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INMAN, DOUGLAS

Professor of Oceanography, Emeritus

Degrees:

• B.S., San Diego State University
• Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles-Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Research Interests:

• Coastal processes: transport of sediment by winds, waves, and currents and application to coastal morphology
• Wave climate and coastal evolution
• Water quality; sediment and sorbed contaminents in runoff
• Paleocoastlines and marine archaeology

Honors and Awards:

• Guggenheim Fellow, appointed 1961
• Orbit Award for Best Scientific Teaching Film, "The Beach: A River of Sand," International Film Festival, 1967
• Award for Meritorious Research in Science (1958), and (1977), College of Sciences, San Diego State University
• Featured: "Profiles in Science," Naval Research Reviews (v. 33, n. 4, Fall, 1981)
• International Coastal Engineering Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1988
• Ocean Science Educator Award, Office of Naval Research, 1990
• Symposium honoree, "Douglas Inman: Pioneer of the Nearshore," American Shore and Beach Preservation Association, San Diego, 1995
• Joseph W. Johnson Award, California Shore and Beach Preservation Association, 1995
• Shore & Beach, special issue in honor of Douglas L. Inman (v. 64, n. 3, July 1996)
• Fellow of Geological Society of America (1960)
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1998)
• ASCE Award for outstanding contributions to the Civil Engineering Profession, American Society of Civil Engineering, Hydrology and Hydraulics Technical Group, 2000

Inman, D.L., 2008, "Highstand fans in the California borderland: Comment," Geology, v. 36, doi:10.1130/G24626C.1.

Adams, P. N., D. L. Inman, & N. E. Graham, in press 2007, “Southern California deep-water wave climate: characterization and application to coastal processes,” Journal of Coastal Research, v. , n. , p. 114-127.

Hogarth, L. J., J. Babcock, N. W. Driscoll, N. Le Dantec, J. K. Haas, D. L. Inman, & P. M. Masters, 2007, “Long-term tectonic control on Holocene shelf sedimentation offshore La Jolla, California,” Geology, v. 35, n. 3, p. 275-278.

Jenkins, S. A., D. L. Inman, M. D. Richardson, T. F. Wever & J. Wasyl, January 2007, “Scour and burial mechanics of objects in the nearshore,” IEEE Jour. Oceanic Engineering, v. 32, n. 1, p. 78-90.

Jenkins, S. A. & D. L. Inman, 2006, “Thermodynamic solutions for equilibrium beach profiles,” Jour. Geophysical Research, 111, C02003, doi:10.1029/2005JC002899.

Inman, D. L. & S. A. Jenkins, 2005, “Scour and burial of objects in shallow water,” p. 825-830 in M. Schwartz, ed., Encyclopedia of Coastal Science, Springer,Dordrecht, Netherlands, 1211 pp.

Inman, D. L. & S. A. Jenkins, 2005, “Accretion and erosion waves on beaches,” p. 1-4 in M. Schwartz, ed., Encyclopedia of Coastal Science, Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 1211 pp.

Inman, D. L. & S. A. Jenkins, 2005, “Energy and sediment budgets of the global coastal zone,” p. 408-415 in M. Schwartz, ed., Encyclopedia of Coastal Science, Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 1211 pp.

Inman, D. L., 2005, “Littoral cells,” p. 594-599 in M. Schwartz, ed., Encyclopedia of Coastal Science, Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 1211 pp.

Inman, D. L. & S. A. Jenkins, 2005, “Climate patterns in the coastal zone,” p. 243-246 in M. Schwartz, ed., Encyclopedia of Coastal Science, Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 1211 pp.

Inman, D. L., 2003, “Scripps in the 1940s: The Sverdrup Era,” Oceanography, v. 16, n. 3, p. 20-28.

Inman, D. L., 2002, “Nearshore processes,” McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 9th Edition, v. 11, p. 604-611.

Masters, P. M. & D. L. Inman, 2000, “Transport and fate of organochlorines discharged to the salt marsh at Upper Newport Bay, California, USA,” Environ. Toxicology and Chemistry, v. 19, n. 8, p. 2076-84.

Inman, D. L. & S. A. Jenkins, 1999, "Climate change and the episodicity of sediment flux of small California rivers," Jour. Geology, v. 107, n. 3, p. 251-270.

Inman, D. L., 1994, "Types of coastal zones: similarities and differences," p. 67-84 in Environmental Science in the Coastal Zone, National Research Council, Washington, D. C., 172 pp.

Inman, D. L., M. H. S. Elwany & S. A. Jenkins, 1993, "Shorerise and bar-berm profiles on ocean beaches," Jour. Geophysical Res., v. 98, n. C10, p. 18,181-199.

Inman, D. L. & R. Dolan, 1989, "The Outer Banks of North Carolina: Budget of sediment and inlet dynamics along a migrating barrier system," Jour. Coastal Research, v. 5, n. 2, p. 193-237.