{"id":59239,"date":"2014-07-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-crmc-to-evaluate-offshore-sand-resources-for-coastal-restoration-planning\/"},"modified":"2014-07-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T00:00:00","slug":"uri-crmc-to-evaluate-offshore-sand-resources-for-coastal-restoration-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/07\/uri-crmc-to-evaluate-offshore-sand-resources-for-coastal-restoration-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站, CRMC to evaluate offshore sand resources for coastal restoration planning"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tBureau of Ocean Energy Management agreement provides $200,000<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 30, 2014 \u2013 As part of the federal government\u2019s commitment to help coastal communities recover from Hurricane Sandy, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the state of Rhode Island signed a two-year cooperative agreement this month totaling $200,000 to evaluate offshore sand resources for coastal resilience and restoration planning. The agreement will engage 溏心vlog免费B站 scientists, with guidance from the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council, in evaluating the potential sand resources available for beach restorations.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe goal is to identify offshore sand and gravel resources to offset coastal erosion,\u201d said John King, professor of oceanography at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography. \u201cWe\u2019re going to map the habitat and the sub-bottom geology of areas that we think have sand resources, and then determine the volume of material available.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nFederal scientists will assist the Rhode Island group in identifying areas to study in order to confirm previously identified resources and locate new ones.<\/p>\n


\nKing and 溏心vlog免费B站 Professor Emeritus Jon Boothroyd have already identified several areas they want to examine more closely, including a site off Matunuck where sand was deposited in glacial lakes thousands of years ago; areas in Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound where intense currents have formed large sheets of sand of unknown depth; and locations near glacial moraines south of Block Island.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThis is the beginning of much needed work to learn if offshore sand resources are a viable option for Rhode Island,\u201d said CRMC Executive Director Grover Fugate. \u201cIt will require not only the survey work we hope to conduct, but also environmental studies to determine if this material could be extracted without detriment to the environment and the fishing industry, which depends on these waters and bottom environments. We want to do this work and be prepared in advance of any need created by major storm or sea level rise so that it is done in a thoughtful and reasoned way.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAccording to Walter Cruickshank, acting director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, such activities are essential for reducing potential storm damage to the residents, economies, and infrastructure of Rhode Island\u2019s coastal areas. <\/p>\n


\nThis agreement is part of a series of partnerships between the Bureau and coastal Atlantic states using part of the $13.6 million allocated to the ocean energy agency through the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013. Since Hurricane Sandy struck in October 2012, the Bureau has worked with members of the federal government\u2019s Hurricane Sandy Task Force, state coastal planning agencies, state geological surveys and other entities to analyze the needs for coastal restoration and to develop restoration plans. <\/p>\n


\nKing said that the last step in the project will be to calculate how much sand is being eroded from Rhode Island beaches and how much sand would be needed to replace what is being lost. The 溏心vlog免费B站 scientist warns, however, that the outlook is not promising for protecting beaches over the long term.

\n\u201cWe\u2019re mostly avoiding the inevitable with a delaying action now,\u201d he said. \u201cOur beaches are already moving and migrating landward, and we\u2019re not going to be able to keep all of them going forever. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe rate of sea level rise is increasing rapidly. There\u2019s a threshold in the system that if sea level rises greater than two millimeters per year, the beaches will start to migrate. And we\u2019re already over that threshold,\u201d King added. \u201cPredictions are that sea level rise is going to reach 1.5 centimeters per year in the future. Over the next few decades, our beaches are in serious trouble.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management agreement provides $200,000 KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 30, 2014 \u2013 As part of the federal government\u2019s commitment to help coastal communities recover from Hurricane Sandy, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the state of Rhode Island signed a two-year cooperative agreement this month totaling $200,000 to evaluate offshore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}