Coastal Ocean Analytics

08/13/2018

Quoted in an article on living shoreline approach for coastal protection

Living shorelines provide erosion control while providing shoreline habitat and maintaining coastal processes.

06/20/2018

Senators and introduce the Living Shorelines Act to create grant program for shoreline protection projects

One Connecticut senator is looking to protect the state's coastal communities.

06/06/2018

Retweeted Cedar Island Enviro ():

The Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) says the beaches at Rocky Neck State Park, Silver Sands State Park and Chatfield Hollow State Park are closed to swimming due to the presence of indicator bacteria after the recent rain storms

11/15/2017

Norfolk to use Dutch sand engine approach to protect shoreline

Last month Britain was transfixed by the red sun and yellow skies that accompanied the up to 80mph blasts of Storm Ophelia as she tracked across the country. It was a useful reminder that we are now in the season of high winds, high seas and flooding.

10/04/2017

Retweeted American Beaches ():

Yes! And beaches and dunes.

“The future of coastal communities depends on healthy wetlands, reefs & floodplains to reduce flooding damage. https://t.co/LxV0E9ZVm1”

10/03/2017

Threats to Narragansett Bay marshes

The Westerly Sun is a local print and digital daily newspaper covering all local news, sports and community events in the Southern Rhode Island and Southeastern Connecticut area

10/03/2017

Beneficial use of Housatonic dredged material used to renourish beach

STRATFORD - A major dredging project will take nearly 300,000 cubic yards of clean, fine sand from the Housatonic's shallow navigation channel and move it to Connecticut's premier beachfront park. The sand is headed to Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison, as the dredging is expected to begin thi...

09/14/2017

Dutch Sand Engine concept to be applied in UK as sustainable coastal protection

Bacton Gas Terminal and residents of the surrounding Norfolk villages will benefit from Dutch experience as Royal HaskoningDHV completes the detailed design for

09/07/2017

FEMA flood maps based on current risk - don't include effects of future sea level rise https://t.co/DNF5G4EMTK

Federal maps help determine who on the coast must buy flood insurance, but many don't include the latest data. Maryland is now making its own flood maps, so homeowners can see if they're at risk.

09/07/2017

Will Houston change its development practices or become the "flood capital of the United States"? https://t.co/GnaOhW9yMN

Tropical Storm Harvey is the third major flood in southeast Texas in three years. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, flood expert Philip Bedient says the region will remain vulnerable to disasters if communities don’t rebuild with climate change in mind.

08/22/2017

Dredged material used to restore Chesapeake Bay marsh https://t.co/LRlseuW2sI

The 40-acre project demonstrates how a key part of Delmarva's habitat, its marshlands, can survive rising seas and sinking land, officials say.

08/08/2017

Retweeted Save the Sound ():

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