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…
Fellow members of the American Shore & Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) recently published a refereed article on the history of beach nourishment in the U.S. (Elko et al. 2021) in the Journal of Ocean & Coastal Management (JOCM – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964569120303136?via%3Dihub).…
The Arcadian Shores Beach Renourishment Project nears completion, and as dredging contractor, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company (GLDD) demobilizes from the site, CSE logs its first completed project for 2019. CSE has been managing this project on behalf of…
Just as the COVID-19 pandemic was shutting down much of the world in March 2020, CSE and contractor Marinex Construction (Charleston, SC) completed the Pawleys Island (SC) Beach Restoration Project. Pay surveys in April confirmed delivery of 1,132,420 cubic yards,…
CSE is currently managing the Arcadian Shores Beach Renourishment Project (USACE P/N 2018-00319), which consists of the placement of ~475,000 cubic yards (cy) of beach-quality sediment along ~6,000 linear feet (lf) of shoreline between Apache Pier and Singleton Swash, and…
This month we celebrate Diana Sangster who is retiring after nearly 35 years with Coastal Science & Engineering! Her career with us actually began in the late 1970s as the first employee of our parent company, Research Planning Institute. When…
CSE is honored to have served as engineer for this award-winning beach nourishment project. Recently, the American Shore and Beach Restoration Association awarded the Town of Southampton as one of its “Best Restored Beaches of 2018.” As a part of…
Regarding our Services During COVID-19 March 31, 2020 – We at CSE are committed to continuing to provide quality services during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. At the same time, we recognize that adjustments must be made due to the impact…
