The US Corps of Army Engineers will undertake another monitoring project in March of 2025 to follow up on their Ship Wake Study of 2021. They will deploy equipment on the north end of the island for three weeks as part of a larger project to gather data on ship wake that impact not only […]
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The City of Tybee Island, Georgia, entered a contract with Georgia Southern University in 2020 to monitor the success of a half mile long, eight-foot-tall restored dune. Learn More
Georgia Southern University evaluates coastal resilience on Tybee Island Read More »
To aid with natural sediment accumulation and increase storm protection, Tybee Island constructed a half-mile long, eight-foot-tall dune and vegetated it with six native dune species in 2020. The goal of this contract with the City of Tybee Island and researchers at Georgia Southern University was to evaluate the success of this restored dune by
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TYBEE ISLAND, October 2024 — As a younger man, Bret Bell lived two blocks from Tybee Island’s beach and grew to know the nuances of its gently curving shoreline through his almost daily walks. He lost that familiarity, though, when he moved to Savannah two decades ago. He started a family and spent little time
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The beach is showing severe erosion at the traditional points of the island following the recent period of sustained strong northeasterly winds. Since the beach and dunes were nourished in 2019, the City has been monitoring the erosion in partnership with UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SKIO). Since March of 2020, SKIO has flown a
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May 13th, 2024 This serves as a notification from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources of the issuance of a Letter of Permission (LOP) to Manomet to install temporary signage on Tybee Island and at Gould’s Inlet on St. Simons Island. The temporary project will begin no sooner than 15 days after the date of
Evaluating Best Practices in Dune Restoration: Vegetation Research and Monitoring on Tybee Island, GA Tybee Island is home to Georgia’s most visited beach, but it has increasingly felt the effects of climate change and sea level rise. For years, Tybee has nourished its beaches with dredged sand, and in 2020 Tybee constructed an entirely new
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November 9th, 2023 The four-wheeler speeds down the deserted beach. It’s about 9:30 p.m. on a nearly moonless July night on the island of Wassaw—a 3-mile-wide piece of land 14 miles southeast of Savannah, Georgia. From the driver’s seat, Kris Williams Carroll scans the area ahead that’s lit through red filters on the Kawasaki’s headlights.
August 6th, 2023 – CITRA’s PI, Dr. Felix Santiago-Collazo, and the summer intern from IRIS, Erin Gavin, went to Tybee Island in Georgia and deployed new monitoring equipment. They installed three new groundwater well loggers, a complete meteorological station, and a soil moisture sensor. Now the team can thoroughly investigate the relationship between groundwater, tides,
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August 2, 2023 AILSA CHANG, HOST: Communities nationwide are trying to protect themselves from the effects of climate change. They’re shoring up coastlines, they’re making roads higher. And all of that is expensive. Now two new laws aim to help with tens of billions of federal dollars. But as WABE’s Emily Jones reports, that money
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