Posted on October 7, 2026
At Restore America’s Estuaries’ 2026 Coastal & Estuarine Summit in San Francisco, four connections spanned across conversations.
Nature-based solutions: Living shorelines and working waterfronts support both nature and infrastructure. Our wave tank demonstrated how living shorelines reduce wave energy, while our presentation on Seattle’s waterfront showcased how habitat benches, enhanced substrates, riparian plantings, and textured seawalls bring nature-based solutions to urban infrastructure and shorelines.
Sediment and restoration: Clean dredged sediment is a valuable resource. It can help restore wetlands, including salt marshes; build nearshore habitat; and improve coastal resilience for communities.
Data and adaptive management: Innovative monitoring technologies, habitat mitigation modeling, and digital twins help practitioners track conditions, test scenarios, and adapt restoration and resilience strategies.
People and planning: Restoration and resilience is more successful when practitioners partner with communities, agencies, Tribes, ports, researchers, and others from planning through long-term monitoring and adaptive management.
