Morrough P. O’Brien is considered by many the founder of modern coastal engineering. In his memory, ASBPA has a special M.P. O’Brien Fund that supports a lifetime achievement award to an outstanding coastal professional and provides scholarships for students pursuing a career in the coastal field. On this Giving Tuesday and through the Holiday Season,…
Elections are great for drama… the winners and losers, the big comebacks and the just falling short, the unexpected and even the unimaginable. Once the dust settles, however, you still need to govern – to get the day-to-day business of the people and the community done. There are new players or new coalitions, certainly new…
The digital collection of all the past Shore & Beach magazines (including a searchable index) from 1933 to 2016 and conference proceedings from 1927 through 1929 is now available on a flash drive or a DVD. The cost is $100 for members (or 5 for $350), $190 for non-members $250 for libraries and other institutions. …
In follow up to last week’s election, ASBPA President, Anthony P. Pratt, and Executive Director, Derek Brockbank, issued the following statement: With the U.S. election behind us and looking ahead to 2017, ASBPA anticipates some major changes with the new administration, and will try to prepare for possible fundamental changes to the way federal agencies…
When you hear the word “infrastructure,” what do you think? Probably roads, bridges, dams, sewer systems, power grids… man-made and machine-driven, the industrial veins and arteries that keep this country moving and its economy alive. But what about our natural infrastructure? Those aspects of nature that play as much (or more) of a role in…
Extreme weather events, exacerbated by climate change, have been piling up at unprecedented rates. From record-setting snowstorms to out-of-control wildfires to deadly flooding, catastrophic weather over the past two years has devastated communities across the country. What we have not seen, however, is a major hurricane. What about Matthew? For all the damage wrought by…
EVENT: ASBPA 2016 National Coastal Conference ORGANIZATION: American Shore & Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) DATES: Wednesday-Friday, Oct. 26-28, 2016 VENUE: Ocean Place Resort, 1 Ocean Blvd., Long Branch, NJ SUMMARY: ASBPA is the nation’s first organization to promote science-based policies for the preservation of coastal areas. The 2016 conference, whose theme is “Lighting the Way…
Some thoughts inspired by Hurricane Matthew: Coastal recovery and research already well under way. Almost as soon as the winds and waves subsided, coastal managers were heading to the coast to assess the damages and weigh a response. In almost every post-storm community, coastal managers are looking at the damage (or lack thereof), calculating the…
In partnership with ASBPA, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC), and the U.S. Geological Survey’s Coastal Marine Geology Program has awarded $265,672 in federal funding to directly support academic research to investigate dune management challenges on developed coasts. Each university was awarded $40,000-$50,000 for the following projects, which…
On Wednesday, the U.S. House passed H.R. 5303, the Water Resource Development Act (WRDA), which includes a number of provisions to help protect, restore, and increase the resilience of U.S. coastlines. The House and Senate will now go to conference with H.R. 5303 and S. 2848, the Senate’s WRDA, to craft a final bill to…