ASBPA proudly announces nominations are now open for the 2022 Best Restored Beaches Award. This annual award honors the Best Restored Beaches in America, helps build awareness of the value of America’s restored beaches, and celebrates the best in beach renourishment projects from coast to coast. We welcome submittals from projects on the Pacific, Atlantic,…
On The Capitol Beach, Derek Brockbank speaks with representatives from the US Army Corps of Engineers, US EPA, the State of Washington and the State of Oregon – just a few of the many members of the Lower Columbia Solutions Group, who won this year’s Robert Wiegel Coastal Project award from the ASBPA for the…
Managing a community’s coastline is more than a walk on the beach. It can mean maintaining vital wetland habitats, preparing for sea level impacts by developing innovative coastal buffers, or even reducing storm and flood impacts by recreating lost ecosystem services. Such coastal projects are vital to America’s shoreline communities and deserve recognition for the…
Enter this contest and put your coast on our cover Are you planning to go to the coast in the next month? Will you take your camera or phone? Or have you gone to the coast anytime this year? We bet you took some great photos. Were they of the marshes? The beach? The bluffs?…
Congratulations to our 2021 winners! Each year CSBPA awards two cash prizes at the California State Science Fair. The awards are made for the “Outstanding Project in Coastal Ocean Science or Engineering” to a junior high school student ($250 award) and a senior high school student ($500 award). Past recipients are listed below. 2021 Science…
CSBPA gives this award every year at our fall conference to recognize a deserving coastal scientist, planner, engineer and/or innovator that makes a significant contribution to the advancement of coastal preservation in California. Specifically, the nominee has to have: 1. worked diligently to support the many activities and concerns of CSPBA and/or 2. worked to…
2022 call for applicants for Wiegel scholarships Applications due October 14, 2022. See flyer at this link. In 2002, the California Shore and Beach Preservation Association (CSBPA) established “The Robert L. Wiegel Scholarship for Coastal Studies”, named for Bob Wiegel, Professor Emeritus of Coastal Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Annual…
$2.54 billion for coastal restoration. If that doesn’t get your attention, nothing will! On this episode of The Capitol Beach, Derek Brockbank interviews Tom Kelsch, Senior VP for the Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund (GEBF), at National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF). NFWF has a long history of funding Gulf Coast restoration, and following the BP…
The American Shore & Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) is accepting nominations for the 2019 Science, Project, and Professional Awards including the Morrough P. O’Brien Award, the Robert L. Wiegel Coastal Project Award, the Bob Dean Coastal Academic Award, and the ASBPA Member of the Year Award. Student awards include the ASBPA Student Educational Award, the…
ASBPA is announcing a new award – Best Restored Shores – to recognize the growing diversity of shoreline restoration projects that advance multiple objectives. Several key factors influenced our desire to develop a BRS Award. First and foremost, ASBPA is dedicated to preserving, protecting and enhancing our coast, both shores and beaches. ASBPA addresses current…