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Marine Log’s FERRIES 2021 conference is set to go live and in person in just over three weeks, with a full agenda and a nearly sold out venue. The event will take place November 9-10 on the New York Harbor waterfront in Jersey City, N.J., in partnership with the Passenger Vessel Association. As its theme… Read More
Dredging work has begun on Nantuxent Creek in Cumberland County, the state Department of Transportation said Wednesday. The $1.6 million project will restore channels to a safe and navigable depth and restore endangered species habitat, the DOT said in a news release. The project will dredge the State Channel in Nantuxent Creek to allow for… Read More
To help understand the role dredging can play in mitigating the effects of upstream discharges and the lost trapping capacity of Conowingo Dam, the Maryland Environmental Service (MES), in coordination with the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE), is beginning the dredging portion of the Conowingo Dredging and Innovative and Beneficial Reuse Pilot Project. Conowingo… Read More
PORT FOURCHON, Louisiana, Oct 14 (Reuters) – On Louisiana’s south coast, in a key port servicing the U.S. offshore oil industry, a huge shipyard sits idle and in tatters. Where parts of the nine-bay terminal’s roof once hung, only a tangle of twisted metal beams is now visible while a side of the building is… Read More
HONOLULU, HI (STL.News) The options available to land managers and owners of coastal properties facing serious beach erosion are limited, expensive, and unlikely to provide permanent fixes. That’s one of the conclusions of a presentation to the Board of Land and Natural Resources last Friday. Shellie Habel, a coastal geologist with the University of Hawai‘i Sea Grant… Read More
“The options available to land managers and owners of coastal properties facing serious beach erosion are limited, expensive, and unlikely to provide permanent fixes,” according to conclusions of a presentation made to the Board of Land and Natural Resources on Friday. Shellie Habel, a coastal geologist with the University of Hawai‘i Sea Grant Program, is… Read More
A proposed Lake Okeechobee management plan is still drawing concerns from state water managers and the public as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers continues to finalize what’s called the Lake Okeechobee System Operation Manual, or LOSOM. The plan will be in place until at least 2030 and will guide lake releases to the Caloosahatchee… Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $13.5 million in funding to provide critical environmental and wildlife data to support offshore wind development. In support of a joint interagency goal to develop 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030, DOE is funding four projects that will inform offshore wind siting, permitting and help protect… Read More
This morning, for the first time, I photographed dredging on the San Jacinto East Fork. It was a welcome site and one that hundreds of East Fork residents who flooded will appreciate. Three Months After Plans Unveiled It was back on July 9, 2021, that Stephen Costello, the City’s Chief Recovery Officer, unveiled the City’s… Read More
Anchor QEA Article – Designing With Nature
If another Hurricane Isabel hit the Chesapeake Bay area a few decades from now, it could affect at least a million more people and cause $6 billion more in damage than when it landed in 2003, new research suggests. By the century’s end, even storms we consider weak today will have the impact of stronger… Read More
(CNN)As a massive investment to repair roads and adapt to climate change faces an uncertain fate in Congress, a new report finds much of the country’s infrastructure is already at risk of being shut down by flooding. And as the planet heats up, the threat is expected to grow. Today, one-in-four pieces of all critical… Read More
The United States saw an unprecedented 18 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the first nine months of the year, according to scientists with NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information Not only was September 2021 quite warm, but it also brought with it devastating impacts from four of the 18 disasters: flooding from Hurricane… Read More
The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy’s Sea Year training program is again receiving unwelcome attention. Back in 2016, the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) suspended the program. This came as the academy looked to extend its efforts to address sexual assault and sexual harassment on its Kings Point, N.Y., campus to the periods where midshipmen are off… Read More
And other reasons you should care about infrastructure A complex series of railways, roads, bridges and waterways connects U.S. farmers to the rest of the word, but this system is deteriorating and threatens U.S. agriculture’s leading global position. Luckily some much-needed investments are in process, such as the Mississippi River Ship Channel Dredging Project. If… Read More