This website houses the Rapid Assessment Protocol for assessing the physical and ecological performance of nature-based engineered shoreline structures. You can also access additional resources associated with the Hudson River Sustainable Shorelines Project, including demonstration site case studies along the Hudson River.
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Resources
A repository of data, publications, tools, and other products from project teams, Science Collaborative program, and partners.
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This experimental study by Ada Bersoza Hernández and Christine Angelini informs the design of more durable wooden stabilization structures in coastal environments.
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This article, published in Sustainability in 2018, characterizes the boat wake climate in Florida's Intracoastal Waterway, assesses the area's bathymetry, and anticipates the effects of experimental living shorelines (natural breakwall and oyster restoration structures) on facilitating sediment deposition and slowing vegetation retreat.
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The Buffer Options for the Bay website integrates the key findings of Great Bay Reserve's 2015 Integrated Assessment project and is designed to help agencies, non-profits, and communities working on buffers in New Hampshire.
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This paper details findings presented at the U.S.-Iran Symposium on Wetlands in March 2016 about the increasing watershed influence and hypo-salinity in Los Penasquitos Lagoon.
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This article provides a comprehensive summary of what is known about the ecological functioning of the shore zone in freshwater ecosystems.
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This article, published as part of the Hudson River Sustainable Shorelines project in 2012, reports on an effort to document the biodiversity supported by different kinds of shore zones in the Hudson River Estuary.
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-11-063.1This article, published in the Journal of Physical Oceanography in 2012, reports on an analysis of ice on tidal hydrodynamics in the Hudson River Estuary.
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This article, published in Hydrobiologia in 2014, reports on research into the ecology of wrack (organic matter that is washed onto shore) on different types of Hudson River shorelines (natural and engineered) as part of a 2010 Collaborative Research project.
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This article, produced as part of the Hudson River Sustainable Shorelines project, is a comprehensive analysis of the abundance and composition of vegetation living in riprap revetments on Hudson River shorelines.