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The project is the world’s largest experiment in coastal storm and flood defense at a time when climate change is causing seas to rise and storms to intensify. Via kiki patsch 
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As crews continue clearing roadways from mud and debris related to Tuesday's mudslide in the Montecito area, they have faced some community criticism for transporting that mud and debris t
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New land is blossoming at the mouths of the Atchafalaya River and the Wax Lake Outlet in Louisiana, bucking the trend of lost ground in this Gulf state.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Distributaries baby! And on Mardi Gras no less...
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Please join the California Coastal Sediment Management Workgroup co-chaired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and California National Resources Agency for the California Coastal Sediment Master Plan, Outreach and Plan Formulation Stakeholder Meeting 2. The meeting will be held on Thursday, July 31, 2014 from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm at the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) office (8th Floor Board Room) located at 401 B Street in San Diego, California.
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From Longboat Key north to Holmes Beach, the shore has been wrestling with storms and tidal surges, challenging both property owners and vacationers.
At Monday's Tourist Development Council meeting in Holmes Beach, Manatee County Parks and Natural Resource Department Director Charlie Hunsicker delivered an update on the beach renourishment project about to start on Anna Maria Island. If all goes as planned, they will be renourished by May of next year.
The sand comes from 4,000 feet down, deep off of the gulf floor, through pipes that carry it onto the shore. The vessels doing the work can pump the slurry from as far as nine miles out from shore to replace eroded sand.
Hunsicker said the project will cost $16 million; $10 million from the Federal Government and $6 million more from state and local taxes.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Hmmmm....permeable groins, eh? It will be interesting to see how these might work in Florida.
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The processor that makes your laptop or cell phone work was fabricated using quartz from this obscure Appalachian backwater.
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Because tests weren't done at Broad Beach, sand trucks from Ventura County can't begin rolling before September Via kiki patsch
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November 1, 2016 10:25 AM
We've all had our eye on this nourishment project.... now we'll have to wait another year to see how this plays out.
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Southern California is renowned for its beautiful beaches. The effect of sea level rise on these beaches could have grave economic consequences for the region.
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A new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will help CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) students study the effects of wildfire on the area’s ecosystem. The grant funds a collaborative research partnership between CI, UC Santa Barbara and University of Colorado Denver to systematically examine the impacts of wildfire on chaparral and watersheds. Linda O’Hirok, a lecturer in CSUCI’s Environmental Science & Resource Management program, is leading six students in the project this semester. A main focus of their investigation is Big Sycamore Canyon, which burned during the May 2013 Springs Fire that scorched 24,000 acres and threatened the CSUCI campus. They’re comparing the resilience of the recently-burned landscape with three similar sites in the region: a tributary of Matilija Creek that burned during the July 1985 Wheeler Fire, a tributary of Malibu Creek that burned in 1993, and an unburned tributary in Wildwood Canyon. “The growing danger of wildfires has increased our need to understand the way watersheds respond,” said O’Hirok. “By studying and measuring the post-fire runoff and erosion at four different sites in four different stages of recovery, we can piece together a compelling story of the short- and long-term effects of wildfire in chaparral environments. This could help us better predict dangers from erosion and flooding after wildfire and guide emergency planning.”
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Great work here by my colleage Linda O'Hiok. This highlights the value of long-term, often under- or non-funded, "unsexy" monitoring work. The decades-long monitoring of the geomorphology of this coastal stream is poised to help us better predict how and when coastal watershed will mobilize debris post burn...as soon as our winter starts...any day now...I hope!
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