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Oregon’s coast is increasingly shaped by the climate crisis. Sea level rise, more severe flooding, intensifying storms, and ocean acidification are threatening our coastal communities and their ocean-based economies. Climate change is causing bluff erosion, receding shorelines, and impacts on shellfish populations. In the face of these challenges, we have tremendous opportunity to implement innovative… Read More
PHILADELPHIA– The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently announced the recipients of the FY22 pre-disaster hazard mitigation assistance grants from their Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) and Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) programs. The selections, through the two competitive grant programs, will help communities across the nation enhance resilience to climate change and extreme weather events…. Read More
A federal rule limiting agencies’ power to regulate water pollution will severely restrict protections for waters and wetlands throughout the country, but could also be subject to challenges from conservative groups that maintain the new rule exerts more federal jurisdiction than the U.S. Supreme Court intended in a May decision. With the rule published Tuesday to redefine… Read More
Interest in methanol as an alternative fuel has grown in the shipping industry, which seeks to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Below is a list of upcoming methanol bunkering-related projects by companies and ports: COMPANIES: *A.P. Moller-Maersk MAERSKb.CO Maersk received the world’s first methanol-enabled container ship in July. It has 24 more such vessels on… Read More
Business owners in Pinellas County Beach towns are raising concerns about shoreline erosion after three beach renourishment projects recently came to a halt. The renourishment projects could not move forward because of a policy issue that the Army Corps of Engineers is enforcing. The Tampa Bay Beach Chamber organized a letter campaign with about 30 local… Read More
Have you ever made your way through a marsh? Tromped through a swamp? Waded in a wetland? I have. It was soooo icky! And wet! Ewwww! I mean, I’ve seen some real prize-winners for swampiness. No wonder Manatee County wants to get rid of their marshes, bogs, and swamps. Sure, sure, sure, Florida’s wetlands filter… Read More
Climate changes over the last 20 to 30 years have impacts ranging from increased global temperatures to more severe and frequent storms. The St. Thomas harbor has not been immune to these changes as increased silt from storm runoffs have resulted in a narrowing of our entrance channel and a reduction in the depth of… Read More
The Arkansas River dredging has started to make more room for bigger barges. Officials say the project can take an estimated 10 years to complete. Source
One of the primary concerns when planning for dam removal is the impact of sediment transport on water quality, river health, and the communities that depend on healthy rivers. Sediment forms when rocks and soil weather and erode. We think of rivers as something that moves water, but just as important is its ability to… Read More
The U.S. Coast Guard’s “highest investment priority,” the $17.6 billion Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) program, faces additional delay. After blowing through a contractual delivery date of June 2023, governmental auditors are already suggesting that the new delivery estimate of late 2024, coming as Panama City-based OPC shipbuilder Eastern Shipbuilding Group inks an array of new commercial and… Read More
The restoration of Pawleys Plantation Golf & Country Club, a Jack Nicklaus design that plays along a tidal marsh, continues to progress smoothly, and the layout’s plans for an October reopening are on schedule. Founders Group International, Pawleys’ parent company, closed the course on May 22 for a comprehensive greens, bunkers, and clubhouse renovation project. The on-course work… Read More
An intensifying hurricane season — that typically hits hardest during the early fall months of September and October — has recently prompted the City of Isle of Palms to modify its easement requirements in order to facilitate a dune replenishment project between 114 and 304 Ocean Blvd. At the Aug. 22 City Council meeting, Administrator Désirée Fragoso updated IOP… Read More
In the merciless August heat, associate professor of engineering Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos scaled an incline of honeycomb-shaped concrete tubes hugging the seawall. With a team of divers, he checked to make sure that all the 18-foot units were properly stacked and stable before donning his snorkel mask to make sure they were interlocking underwater, too. The… Read More
Fishermen are being asked to watch out for two robotic sailboats that will be cruising in the Gulf of Maine starting next week. The wind and solar-powered boats, called Saildrone Voyagers, will operate at low speeds between a series of predetermined survey lines. Officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the 33-foot unmanned… Read More
Cover photo: New barriers, called stone sills, rise from the Chesapeake Bay as part of the Barren Island restoration project in Dorchester County, MD. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) It’s hard to imagine that Barren Island was once inhabited by more than a dozen farmsteads, a church, a schoolhouse and a handful of stores. Now… Read More