TIME SERIES ANALYSES OF SHORELINE CHANGES AT THE EASTERN END OF LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK

Time series analyses of shoreline changes were conducted in Montauk, New York at the eastern end of Long Island. Photographs were taken each month at four different sites along the southern coast on Long Island from the town of Montauk to the west to Montauk Point to the east. In addition to the monthly photographs, a week-long series of daily photographs were taken during the summer and again during the winter. Both the monthly photographs and the daily photographs document the highly changeable beach environment. These time series analyses would be particularly useful to accompany the shoreline section of an introductory oceanography or coastal geology course.