DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-0984.2001.008001038.x
© 2001 American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)

Coastal-Zone Hazard Maps and Recommendations: Eastern Puerto Rico

David M. Bush ¹, Bruce M. Richmond ² and William J. Neal ³

¹Department of Geosciences, State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA 30118
² U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA 94025
³ Department of Geology, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401

Bill Neal is a Professor of Geology, and Chair of the Geology Department at Grand Valley State University. He received a B.S. in Geology from the University of Notre Dame, and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He has conducted post-doctoral work at McMaster University, the Geological Survey of Portugal (Luso-American Fellow), and Duke University. In 1993 he was co-recipient of the American Geological Institute’s award for Outstanding Contribution to Public Understanding of Geology. Dr. Neal is co-editor and contributing author to the Living with the Shore book series, Duke University Press.

Bruce Richmond is a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Geology Program in Santa Cruz, California. He has spent the last twenty years with the USGS working on coastal geology of mid- and low-latitude sedimentary environments. He received his M.Sc. degree from Waikato University in Hamilton, New Zealand, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His current research involves examining the coastal impacts of the 1997–98 El Niño along the U.S. West Coast, and coastal hazards and beach loss in the Hawaiin Islands.

David M. Bush is Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the State University of West Georgia in Carollton, GA. Dr. Bush received his B.S. in Geology from the State University of New York, College at Oneonta, and both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Geology from Duke University. His graduate research focused on the sediments and storm processes along the northern Puerto Rico shelf and shoreline. He was a postdoctoral Research Associate with the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Duke University for four years. His current research focuses on coastal storm impacts, coastal hazards assessment, risk mapping, and property damage mitigation. He is senior author of Living with the Puerto Rico Shore, Living by the Rules of the Sea, and Living on the Edge of the Gulf: The West Florida and Alabama Coasts. At West Georgia, Dr. Bush teaches courses in risk assessment, geomorphology, and oceanography.

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