Publications
Publications
Warrick, J.A., Buscombe, D., Vos, K., Bryan, K., Castelle, B., Cooper, A., Harley, M.D., Jackson, D.W.T, Ludka, B.C., Masselink, G., Palmsten, M.L, Ruiz de Alegria-Arzaburu, A., Sénéchal, N., Sherwood, C.R., Short, A.D., Sogut, E., Splinter, K.D., Stephenson, W.J., Syvitski. J., Young, A.P., (In Press) Matters Arising: Coastal Shoreline Change Assessments at Global Scales. Nature Communications.
Richmond, L., Anderson, J., Archibald, J., Brown, A., Cashman, E., Chang, J., De Smet, C., Everett, Y., Graham, J. Herrera, N. Jansen, B., Kalt, J., Laird, A., Landry, L., Lipe, D., Ludka, B.C., et al. (2023) Transformative Sea-level Rise Research and Planning: Establishing a University, Tribal, and Community Partnership for a Resilient California North Coast. Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 1 (45): 67-93.
Ludka, B.C., Young, A.P., Guza, R.T., O’Reilly, W.C., Merrifield, M.A. (2022) Alongshore variability of a southern California beach, before and after nourishment. Coastal Engineering, 104223.
Merrifield, M.A., Johnson, M., Guza, R.T., Fiedler, J.W., Young, A.P., Henderson, C.S., Lange, A.M.Z., O’Reilly, W.C., Ludka, B.C., Okihiro, M., Gallien, T.W., Pappas, K., Engeman, L., Behrens, J., & Terrill, E. (2021) An early warning system for wave-driven coastal flooding at Imperial Beach, CA. Natural Hazards, 108, 2591–2612.
de Schipper, M.A., Ludka, B.C., Schlacher, T.A., Raubenheimer, B., Luijendijk, A.P. (2021) Beach nourishment has complex implications for the future of sandy shores. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2(1), 70-84.
Fiedler, J.W., Young, A.P., Ludka, B.C., O’Reilly, W.C., Henderson, C., Merrifeld, M.A., Guza, R.T. (2020) Predicting site-specific storm wave run-up. Natural Hazards, 104, 493–517.
Montaño, J., Coco, G., Antolinez, J., Beuzen, T., Bryan, K., Cagigal, L., Castelle, B., Davidson, M., Goldstein, E., Ibaceta, R., Idier, D., Ludka, B. C., et al. (2020) Blind testing of shoreline evolution models. Scientific Reports, 10, 2137.
Kalligeris, N., Smit, P., Ludka, B. C., Guza, R. T., & Gallien, T. W. (2020). Calibration and assessment of process-based numerical models for beach profile evolution in southern California. Coastal Engineering, 103650.
Ludka, B. C., Guza, R. T., O’Reilly, W. C., Merrifield, M. A., Flick, R. E., Bak, A. S., et al. (2019). Sixteen years of bathymetry and waves at San Diego beaches. Scientific Data, 6(161).
Young, A. P., Flick, R. E., Gallien, T. W., Giddings, S. N., Guza, R. T., Harvey, M., Lenain, L., Ludka, B.C., Melville, K.W., O’Reilly, W. C. (2018). Southern California coastal response to the 2015–2016 El Niño. Journal of Geophysical Research, 123(11), 3069-3083.
Ludka, B. C., Guza, R. T., & O’Reilly, W. C. (2018). Nourishment evolution and impacts at four southern California beaches: A sand volume analysis. Coastal Engineering, 136, 96-105.
Barnard, P. L., Hoover, D., Hubbard, D. M., Snyder, A., Ludka, B. C., Allan, J., … Serafin, K. A. (2017). Extreme oceanographic forcing and coastal response due to the 2015-2016 El Nino. Nature Communications, 8(14365).
Ludka, B. C., Gallien, T. W., Crosby, S. C., & Guza, R. T. (2016). Mid-El Nino erosion at nourished and unnourished Southern California beaches. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(9), 4510-4516.
Ludka, B. C., Guza, R. T., O’Reilly, W. C., & Yates, M. L. (2015). Field evidence of beach profile evolution toward equilibrium. Journal of Geophysical Research, 120(11), 7574-7597.
Cessi, P., Wolfe, C. L., & Ludka, B. C. (2010). Eastern-boundary contribution to the residual and meridional overturning circulations. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 40(9), 2075-2090.
Hunter, D. A., Elmegreen, B. G., & Ludka, B. C. (2010). Galex Ultraviolet Imaging of Dwarf Galaxies and Star Formation Rates. Astronomical Journal, 139(2), 447-475.
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