Sustainability of Current and Future Shoreline Solutions Under Rising Sea Level Scenarios

About the Project

The goal of this project is to understand the extent of shoreline hardening and its implications on ecosystem services throughout Mobile Bay tributaries and how small scale shoreline conservation and restoration projects can be designed to maximize shoreline resilience and habitat sustainability now and in future climate scenarios.

To accomplish this goal, the team is using drone imagery and wave gauge data to classify the hydrodynamic and biological states of shorelines in small bays and coastal Alabama rivers.

Additionally, team members will evaluate the impacts of private property owner-scale shoreline management decisions on nearshore habitat value design and model the effects of alternative shoreline management options on shoreline ecosystem services now and under future sea levels using computer modeling. Finally, the learned information will be transferred to end-users via living shoreline guidebooks.

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Ashleigh Robbins, Extension Associate

ad2164@msstate.edu

(228) 546-1034

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Biloxi, MS 39532

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About Coastal Conservation and RESTORATION program

Our focus areas are broad and adapt to the current needs of stakeholders, but generally involve coastal conservation and restoration projects at local, state, regional, national, and international scales.