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Orrin H. Pilkey (1934-2024) Marine geologist. Orrin H. Pilkey was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Durham, North Carolina.

Full Name

Orrin Hendren Pilkey Jr.

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1934

Birth

New York County: Orrin Hendren Pilkey Jr. was born in Manhattan, New York, on September 14, 1934.

1979

Literary Work

The Beaches Are Moving: The Drowning of America's Shoreline
Duke University Press Books (1983)
0822305747 / 978-0822305743
Nonfiction written with Wallace Kaufman.

1982

Literary Work

From Currituck to Calabash: Living With North Carolina's Barrier Islands
Duke University Press
0822305488 / 978-0822305484
Nonfiction.

2004

Literary Work

How to Read a North Carolina Beach: Bubble Holes, Barking Sands, and Rippled Runnels
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press
0807855103 / 978-0807855102
Nonfiction written with Tracy Monegan Rice and William J. Neal.

2007

Literary Work

Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future
Columbia University Press
0231132123 / 978-0231132121
Nonfiction written with Linda Pilkey-Jarvis.

2009

Literary Work

The Rising Sea
Shearwater
1597261912 / 978-1597261913
Nonfiction written with Rob Young.

2011

Literary Work

The World's Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
0520268717 / 978-0520268715
Nonfiction written with William J. Neal, James Andrew Graham Cooper, and Joseph T. Kelley.

2014

Literary Work

The Last Beach
Durham, NC: Duke University Press
0822358093 / 978-0822358091
Nonfiction written with J. Andrew G. Cooper.

2016

Literary Work

Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change
New York: Columbia University Press
0231168446 / 978-0231168441
Nonfiction written with Linda Pilkey-Jarvis and Keith C. Pilkey.

2016

Literary Work

Lessons from the Sand: Family-Friendly Science Activities You Can Do On A Carolina Beach
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press
146962737X / 978-1469627373
Nonfiction written with Charles O. Pilkey.

2024

Literary Work

Escaping Nature: How to Survive Global Climate Change
Duke University Press Books
1478020660 / 978-1478020660
Nonfiction written with Charles O. Pilkey, Linda P. Pilkey-Jarvis, Norma J. Longo, Keith C. Pilkey, Fred B. Dodson, and Hannah L. Hayes.

2024

Death

Orrin H. Pilkey died at his home in Durham, North Carolina, on December 13, 2024.

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