The 26th annual national conference on beach preservation technology

Objective:

• To present the latest in beach preservation technology and real-world practice.
• To provide a technological transfer from the scientific and engineering community to government officials who make the decisions on coastal projects and policies.

Conference Highlights:

• Two sessions devoted to the issue of hardbottom and mitigation
• An update on a project involving permeable adjustable groins
• A dredger’s perspective on regionalization of beach projects
• A sand relocation project in Miami-Dade, Florida
• Introduction to the National Environmental Policy Act for “newbies”
• Corps’ guidance on incorporating sea level rise into federal project planning
• A technical review of the Corps-FDEP Southeast Florida Sediment Assessment and Needs Determination Study (SAND)
• Project profile from the conference area: Regional sediment management for the St. Augustine, Florida, Shore Protection Project
• Tropical Storm Debby and Hurricane Isaac storm impacts

Sessions overview

• Coastal storm surge risk assessment for the U.S. Mid-Atlantic coast
• Coastal storm modeling
• Multitemporal Lidar Assessment of hurricane Ike impact and recovery along the Upper Texas Coast
• Storm-induced dune erosion: Field vs. model results
• Impacts to Southwest Florida and the Eastern Gulf Coast Panhandle Beaches from tropical storm debby and hurricane isaac
• Sustainable coastal protection and management program, Maharashtra, India
• Wave force guidance for coastal structures vulnerable to coastal storms
• Cortez groins reconstruction project feasibility study and 2012 hurricane season impacts