Tag Archives: Dr. Orrin Pilkey

Lowcountry in focus: the Kiawah Spit

By Celie Dailey | Published: July 30, 2014
The Coastal Conservation League, in association with GrowFood Carolina, reported on the status of Captain Sams Spit, Kiawah Island, in their recent newsletter, Lowcountry in focus: Captain Sams Spit is a 150-acre teardrop-shaped landform on the south end of Kiawah Island. (A spit is a narrow coastal land formation that is tied to the coast […]
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Orrin Pilkey speaks against the use of dredge sand on unihabited Shackleford Banks, NC

By Celie Dailey | Published: January 23, 2014
Dr. Orrin H. Pilkey was quoted in the article N.C. coastal dredging plan irks beach communities, environmentalists: “I oppose it because I’m so strongly in favor of the Park Service’s ‘let nature rip’ policy,” he said. “And what I fear, and what others like myself fear, is that the Park Service is starting to waffle […]
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Engineering Venice & reflections on Charleston

By Celie Dailey | Published: November 13, 2012
With the recent news of Venice flooded, we revisit Mary Edna’s batik, Venice, Italy, which was the cover image of A Celebration of the World’s Barrier Islands (Columbia University Press, 2003), co-authored by Orrin H. Pilkey and Mary Edna Fraser. Thinking of Venice also causes reflection on our own city, Charleston, whose flooded version was […]
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