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Announcing 2022 Best Restored Beach Award Recipients

June 10, 2022asbpa_edbeach nourishment, beach profiles, Best Restored Beach, best restored beaches

ASBPA is proud to release our much-anticipated annual list of the nation’s best restored beaches.  The award winning projects this year are Duxbury Beach Dune Restoration Project, MA; Ocean Isle Beach Shoreline Protection Project, NC; Sodus Point Beach Project, NY; and Waikiki Beach Maintenance Project, HI.  The goal of ASBPA’s annual best restored beaches award…

National Beach Nourishment Database 2022 Update Closes June 10!

May 31, 2022asbpa_edbeach nourishment

The ASBPA National Beach Nourishment Database is an online geodatabase of national-scale statistics on U.S. communities’ beach nourishment efforts over the last century (Elko et al. 2021).  The database has been compiled over the last two decades and is updated annually by the ASBPA membership.  We are kicking-off the 2022 database update with this call…

Call for Nominations: ASBPA’s Annual Best Restored Beaches Awards

February 1, 2022asbpa_edAwards, beach nourishment, Best Restored Beach, Coastal restoration

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,…

MP O’Brien Winner, Joan Pope, and a National Conference preview podcast

September 21, 2020asbpa_edArmy Corps, beach nourishment, National Coastal Conference, Podcast, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USACE

On the ASPN flagship show, co-hosts Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham discuss the upcoming online national coastal conference, “Navigating Stormy Times“, with ASBPA Executive Director, Derek Brockbank. They discuss how a virtual conference will work, what some of the conference highlights will be, including plenary panels on how beach communities handled the pandemic this summer…

2020 Vision for Our Coasts: ASBPA names its Best Restored Beaches for 2020

May 18, 2020asbpa_web2 commentsbeach management, beach nourishment, Best Restored Beach, best restored beaches

FORT MYERS, FL – From a childhood spent building sand castles to adolescent walks on the beach to adults enjoying family time, America’s beaches are synonymous with celebrating summer. Normally, the summer beach season would be beginning in a few days. This year, with COVID-19 still rampant, many of us will have to call upon…

Coastal Economic Stimulus

April 7, 2020asbpa_edAppropriations, beach nourishment, Beneficial Use, Congress, infrastructure, natural infrastructure, Resilience

As Congress considers an infrastructure stimulus bill in response to the coronavirus pandemic, ASBPA is asking Congress to prioritize funding for coastal infrastructure whose purpose is to help tourism and increase the resilience of communities to future economic challenges from the inevitable challenges posed by sea level rise and coastal storms. See our Coronavirus Stimulus Letter…

ASBPA seeking nominations for 2020 Best Restored Beaches: Deadline extended to April 30

April 2, 2020asbpa_webbeach nourishment, Best Restored Beach, best restored beaches, coastal infrastructure

Call for Nominations: The American Shore and Beach Preservation Association’s 2020 Best Restored Beaches Award Due April 30, 2020 ASBPA is seeking nominations for the Best Restored Beaches Award to recognize beach renourishment projects.  This award honors the Best Restored Beaches in America annually to help build awareness of the value of America’s restored beaches.  The…

New report on local funding tools for beach projects

January 21, 2020asbpa_edAppropriations, beach nourishment, Dunes, federal funding, natural infrastructure, Shore & Beach

The American Shore and Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) has published a white paper explaining ways communities can fund coastal management projects, entitled “Local Funding for Coastal Projects: An Overview of Practices, Policies, and Considerations.” The paper identifies regional characteristics and local considerations communities must assess when determining how to raise revenue for beach and coastal…

Science & Technology: 2019 Year in Review

December 27, 2019asbpa_edbeach nourishment, coastal research, Resilience

We’ve had a busy and productive year in Science & Technology. Here are some highlights: The Nation’s Top 5 Coastal Management Challenges At the 2019 Coastal Conference, ASBPA Science & Technology (S&T) expanded upon the initial 2018 effort with funding from the US Geological Survey (USGS) toward a strategic evaluation of coastal management challenges. The…

What is the US Coastal Research Program? Find out on The Capitol Beach!

September 13, 2019asbpa_edbeach nourishment, coastal research, Dunes, Hurricane, Podcast, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USACE, USGS

On this episode of The Capitol Beach, Derek Brockbank interviews the three co-executive directors of the US Coastal Research Program (USCRP): Julie Rosati with US Army Corps of Engineers, Hilary Stockdon with US Geological Survey, and Nicole Elko with American Shore & Beach Preservation Association. On the podcast, you’ll hear why 11 federal agencies (from…

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