South Atlantic Living Shorelines Summit
Jacksonville, FL
Thank you for participating in the success of the South Atlantic’s first regional summit on living shorelines, hosted by the GSAA with support from EPA Region IV and The Nature Conservancy. The Summit included expert panels and discussions examining current living shorelines practices, challenges, and opportunities in the South Atlantic States, followed by a Living Shorelines Academy Workshop and site visit at the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve.
The purpose of the Summit was to share information on the management, research, regulation, and implementation of living shorelines in the South Atlantic region, building knowledge and relationships that expand the use of appropriate stabilization alternatives to traditional shoreline hardening. Researchers, regulators and policymakers, property owners and managers, planners, contractors, and non-profit organizations were all invited to attend and benefit from the expertise and networking opportunities at the Summit.
THANK YOU to all our excellent speakers and moderators!
The Summit Report is now available here
Program
The Final Program is now available.
Summit Presentations are now available.
Our generous meeting sponsors included:
Poster Submissions
Thank you to all who submitted a poster!
22 years of worldwide reef ball coastal restoration
Larry Beggs, Reef Innovations
Todd Barber, Reef Ball Foundation
James (Jim) McFarlane, James W. McFarlane’s Technology & ConsultingBlue carbon potential of living shorelines
Jenny Davis, Carolyn Currin, Colleen O’Brien, NOAA Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat ResearchJacksonville Zoo living shoreline project
Janet Herrick, Onsite Environmental Consulting, LLCEstuarine shoreline research and monitoring to inform coastal management in North Carolina
Whitney Jenkins, North Carolina Coastal Reserve and National Estuarine Research Reserve, Division of Coastal Management,
Department of Environmental QualityMonitoring trends in erosion, accretion, and shoreline change at a living shoreline reef: Oak Point, Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina
Katie Luciano, South Carolina Geological Survey
Joy Brown, Melissa Strickland, The Nature ConservancyDevelopment of CoastalResilience.org, a tool to support living shorelines implementation
Caitlin Lustic, The Nature ConservancyLiving Shorelines in Georgia
Jan M. Mackinnon and Benjamin F. Maher, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Coastal Resources DivisionEvaluating living shorelines to inform regulatory decision-making in South Carolina
Denise Sanger and Blaik Keppler, ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve, SC Department of Natural Resources, Marine Resources Research Institute
Erik Smith, North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, University of South Carolina
Peter Kingsley-Smith, SC Department of Natural Resources, Marine Resources Research Institute
Matt Slagel, SC Department of Health and Environmental ControlA GIS-based decision support tool for oyster reef habitat restoration
Seth Theuerkauf and David Eggleston, North Carolina State University, Center for Marine Science and Technology
Brandon Puckett, North Carolina Coastal Reserve and National Estuarine Research Reserve, Division of Coastal Management,
Department of Environmental QualityMicroplastics in southeastern coastal / marine US national parks
C. Anna Toline, National Park Service, Southeastern Region
Location
Day 1 – April 12, 2016
DoubleTree by Hilton Jacksonville-Riverfront
1201 Riverplace Blvd
Jacksonville, FL 32207Day 2 – April 13, 2016
Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve
505 Guana River Road
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082
Summit Organizers:
Governors’ South Atlantic Alliance
North Carolina Coastal Federation
Moffatt and Nichol
Summit Steering Committee Members:North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
The Nature Conservancy
Restore America’s Estuaries
Southeast Regional Partnership for Planning and Sustainability
North Carolina Sea Grant
Georgia Sea Grant
North Carolina State University
University of North Carolina
University of Central Florida
EPA Region IV
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
US Fish and Wildlife Service
US Army Corps of Engineers
