Despite its more serious budget problems, Nassau still does a more thorough job of monitoring beach water quality.
The industry's biggest customer is the United States government, which uses the commercial companies' services for activities like map-making, monitoring beach erosion or air pollution and reporting on crops.
'Morphostat', a novel application for monitoring beach level changes was developed to provide visual indication of areas of concern revealed from analysis against statistical parameters that is organised into tidal ladder regions.
The society was "most concerned" with water quality in north-west England, where only seven of the 38 monitored beaches were recommended by the guide this year.
The south-west, where 147 of the 196 monitored beaches were recommended this year, was the only region to increase its number of approved bathing spots.
By comparison, water quality experts who monitor beaches in Southern California become alarmed if they see viral counts reaching 1,000 per liter.
The American Littoral Society, which monitors beach and shore areas, agrees that lobsters, blue mussels, sea bass and other popular table species may gain in the short term, although they wonder how long the benefits and subway reefs themselves can last.
Here we determined how the extent of beach disturbance is linked to traffic volumes and tested the utility of image-based data acquisition to monitor beach surfaces.
The group lists Louisiana, Oregon, Texas and Washington as "beach bums" because they have limited or no monitoring of beaches and no public notification programs.
"It was a very strange storm," said Gillian Cambers, an oceanographer with the Sea Grant College Program at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez, who is working with Unesco on a project monitoring the beaches that edge the beautiful, smaller islands of the Caribbean.
