ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a summary of the shoreline rates of change for various geographic regions of the United States based upon the Coastal Erosion Information System (CEIS) data base. Maps and charts best serve as supplemental information in determining historical trends in shoreline erosion. CEIS contains shoreline change data originally determined by a variety of methods. These range from highly accurate engineering surveys to very general patterns detected by comparisons of old photographs. The CEIS data bank was created from the best and most comprehensive of the existing information sets contributed by coastal scientists and engineers nationwide. CEIS is designed to provide the user with original rate-of-change data, primary sources, statistical summaries, and notes regarding special interest features for any given reach of coast. The chapter uses CEIS to generate statistical summaries of rate-of-change data for each coastal state and for reaches with similar geology and shoreline geomorphology.
