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evan (at) sediment (dot) science
ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0001-9358-1016

Current Position
Scientist, Sediment, LLC.

Previous Positions

  • Research Scientist, Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1/2019-4/2024.
  • Research Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2/2018-12/2018.
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 8/2014-2/2018.

Education
Ph.D., Earth and Ocean Science, Duke University, 2014
B.A., Geology, Colgate University, 2004

Publications (Google Scholar)

  1. Goldstein, E.B., Cohn, N. (2026). Observing Spatio-Temporal Beach Sediment Composition Using Remote Imagery and Deep Learning. In: Coelho, C., Hallin, C., Sancho, F., Silva, P.A. (eds) Coastal Dynamics 2025. CD 2025. Coastal Research Library, vol 42. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-15477-4_55
  2. Farquhar, E. B., Goldstein, E. B., Bresnahan, P. J., Settin, B., Stasiewicz, J., & Anarde, K. (2026). Detection of coastal flooding with TinyCamML: A low-cost, privacy-preserving cellular-connected camera with onboard ML. Water Resources Research, 62, e2025WR042023. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025WR042023
  3. McNamara, D., Lazarus, E., & Goldstein, E. (2023). Human–coastal coupled systems: Ten questions. Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1017/cft.2023.8
  4. Buscombe, D, P Wernette, S Fitzpatrick,  J Favela, E. B. Goldstein, N.M., Enwright, (2023),  A 1.2 Billion Pixel Human–Labeled Dataset for Data–Driven Classification of Coastal Environments, Scientific Data. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01929-2
  5. Lazarus, E.D., Williams, H. E., Goldstein, E.B. , (2022), Volume estimation from planform characteristics of washover morphology. Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100098
  6. Buscombe, D & EB Goldstein, (2022), A Reproducible and Reusable Pipeline for Segmentation of Geoscientific Imagery, Earth and Space Science, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EA002332
  7. Aldabet, S, EB Goldstein, ED Lazarus, (2022), Thresholds in road network functioning on US Atlantic and Gulf barrier islands, Earth’s Future, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002581
  8. Reeves, I. R. B., Goldstein, E. B., Moore, L.J., Zinnert, J, (2022) Exploring the impacts of shrub-overwash feedbacks in coastal barrier systems with an ecological-morphological model,  Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JF006397
  9. Buscombe D, EB Goldstein, C Sherwood, C Bodine, J Brown, J Favela, S Fitzpatrick, C Kranenburg, JR Over, A Ritchie, J Warrick, P Wernette, (2022), Human-in-the-Loop Segmentation of Earth Surface Imagery, Earth and Space Science, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA002085
  10. Goldstein EB, D Buscombe, ED Lazarus, SD Mohanty, SN Rafique, KA Anarde, AD Ashton, T Beuzen, KACastagno, N Cohn, MP Conlin, A Ellenson, M Gillen, PA Hovenga JR Over, RV Palermo, KM Ratliff, IRB Reeves, LH Sanborn, JA Straub, LA Taylor, EJ Wallace, J Warrick, P Wernette, HE Williams, (2021). Labeling post-storm coastal imagery for machine learning: Measurement of inter-rater agreement. Earth and Space Science, 8, e2021EA001896. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA001896
  11. Eidam, E.F., T Langhorst, E.B. Goldstein, M McLean, (2021), OpenOBS: Open-source, low-cost optical backscatter sensors for water quality and sediment-transport research. Limnology & Oceanography Methods, http://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10469
  12. Goldstein, E.B., A.E. Braswell, C. M. Mc Shane, (2021), Prototyping a collaborative data curation service for coastal science, Anthropocene Coasts, https://doi.org/10.1139/anc-2021-0002
  13. Hovenga, P.A., P. Ruggiero, E.B. Goldstein, S.D.. Hacker, L.J. Moore, (2021) The relative role of constructive and destructive processes in dune evolution on Cape Lookout National Seashore, North Carolina, USA, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5210
  14. Reeves, I. R. B., L.J. Moore, A.B. Murray, K. A. Anarde , EB Goldstein, (2021), Dune Dynamics Drive Discontinuous Barrier Retreat, Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092958
  15. Reeves, I. R. B., Goldstein, E. B., Anarde, K, Moore, L. J., (2021), Remote bed-level change and overwash observation with low-cost ultrasonic distance sensors, Shore & Beach. http://doi.org/10.34237/1008923
  16. Lazarus, E.D., Goldstein, E.B., Taylor, L.A., Williams, H. E., (2021), Comparing patterns of hurricane washover into built and unbuilt environments, Earth’s Future, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001818
  17. Mohanty SD, B Biggers, S Sayedahmed, N Pourebrahim, EB Goldstein, R Bunch, G Chi, F Sadri, T McCoy, A Cosby. (2021), A Multi-Modal Approach Towards Mining Social Media Data During Natural Disasters – A Case Study of Hurricane Irma, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.102032
  18. Goldstein EB, Mohanty SD, Rafique SN, Valentine J, (2020), An Active Learning Pipeline to Detect Hurricane Washover in Post-Storm Aerial Images, AI for Earth Sciences Workshop at NeurIPS 2020, https://doi.org/10.31223/X5JW23
  19. Jin, C., Coco, G., Tinoco, R.O., Perron, T., Myrow, P.M., Huppert, K.L., Friedrich, H., Goldstein, E.B., Gong, Z, (2020). Investigating the response of wave-generated ripples to changes in wave forcing, Geomorphology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107229
  20. Moretz, M., Foster, D.,Weber, J., Chowdury, R., Rafique, SN., Goldstein, EB, Mohanty, S.. (2020). `psi-collect`: A Python module for post-storm image collection and cataloging, The Journal of Open Source Software, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02075
  21. Montaño, J,  Coco,  Antolinez JAA,  Beuzen T, Bryan K,  Cagigal L,  Castelle B , Davidson M,  Goldstein EB,  Ibaceta R,  Idier D,  Ludka B,  Masoud-Ansari S,  Mendez F,  Murray AB,  Plant N,  Ratliff K, Robinet A,  Rueda A,  Sénéchal N,  Simmons J,  Splinter K, Stephens S,  Townend I,  Vitousek S, Vos K, (2020)  Blind testing of shoreline evolution models, Sci Rep 10, 2137. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59018-y
  22. Reeves, I. R. B., Moore, L. J., Goldstein, E. B., Murray, A. B., Carr, J. A., & Kirwan, M. L. (2020). Impacts of Seagrass Dynamics on the Coupled Long‐Term Evolution of Barrier‐Marsh‐Bay Systems. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005416
  23. Beuzen T, EB Goldstein, and KD Splinter, (2019) Ensemble models from machine learning: an example of wave runup and coastal dune erosion, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 2295–2309. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-2295-2019
  24. Ruggiero, P., N Cohn, B Hoonhout, E Goldstein, S de Vries, L Moore, S Hacker, and O. Durán Vinent, (2019), Simulating dune evolution on managed coastlines: Exploring management options with the Coastal Recovery from Storms Tool (CReST), Shore & Beach, 87(2), 36-43.  https://doi.org/10.34237/1008724
  25. Woods NN, BL Dows, EB Goldstein, LJ Moore, DR Young, JC Zinnert, (2019), Interaction of seed dispersal and environmental filtering affect woody encroachment patterns in coastal grassland, Ecosphere, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2818
  26. Narock TW, and EB Goldstein (2019). Quantifying the growth of preprint services hosted by the Center for Open Science, Publications 2019, 7(2), 44; https://doi.org/10.3390/publications7020044
  27. Hacker SD, KR Jay, N Cohn, EB Goldstein, P Hovenga, M Itzkin, LJ Moore, RS Mostow, EV Mullins, and P Ruggiero, (2019) Species-specific functional morphology of four US East Coast dune grasses: biogeographic implications for dune shape and coastal protection, Diversity, https://doi.org/10.3390/d11050082
  28. Jin C, G Coco, RO Tinoco, EB Goldstein, Z Gong, (2019) Laboratory experiments on the role of hysteresis, defect dynamics and initial perturbation on wave-generated ripple development, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2019.05.003
  29. Goldstein E. B., G. Coco, and N.G. Plant, (2019) A Review of Machine Learning Applications to Coastal Sediment Transport and Morphodynamics. Earth Science Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.04.022
  30. Narock T, EB Goldstein, C Jackson, A Bubeck, A Enright, J Farquharson, A Fernandez, D. Fernández-Blanco, S Girardclos, D Ibarra, S Lengger, A Mackay, V Venema, B Whitehead, JP Ampuero, (2019), Earth Science is Ready for Preprints: The First Year of EarthArXiv. Eos, 100, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EO121347.
  31. Mullins, E., L.J. Moore, E. B. Goldstein, T. Jass, J. Bruno, O. Durán Vinent, (2019), Investigating dune-building feedback at the plant level: insights from a multispecies field experiment, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4607
  32. Lazarus, ED, and EB Goldstein, (2019), Is there a bulldozer in your model?, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004957
  33. Cohn N, B Hoonhout, EB Goldstein, S de Vries, LJ Moore, O Durán Vinent, P Ruggiero, (2019), Exploring Marine and Aeolian Controls on Coastal Foredune Growth Using a Coupled Numerical Model, J. Mar. Sci. Eng., 7, 13. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse7010013
  34. Lazarus, ED, PW Limber, EB Goldstein, R. Dodd, SB Armstrong, (2018) Building back bigger in hurricane strike zones, Nature Sustainability, 1, 759–762, http://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0185-y
  35. Goldstein, E.B. and Moore, L.J. (2018), A calibration workflow for coastal dune models, Shore & Beach, Vol. 86, No. 3, p47-51 http://doi.org/10.31223/osf.io/cd87u
  36. Goldstein E. B., E. Mullins, L.J. Moore, R.G. Biel, J.K. Brown, S.D. Hacker, K.R. Jay, R.S. Mostow, P. Ruggiero, J.K. Zinnert, (2018) Literature-based latitudinal distribution and possible range shifts of two US east coast dune grass species (Uniola paniculata and Ammophila breviligulata) PeerJ 6:e4932 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4932
  37. Passarella, M., E. B. Goldstein, S. De Muro, G. Coco, (2018), The use of genetic programming to develop a predictor of swash excursion on sandy beaches. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 599-611, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-599-2018
  38. Moore, L.J, E. B. Goldstein, O. Durán Vinent, D. Walters, M. Kirwan, R. Lauzon, A.B. Murray, P. Ruggiero, (2018), The Role of Ecomorphodynamic Feedbacks and Landscape Couplings in Influencing the Response of Barriers to Changing Climate in L.J. Moore, A.B. Murray (eds.), Barrier Dynamics and Response to Changing Climate, Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68086-6_10
  39. Goldstein, E.B., L.J.  Moore, and O. Durán Vinent, (2017) Lateral vegetation growth rates exert control on coastal foredune hummockiness and coalescing time, Earth Surf. Dynam., 5, 417-427, doi:10.5194/esurf-5-417-2017
  40. Goldstein, E.B. (2017) Delayed Recognition of Geomorphology Papers in the Geological Society of America Bulletin, Progress in Physical Geography. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309133317703093
  41. Goldstein, E. B. (2017), Three reasons why Earth scientists should edit Wikipedia, Eos, 98, doi:10.1029/2017EO066827
  42. Armstrong, S., E.D. Lazarus, P.W. Limber, E.B. Goldstein, C. Thorpe, R. Ballinger,  (2016) Indications of a positive feedback between coastal development and beach nourishment, Earth’s Future, doi:10.1002/2016EF000425
  43. Goldstein, E.B., and L.J. Moore, (2016) Stability and bistability in a one-dimensional model of coastal foredune height, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 121, 964–977, doi: 10.1002/2015JF003783
  44. Murray, A.B., N.M. Gasparini, E.B. Goldstein, M. van der Wegen, (2016) Uncertainty quantification in modeling earth surface processes: It’s most applicable at one end of the spectrum of model types. Computers & Geosciences. 60, 6-16, doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2016.02.008
  45. Rogers, L.J., L.J. Moore, E.B. Goldstein, C. Hein, J. Lorenzo-Trueba, A.D. Ashton, (2015) Anthropogenic Controls on Overwash Deposition: Evidence and Consequences. JGR-Earth Surface. doi: 10.1002/2015JF003634
  46. Goldstein, E.B., Oliver AR, deVries E, Moore LJ, Jass T. (2015) Ground control point requirements for structure-from-motion derived topography in low-slope coastal environments, PeerJ Preprints, 3:e1800. doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.1444v1
  47. Goldstein, E.B., and G. Coco, (2015) Machine learning components in deterministic models: hybrid synergy in the age of data, Frontiers in Environmental Science, 3, doi:10.3389/fenvs.2015.00033
  48. Tinoco, R.O., E.B. Goldstein, G. Coco, (2015) A data-driven approach to develop physically sound predictors: Application to depth-averaged velocities on flows through submerged arrays of rigid cylinders, Water Resources Research, 51(2). doi:10.1002/2014WR016380
  49. Goldstein, E. B. and G. Coco, (2014), A machine learning approach for the prediction of settling velocity. Water Resources Research, 50(4),  doi:10.1002/2013WR015116
  50. Limber, P. W., A.B. Murray, P. N. Adams and E.B. Goldstein, (2014), Unraveling the dynamics that scale cross-shore headland amplitude on rocky coastlines, Part 1: Model Development,  JGR-Earth Surface, 119, doi: 10.1002/2013JF002950
  51. Murray, A.B., G. Coco, and E.B. Goldstein, (2014), Cause and Effect in Geomorphic Systems: Complex-Systems Perspective, Geomorphology, 214, 1-9, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.03.00
  52. Goldstein, E. B., G. Coco, A.B. Murray, and M.O. Green, (2014), Data driven components in a model of inner shelf sorted bedforms: a new hybrid model, Earth Surface Dynamics, 2, 67-82, doi:10.5194/esurf-2-67-2014
  53. Murray, A.B., E.B. Goldstein, and G. Coco, (2014), The shape of patterns to come: from initial formation to long term evolution, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 39, 62–70, doi: 10.1002/esp.3487
  54. Goldstein, E. B., G. Coco, and A.B. Murray, (2013), Prediction of Wave Ripple Characteristics using Genetic Programming, Continental Shelf Research, 71, 1-15, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2013.09.020
  55. Goldstein, E. B., A. B. Murray, and G. Coco, (2011), Sorted bedform pattern evolution: Persistence, destruction and self-organized intermittency, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L24402, doi:10.1029/2011GL049732

Published Data

  1. Goldstein, E. B., Buscombe, D., Budavi, P., Favela, J., Fitzpatrick, S., Gabbula, S. R. A. K., Ku, V., Lazarus, E. D., McCune, R., Shah, M., Sigdel, R., & Tagner, S. (2022). Segmentation Labels for Emergency Response Imagery from Hurricane Barry, Delta, Dorian, Florence, Isaias, Laura, Michael, Sally, Zeta, and Tropical Storm Gordon (Version v1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7268083
  2. Wernette, P.A., Buscombe, D.D., Favela, J., Fitzpatrick, S., and Goldstein E.B., 2022, Coast Train–Labeled imagery for training and evaluation of data-driven models for image segmentation: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P91NP87I
  3. Mohanty SD, B Biggers, S Sayedahmed, EB Goldstein, R Bunch, G Chi, F Sadri, T McCoy, A Cosby, (2020), Geolocated Tweets from Florida, USA during Hurricane Irma (2017) with Relevance Scores, https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11900325
  4. Goldstein, EB., Beuzen, T, Buscombe, D, Cohn, N, Ellenson, A, Lazarus, ED., & Williams, HE. (2020). Labels for Emergency Response Imagery from Hurricane Florence, Hurricane Michael, and Hurricane Isaias (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4272064
  5. Goldstein, E (2020): Hurricane Teddy (2020) North Carolina, USA Traffic Camera Images. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13019912
  6. Goldstein, E., & Beuzen, T.. (2020). Labels for wave-scarp interaction images (Version 1). figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12765494.v1
  7. Goldstein, E., Lazarus, E., Beuzen, T., Williams, H., Limber, P., Cohn, N., Talyor, L., Buscombe, D., Rafique, S.N., Moretz, M., Weber, J., Chowdury, R., Foster, D., Mohanty, S.. (2020). Labels for Hurricane Florence (2018) Emergency Response Imagery from NOAA (Version 1). figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11604192.v1
  8. Narock, T, E Goldstein, (2019): Center for Open Science Preprint Analysis. figshare. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8030819.v1
  9. Lazarus E, PW Limber, EB Goldstein (2018). Data for ‘Building back bigger in hurricane strike zones’. figshare. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7108763
  10. Mullins EV, T Jass, E. B. Goldstein, L. J. Moore. Transplanted grasses on Hog Island, VA 2014-2015. 2016. Transplanted grasses on Hog Island, VA 2014-2015. Environmental Data Initiative.  https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/33342ab787bf554becbaa22fa9360bfc
  11. Goldstein E.B., E. Mullins, L. Moore, R. Biel, J. Brown, S. Hacker, K. Jay, R. Mostow, P. Ruggiero, J. Zinnert. 2017. Locations of published studies focused on Uniola paniculata and Ammophila breviligulata along the US east coast (NJ-NC). Environmental Data Initiative.  http://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/bdbe9a609e0508fdb7e39bc41f75bf6f
  12. Goldstein, E., K Ells, and E. deVries, (2016), Kite-based Structure-from-Motion survey of Fort Fisher State Recreation Area beach, North Carolina, USA, 9/12/2016. figshare. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.3856248
  13. Goldstein, E., N. Cohn, and P. Ruggiero, (2016), Kite-based Structure-from-Motion survey of southern North Core Banks, North Carolina, USA, 10/24/2015. figshare. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.3466319
  14. Goldstein, E., and K. Ells, (2016), Kite-based Structure-from-Motion survey of Fort Fisher State Recreation Area beach, North Carolina, USA, 4/26/2016. figshare. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.3370648
  15. Goldstein, E., K Ells, and E. deVries, (2016), Kite-based Structure-from-Motion survey of southern Topsail Beach, North Carolina, USA, 4/14/2016. figshare. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.3364840

Published Code (more Code on GitHub)

  1. Beuzen T, & E B. Goldstein. (2020). PyWebCAT (Version v0.1.2). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3893869S.
  2. N. Rafique, E. B. Goldstein, & S. D. Mohanty. (2020). Coastal Image Labeler: 1st Production test (Version 1.0.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3886577
  3. Moretz, M., Foster, D.,Weber, J., Chowdury, R., Rafique, SN., Goldstein, EB, Mohanty, S., (2020). psi-collect: A Python module for post-storm image collection and cataloging (Version v1.0.4r2). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3687347
  4. Beuzen T & Goldstein EB. (2019). BeuzenEtAl_GP_Paper: First release of repo (Version 0.1). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3401739
  5. Narock T & Goldstein EB. (2019). COS Preprint Analysis Code, (Version 2.1). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3204815
  6. Goldstein EB. (2016). One‐dimensional impulsive model of coastal foredune height (Version 1.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3784988

Data compilations from existing literature: