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NOAA, BOEM Develop New Tool to Reduce Dredging Impacts to Essential ...
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To enhance coastal resilience, scientists and resource managers are employing coastal engineering strategies like beach renourishment, barrier island ...
Regional Essential Fish Habitat Geospatial Assessment and Framework for ...
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The dredging of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), and sand shoals in particular, is likely to increase in the near future because nearshore sand ...
NCCOS PROJECT - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
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Offshore sand resources, e.g., sand shoals, are increasingly being used for beach renourishment, barrier island restoration, and other uses to enhance ...
[PDF] Improved Planning to Minimize Dredging Impacts to Essential Fish Habitat
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increasingly being used for beach renourishment and barrier island restoration to enhance resiliency of coastal communities. In addition, federal ...
Researchers Evaluate Long-term Effect of Adding Sand to Dauphin Island ...
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NCCOS-sponsored research assessed the effectiveness of beach and dune nourishment on the morphological resilience of Dauphin Island, Alabama, for a ...
Restoration and Nature-Based Solutions - NCCOS - NCCOS Coastal Science ...
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Restoration and Nature-Based Solutions Coastal storms, flooding, and rising seas combined with loss of habitat and biodiversity threaten coastal ...
chris.taylor@noaa.gov Archives - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
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The demand for marine sand resources is increasing in the United States, as coastal and offshore sands are commonly used for beach renourishment and ...
Projects Archive - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
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Offshore sand resources, e.g., sand shoals, are increasingly being used for beach renourishment, barrier island restoration, and other uses to enhance ...
Coastal Ecological Assessments and Indicator Development
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We work in partnership with other federal agencies and coastal states to conduct assessments of ecological condition and potential stressor impacts ...
The Coastal Recovery from Storms Tool (CReST): Modeling Impacts of Sea ...
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We are developing a community modeling tool, based on field data, to inform impact and vulnerability assessments of dune and beach recovery following ...
New Report Evaluates Benefits of Using Dredged Sediments to Enhance ...
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Mordecai is an undeveloped island that runs parallel to the Barnegat Bay shoreline of Beach Haven, New Jersey. In addition to providing habitat for a ...
Causes and Consequences of Hypoxic Events in Low-inflow Estuaries in ...
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They receive much lower freshwater inputs than estuaries found in wetter climates with larger watersheds and can have their openings (or mouths) ...
Understanding Processes Driving Sand Dune Erosion and Creation on an ...
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This information can then be used to inform dune management decisions, like beach nourishment. The study used ten airborne lidar datasets collected ...
Beach Width Provides Greatest Protection Against Flooding, Erosion ...
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A recent NOAA-supported study suggests that greater protection from erosion and flooding is provided by a wide beach rather than the height or width ...
randy.clark@noaa.gov Archives - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
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Offshore sand resources, e.g., sand shoals, are increasingly being used for beach renourishment, barrier island restoration, and other uses to enhance ...
Atlantic Ocean Archives - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
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North Carolina has some of the best conditions to support offshore wind energy in the Southeast U.S. Three wind energy areas (WEA) identified by the ...
felix.martinez@noaa.gov Archives - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
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Offshore sand resources, e.g., sand shoals, are increasingly being used for beach renourishment, barrier island restoration, and other uses to enhance ...
Shoreline Hardening and Development Hurts Shorebirds and Waterfowl
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A new NCCOS-sponsored study shows that using artificial structures to protect coastal land and property from the sea can harm water birds. The ...
james.morris@noaa.gov Archives - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
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