CSE’s Tim Kana and Patrick Barrineau attended Coastal Sediments 2023 (CS’23) in New Orleans this week to present work on shoreline management in New York as well as sea level rise impacts and modeling. Coastal Sediments is an international coastal…
On February 15, 2023, CSE’s Steven Traynum and Patrick Barrineau joined members of SC Beach Advocates at a SC State House press conference to support a bipartisan bill that would create a state fund to subsidize local beach nourishment projects.…
On August 16, 2022, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. (GLDD) delivered the last load for CSE’s second beach nourishment project at the Village of Buxton. The project used two dredges (Ellis Island and Liberty Island) to pump 1.2 million…
CSE and Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. (GLDD) have completed the 1 million cubic yard Avon Village beach nourishment project. The project included using two dredges (Ellis Island and Liberty Island) to nourish two and a half miles (13,200…
CSE welcomes new bookkeeper and office administrator, Chasity Corder. She brings over 15 years of experience in office management, accounting, and human resource management to the organization. Graduating from Southern Wesleyan University, Chasity earned a Bachelor of Science with a…
CSE is pleased to continue our 8-year partnership with SCDHEC-OCRM (South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management) to monitor South Carolina’s beaches through their BERM (Beach Erosion Research and Monitoring) project. As…
CSE received the 2021 Coastal Beacon Award at the North Carolina Beaches Inlets and Waterways Association (NCBIWA) annual conference in Wilmington on 4 November 2021. The award is presented annually to a member in good standing of the Association for…
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently announced two grant programs for Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) and Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC). These are funding sources all coastal communities should consider. The FMA grant program funds states, local communities,…
The IPCC’s1 sixth assessment report (AR6) was released in August 2021, and it offers some firm conclusions. With less equivocation, the United Nations panel that prepared AR6 provides the strongest evidence to date and concludes: sea levels are rising faster and…
CSE’s first nourishment events were in the 1980s with projects at Seabrook Island, Isle of Palms, and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. With each decade, we have had opportunities to restore many beaches, with volumes doubling each decade from the 1990s…
