John Jaeger

Associate Professor University of Florida

  • Gainesville FL

John Jaeger researches the ways in which hurricanes have impacted Florida’s coastline.

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Biography

John Jaeger researches the ways in which hurricanes have impacted Florida’s coastline. Since 2009, he has observed and documented from Kennedy Space Center the causes for shoreline retreat near critical infrastructure, noting that an increase in the frequency of major storms heightens the threat of saltwater intrusion to the launch pads.

Areas of Expertise

Coastal Erosion
Biodiversity and the Environment
Sea Level Rise

Media Appearances

Climate change already showing effects at Kennedy Space Center

UF News  online

2014-12-05

Adams and associate professor of geology John Jaeger, who have been studying Cape Canaveral’s dunes and beach since 2009, say the impacts became most apparent after Hurricane Sandy.

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Steering iceberg armadas

Science

John M. Jaeger and Amelia E. Shevenell

2020-11-06

Science is theoretically objective, but paradigms often originate from something as fundamental as field site accessibility, data density, or publication date. Such paradigms may be at the heart of an enduring paradigm in paleoceanography and paleoclimatology—that changes in cold dense water production in the North Atlantic Ocean forced millennial-scale (

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Quantifying Seasonal-to-Interannual-Scale Storm Impacts on Morphology Along a Cuspate Coast With a Hybrid Empirical Orthogonal Function Approach

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Matthew P. Conlin, et al.

2020-10-13

The direct impacts of storms on beaches have been well studied; less well understood are the controls of storms on their seasonal-interannual evolution. We apply a novel empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis to a 5-year data set of monthly subaerial beach topography at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, to extract dominant spatiotemporal topographic patterns.

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Modeling Mud: Flocs as Global Meltwater Indicators in Ice-Proximal Glacimarine Sediments

AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts

N. Greco and J. Jaeger

2020-12-01

Flocculation of fine sediment is pervasive in particle-rich nearshore hypopycnal plumes. Floc formation is seen in field studies of northern-hemisphere, meltwater-rich fjords. Few exist for Antarctica, but indicate lateral transport of fine sediment, likely as flocculated material. Subglacial meltwater discharge contains abundant fine sediment, which rapidly flocculates and settles to the seafloor along with single grains of silt and sand transported in the turbulent plume discharge.

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