are escalating public asset losses due to coastal hazards and placing large numbers of communities at growing risk (Figure 1). application/pdf 10.1029/00EO00125 en American Geophysical Union Coastal sedimentary research examines critical issues of national and global priority article