Nicole, 2022 | Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines

Florida beaches were already running low on sand. Then Ian and Nicole hit.

by Rob Young | Dec 12, 2022 | Beach Management, Coastal News, Florida Coastal News, Hurricanes and storms, Ian, 2022, Nicole, 2022, Policy

“I think we’re starting to discover that, despite our best efforts and wanting to throw as much money at this as possible, it has become very difficult to keep these beaches as wide as we would like to keep them,” Robert S. Young, a geology professor at Western...

The Rising Cost of Coastal Florida Living

by Rob Young | Nov 15, 2022 | Coastal News, Florida Coastal News, Ian, 2022, Nicole, 2022, Policy

This is going to get interesting: “By some estimates, there are more than 1.5 million residential condominium units in Florida, and many of them are aging. In June 2021,the Champlain Towers South, a residential high rise in Surfside, Fla., collapsed and left 98 dead....