January 16-17, CSE attends the South Carolina Beach Advocates 2025 Annual Meeting in Isle of Palms, SC, to present beach management updates for 2024-2025 non-federal projects. This conference brings together leaders and industry experts to engage in insightful conversations about…
CSE is currently managing a renourishment project in partnership with First Coastal Corporation and the Town of Southampton (NY) to place approximately 1.2 million cubic yards of sand along 5.6 miles of oceanfront. Southampton’s Bridgehampton and Sagaponack Beach Erosion Control…
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,…
