CHAPTERS/SECTIONS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:

Chapter on Geology in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: An Access Guide

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN PROCEEDINGS:

Griggs, Gary B., Tait, James F., Scott, Katherine and Plant, Nathaniel,1991. The interaction of seawalls and beaches: four years of field monitoring, Monterey Bay, California. In Coastal Sediments'91, American Society of Civil Engineers, NY, pp. 1871-1885.

Griggs, Gary B., Tait, James F and Scott, Katherine, 1990. The impacts of shoreline protection structures on beaches along Monterey Bay, California. Proceedings of the Conference on Coastal Engineering,1990, American Society
of Civil Engineers, NY, pp. 2810-2823.

JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

Tait, James F. and Revenaugh, Justin, 1998. Source-transport inversion: an application of geophysical inverse theory to sediment transport in Monterey Bay, California, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 103, No. C1, p.1275-1284.

Griggs, Gary B., Moore, Laura J., Tait, James F., Scott, Katie, and Pembrook, Deborah, 1995. The effects of the storm waves of 1995 on beaches adjacent to a long-term seawall monitoring site in northern Monterey Bay, California.
Shore and Beach, vol. 64, no. 1, p. 34-39.

Griggs, Gary B., Tait, James F., and Corona, Wendy W., 1994. Interaction of seawalls and beaches: seven years of field monitoring, Monterey Bay, California. Invited publication, Shore and Beach, vol. 62, no.3, pp. 21-28.

Tait, James F. and Griggs, Gary B., 1990. Beach response to the presence of a seawall. Shore and Beach, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 11-28.

Griggs, Gary B. and Tait, James F., 1989. Observations of the end effects of seawalls. Shore and Beach, pp. 25-26.

Griggs, Gary B. and Tait, James F., 1988. The effects of coastal protection structures on beaches along northern Monterey Bay, California. Journal of Coastal Research, special issue no. 4, pp. 93-111.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

Tait, James F and Griggs, Gary B., 1991. Beach response to the presence of a seawall: comparison of field observations. Contract report CERC-91-1, Coastal Engineering Research Center, US Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, 63p.

Tait, James F. and Revenaugh, Justin, 1995. Sediment sourcing and transport in Monterey Bay, California: an inverse the oretical approach (abs.). In Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, vol. 76, no. 46, p.286.

Anima, Roberto J. and Tait, James F., 1994. Results of high-resolution seismic reflection profiling along the north-central California coast between Santa Cruzand Pacifica (abs.). In Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, vol. 75no. 44, p. 340.

Anima, Roberto J., Tait, James F., Griggs, Gary B., and Brown, K. M.,1993. Nearshore morphology and sedimentation using side-scanningsonar and underwater video along the central California coast (abs.). In Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, vol. 74.

CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:

Tait, James F, Revenaugh, Justin, and Griggs, Gary, 2001.  Long-term beach response to the presence of a seawall on a non-eroding beach.  Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA., November, 2001.

Tait, James F. and others, 1999. Geomorphicevolution of the Charles E. Wheeler Wildlife Sanctuary at Milford Point, CT. In Proceedings of The First Housatonic River Research Symposium: The State of the Watershed.

Tait, James F. and Revenaugh, Justin, 1994. Source-transport inversion: an application of discrete inverse theory to sediment transport (abs.). In Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, vol. 75, no. 44, p.335.

Tait, James F., Anima, Roberto J., and Griggs, Gary B., 1992. Shoreface storage and transport of littoral sediments along the central California coast (abs.). In Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, vol. 73, p. 302.

Tait, James F. and Griggs, Gary B., 1992. Shore face storage and transport of littoral sediments along a rocky coast characterized by pocket beaches (abs.). GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting, Eugene Oregon, 1992.

RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:

Determining course-grained sediment sources and dispersal patterns in Monterey Bay: an inverse theoretical approach; United State Geologic Survey, 1996.

Sediment Provenance and Dispersal Patterns in Northern Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary; United States Geologic Survey,1997.

Geomorphic Processes and Evolution of Wildlife Habitat at the Charles E. Wheeler Wildlife Sanctuary of the Housatonic River Estuary at Long Island Sound ; Connecticut State University Research Grant, 1998.

Sybil Creek Restoration: Baseline data and preliminary habitat assessment prior to restoration, C0-P.I., Long Island Sound License Plate Fund, 1998.

RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:

Wetland geomorphic processes and evolution

Structure of coastal sediment supply systems.

Impacts of structures on beaches.

Coastal erosion and large-scale coastalevolution.

Stream hydrology and fluvial sediment transport.

Application of GIS to geomorphic problems.

Geostatistics and application of discreteinverse theory to surficial processes.

CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:

Geomorphic Processes in Coastal Wetlands

Large-scale Coastal Sediment Transport Systems

Reliability of Coastal Erosion Rates

STUDENT INVOLVEMENT/COLLABORATION IN MY RESEARCH:

Wetland habitat loss and geomorphic processes:  Stephan Jonas, Mike Harris, Tim Hoffman, Dean Heidenis, Jerry Mischler, Ethan Stewart.
Coastal erosion at Cape Cod: Jennifer Cooper

MASTER'S THESES ADVISEMENT:

3 Master's Theses on Coastal Processes at the University of California, Santa Cruz

DISSERTATION TITLE:

Rocky coasts and inverse models: sediment transport and sedimentation patterns in Monterey Bay NationalMarine Sanctuary.

INSTITUTION GRANTING Ph.D.:

University of California at Santa Cruz