Summaries
Summary of Social Science Investigations:
Goal: Evaluate the degree to which current studies are providing comprehensive coverage of essential parts of the human elements in the system, priority needs for additional information (and the appropriate methods), and emergent understandings related to the primary objective of understanding/forecasting shoreline management decision making under future scenarios.
- Shoreline and Marsh Laws
- Property Owner Decision Making
- Shoreline Modification Econometric Analysis
- The Role of Marine Contractors and Agents in Shoreline Decision Making – (multisectoral)
- Shoreline Permit Database
- Locality Waterfront Parcel Data
- Marine Contractor and Shoreline Modification Database and Viewer
- Virginia Shorelines Permitted for Modification (1970-2018)
- Virginia Shoreline Characteristics, Marsh Vulnerability, and Management Options
- Shoreline Decision Modeling
Summary of Natural Science Investigations:
Goal: Evaluate capacity to answer questions regarding relative performance of ecological functions between natural marshes and living shorelines, consequences of sea level rise on cumulative shorescape functions; and needs for additional information.
- Ecological Synthesis
- Marsh Vegetation
- Carbon and Nutrient Storage in Marshes
- Fish, Crab, Shrimp, and Mussels in Marshes
- Diamondback Terrapin in Marshes
- Birds in Marshes
- Undergraduate Research Projects
- Tidal Marsh Change
- Modeling Tidal Marsh Evolution (TMM)
Graphics Credit: Kelsey Broich, Network for Engineering with Nature, UGA (2021)