In Episode 21, Cameron Perry, Coastal Business Class Director at HDR and ASBPA’s First Vice President, joins the ASBPA #ShapingShoresPodcast to share how a chance encounter with a Galveston beach nourishment project set him on a 25‑year coastal career.
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Episode 21. ASBPA’s Shaping Shores with Cameron Perry
Welcome to Shaping Shores, the Centennial podcast of the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association. For nearly a hundred years, ASBPA has united people across science, policy, and practice to preserve U.S. shores and beaches.
Guests
Cameron received a Bachelor of Science in Maritime Systems Engineering from Texas A&M Galveston in 1996 and attended the Florida Institute for Technology for graduate studied. Afterwards Cameron worked as a coastal engineer in Miami at Coastal Systems International, Inc. from 1998 to 2004. He moved back to Texas in early 2004 to work for Shiner Moseley & Associates, Inc., which was acquired by HDR in 2006. In his time at HDR he has progressed from a coastal engineer, to project manager, practice lead, and now serves as their national Coastal Technical Director. Over his tenure has performed various coastal engineering services for both public and private clients, including numerical models, evaluation of coastal processes, and applied design. Projects have included beach nourishment, sediment management, inlet dredging, marsh restoration, oyster reef restoration, and shoreline protection construction located throughout the Gulf, Atlantic, Pacific and Caribbean coasts.
Nicole Elko is Executive Director of the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association and host of the Shaping Shores podcast.