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The Topsail Beach commissioners are considering a rezoning request for an area at the southern end of the island, immediately adjacent to New Topsail Inlet. I can’t comment on the emotional or recre...
www.linkedin.com/posts/rob-young-phd-pg-68a44339_vilano-beach-residents-say-they-found-live-activ...WATCH this if you want to understand that there are real impacts to benthic organisms as a result of dredging for beach projects. I would argue that we have...
Our Blair Tormey demonstrating the use of our Ground Penetrating Radar unit to students at Jackson County Early College.
“I can’t tell you how many times in the last 24 hours I’ve had people come up to me frustrated with the nature of the new development that’s going on Down East, where folks are filling wetlands, building in places where we know that septic systems cannot possibly be perking.”![]()
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Florence's scars heal slowly as change becomes more visible | Coastal Review
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Special report: Five years after Hurricane Florence battered and drenched Down East Carteret County, much has changed, but solutions are elusive.
We are a little surprised by the magnitude of these surge projections in some areas (6-8 feet). Sadly ironic that this is the exact region of downeast North Carolina where we held our resilience meeting last week. These folks don't need this. Please understand that these are not investment homes. These are generational communities of fishers living in very modest homes. Also, if the storm follows the western edge of the cone, there will be a direct, perpendicular hit on Bogue Banks and substantial beach erosion.
EDITORIAL from DR. ROB YOUNG - "The one major take-away from the daylong presentations is that the coastal region of the eastern seaboard and particularly Down East Carteret County is experiencing permanent changes due to sea level rise; but the region can adapt with proper planning and controls."![]()
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EDITORIAL: Down East deserves the county's support
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Residents, mostly from Down East Carteret County, gathered at the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum and Heritage Center Wednesday to review the lessons learned five years after Hurricane Florence devastated...
Sea-Level Rise Threatens To Erase Park Units
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Across the country, national park units are grappling with the likelihood that a portion of their land could become inundated and their habitats significantly altered by sea-level rise in the not-too-...
Cedar Key, FL is a community rich in history and charm. It is also the center of a growing aquaculture industry. We fear that we are about to lose much of that. I am hoping that everyone has left those keys. This is not a storm to ride out. Seriously. #PSDS #stormsurge #cera #HurricaneIdalia
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We hear quite a bit of discussion on the repercussions of evacuating an are that turns out to have little impact from a storm. Will it make folks less likely to evacuate the next time? Will we face blistering criticism (probably)? I look at it this way: the reverse is worse. If you don't evacuate and the flooding is greater than expected. Would you rather have to defend causing folks to "waste a day" or explain why too many died. I'll go with the former. here's an Op Ed I wrote defending Gov. McMaster's decision to evacuate the SC coast during Florence in 2018.
Commentary and op-eds for the Charleston SC area
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Read the latest commentary and analysis of recent Charleston and South Carolina issues from members of The Post and Courier's editorial staff.
Oral histories hold key to recording environmental change | Coastal Review
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A rising junior at UNC Chapel Hill, Tara Hinton has spent her summer listening to oral histories and researching how Down East Carteret County residents are responding to changes in the environment.
Norfolk was found to be one of the most vulnerable spots, along with Miami, New York and Charleston, South Carolina.![]()
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“What we need to be discussing is what do we do first,” Young said. “Is this the right place to start? I tend to think it might not be.”![]()
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Norfolk’s floodwall project overlooks current climate risks, critics worry
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They argue Norfolk’s money might be better spent dealing with existing flooding.
PSDS Associate Director, Andy Coburn, featured on NJ Spotlight News explains the increased costs of "beach nourishment" projects in New Jersey: With global warming, climate change, and sea level rise, we know the demand for beach nourishment will grow and costs will surely increase. ![]()
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The cost of keeping sand on NJ's beaches is rising | NJ Spotlight News
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The actual cost of beach replenishment work has spiked in recent decades, as a result of economic forces and higher demands from climate change.
Some of our beach nourishment data.![]()
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More than $2.6 billion has been spent dumping sand onto the Jersey Shore. Was it worth it?
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Is it time to try something else, or is it too late?
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As the Sea Rises, Will a Prized National Seashore Wash Away?
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore has long been one of the jewels of the U.S. parks system, as managers worked to protect beaches and marshes amid an influx of tourists. But now rising sea levels, sever...
From LeAnn Pierce, vice chair of the New Hanover County Commissioners, former mayor of Carolina Beach, and owner of Drifters Reef Hotel: "It's not only protecting homes and infrastructure, it's protecting the local economy and the local jobs in these communities," she said. "If there's no beach for the tourists to come to, they aren't going to come, and then you have a real economic disaster."![]()
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Study says buyout of threatened Outer Banks homes would be cheaper than beach nourishment
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As officials search for affordable fixes to the severe erosion woes plaguing Rodanthe, a new study asks it buyouts are the best solution.
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More than $2.6 billion has been spent dumping sand onto the Jersey Shore. Was it worth it?
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Is it time to try something else, or is it too late?
"Every storm is an opportunity to do things better," Young said. "So, when we have a big storm like Hurricane Ian that has removed a tremendous amount of infrastructure in Southwest Florida, we should be putting that infrastructure back in a way that's very thoughtful. Don't just put everything back where it was."![]()
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Regional resiliency summit kicks off with leaders hoping to better prepare for hurricane season
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Hurricane season is just four weeks away, and Thursday, local and state leaders discussed stronger ways to prepare as a region at the Tampa Bay Regional Resiliency Leadership Summit.
"At a town meeting early this year, Dare County’s manager, Bobby Outten, explained that the local government couldn’t begin to fund the type of extensive beach nourishment that would buy Rodanthe more time from the encroaching sea. But he did promise to undertake an engineering assessment so residents would know just how much it might cost to dredge offshore sediment and add a new expanse of beach."![]()
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North Carolina beach houses have fallen into the ocean. Is there a fix?
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New studies show that both beach nourishments and buyouts in the Outer Banks community of Rodanthe, N.C., would be costly. But no funding for any fix is in sight.
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Buying out threatened oceanfront homes is not a crazy idea | Coastal Review
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Dr. Rob Young, director of the Western Carolina University/Duke University Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, compares the costs of a possible buyout of 80 highly exposed properties in Rod...
"People seem to think that we can protect the entire map. Well, we can't. And if we try to, we're going to waste money that we could be spending in places that are more sustainable. And so this is what good decision-making is all about. It's like being honest about the places that are really vulnerable and hazardous, making sure we're not spending a ton of public money, just throwing it into the Gulf and spending that money in the places that can sustain the community and the economy over the long run," Young said.![]()
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Hurricane Ian: Lessons learned on how to rebuild smarter
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Experts are sounding the alarm about where we build and how we build for a future that will include rising sea levels and more powerful storms.