This could be a story about the privilege of co-hosting Duke professor Orrin Pilkey as he toured our barrier island coast last month.  I could have relayed his urgent and fascinating take on islands like ours, because Dr. Pilkey has visited most of the 2200 barrier islands on our planet. And you would have been interested in his findings, that almost every single one is thinning on both front and back sides. “I have come to think of islands as … Continue