coastal sediment

SandSnap Dashboard

November 24, 2025Annie Mercercameras, coastal sediment, geodatabase, grain size

SandSnap Dashboard US Army Corps of Engineers Launch Tool Overview SandSnap is a collaborative project to engage citizen scientists, build a database of beach sand grain size, and educate the next generation about coastal processes. To understand how and why coastlines change, we must know the grain size of the sand on the beach. This...

National Beach Nourishment Database

August 26, 2025Annie Mercerbeach nourishment, coastal sediment, regional sediment management

National Beach Nourishment Database American Shore and Beach Preservation Association Launch Tool Overview The ASBPA National Beach Nourishment Database provides 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 ASBPA membership. The goal...

We should learn to value coastal sediment

June 27, 2017asbpa_webbay, coastal infrastructure, coastal research, coastal sediment, delta, San Francisco, sediment, Shore & Beach

Viewing coastal sediment (basically, sand, cobble and fine-grained material) as an asset rather than an afterthought is the focus of a recent article – making the case that how we manage sand is an issue of even greater importance now as climate change and human intervention are dramatically changing the way such sediment is needed…

A (not so) simple story of sediment in motion

April 25, 2017asbpa_webchannels, coastal research, coastal sediment, dredging, equilibrium, inlets, modeling, sediment transport, shoreline change, storms

The story of our coastlines is a tale of sediment in motion. How it moves, where it moves, why it moves – all chronicle the forces that shape our shorelines. At its heart, this is a (not so) simple tale: Waves, winds, water and weather work together (most of the time, at least) to keep…

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SandSnap Dashboard

National Beach Nourishment Database

We should learn to value coastal sediment

A (not so) simple story of sediment in motion

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