Tag: NCCOS
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NCCOS Helps Military with Long-term Resiliency at Coastal Installations
With coastal military installations increasingly impacted by surrounding urban areas, climate change, and sea level rise, DOD is implementing ecosystem-based management to achieve long-term resiliency at its facilities. To help protect U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina from more frequent flooding, NOAA NCCOS scientists implemented nature-based ecosystem and shoreline management practices. This…
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Flood Control Work Begins at USS North Carolina Battleship Memorial
High tides overwhelm the only access road and submerge large parts of the parking lot at USS North Carolina Battleship Memorial. NCCOS scientists have partnered with Battleship NORTH CAROLINA, providing data to help design and guide a restoration project that will preserve access to the memorial, which will elevate part of the parking lot and…
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Partner Takeover: NCCOS
Next up in our Partner Takeover series, NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science! The National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) was founded in 1999 to support NOAA’s scientific mission and coastal manadates, delivering high-quality science to coastal communities and its federal, state, academic, and public partners. Our scientists work with N-EWN partners to…
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Community science and small sensors have the potential for big impact in San Juan, Puerto Rico
An upcoming NSF-funded research project led by the University of Georgia’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems will show that small, cheap sensors can have a big impact: gathering information to allow more accurate flood modeling. Small sensors, that is, and the hard work of many dedicated researchers and community members. The project is based in…
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NOAA Recognizes Best Practices for Ecosystem Service Valuation Efforts
In a recent document on Measuring the Value of Ecosystem Services, NOAA shouted out work they found particularly impactful in the quest to adequately value the contributions of nature- including one of our newest partners, Earth Economics! “It’s common to hear people say that the value of nature and its services are priceless,” the NOAA…
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Identifying Pathways to Match Dredged Material with Drowning Marshes
Originally published here by the NOAA National Centers for Coastal and Ocean Science (NCCOS). For many coastal communities, marshes help reduce coastal flooding by absorbing wave energy and water, protecting inland infrastructure. Coastal marshes build up elevation by trapping sediment that is brought in by ocean tides. As sea levels continue to rise, intertidal marshes…
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Experts meet to discuss Wetland Restoration in Mannington Meadows, NJ
Representatives from the University of Georgia, Ducks Unlimited, USACE, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), USFWS, Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, New Jersey Conservation Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, Conserve Wildlife NJ, and NOAA on Monday, July 22 to discuss plans for the restoration of the eroded Mannington Meadows marsh complex and the ongoing restoration of…
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“Progressing Practice”: Partners host Short Course on NbS at WEDA Summit
This past week, the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (IRIS) partnered with the Western Dredging Association (WEDA) to host a short course at the 2024 Dredging Summit & Expo in Tampa, Florida. The short course, Nature-based Solutions Engineering and Construction, was organized by UGA’s Todd Bridges, as well as Jeff King from USACE’s Engineering With Nature®…
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Interdisciplinary team investigate roadblocks to natural infrastructure implementation
In a recent literature review published in Science of the Total Environment, a team that included our partners at the University of Georgia, NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and The Water Institute investigated the roadblocks and knowledge gaps in the pathway to natural infrastructure implementation in coastal regions. “Approximately 40% of the global…
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Publication examines sediment placement for restoring coastal marshes
A new ASBPA white paper from an interdisciplinary team, including our partners at Jacobs and NOAA, explores the potentially beneficial use of dredged sediment in coastal marsh restoration. Coastal marshes across the world, and even within the U.S., are an extremely diverse set of ecosystems with unique hydrology, geology, and climate. Restoration efforts must be…