Jul 5, 2023 TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (WSAV) – The initiative to reduce waste from cigarette butts on the Tybee beachfront in 2022 is working to protect wildlife and keep the beach clean. “Cigarettes have always been the number one thing, but since the passage of the no smoking ordinance from June last year it has […]
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May 20th, 2023 Marisa Mecke, Savannah Morning News The Virginia Institute of Marine Science at William & Mary recently released its annual report card of sea-level rise in 32 coastal cities throughout the United States. Savannah holds the unfortunate position of third place, reaching about 1.5 feet of sea-level rise by 2050, but experiencing much of that rise earlier
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May 18, 2023 FEMA funding & plans to build a huge hurricane shelter in the works just two weeks out from the start of hurricane season. Watch the broadcast here
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April 10, 2023 In the Galapagos Islands, multi-national cooperation to save migrating animals from intense fishing pressures resulted in a new marine reserve; one fishing community in Cedar Key, Florida, managed to pivot when environmental pressures caused the oyster population to crash; experimenting with marsh and dunes to deal with sea level rise on Tybee
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March 7, 2023 – Researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) partnered with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District and the city of Tybee Island to measure vessel wakes near the island’s north shore in hopes of better understanding which ships and operating conditions are
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February 7th, 2023 – Tybee Island resident Joseph Yerchik was lounging on the north end beach near Polk Street when he heard his niece utter a profane expletive. When Yerchick turned around, his niece was already running up the shore. Then came the “smack” of a giant wave. “I was tumbling around in the water.
January 30th, 2023 Watch Recorded Broadcast Here
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December 21, 2022 – In late September 2022, dozens of researchers from NASA’s Sea Level Change Team gathered in nearby Savannah for a kind of sea-level summit: a three-day exchange of data and ideas among scientists, coastal planners, federal, state, and local agencies, and resident activists. The meeting included summaries of efforts to combat sea-level
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Jan 9, 2023 – By Matt Kempner, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Government sleuths struggle to predict which boats will cause problems It’s typically a relaxing beach scene on the northern stretches of Tybee Island, where the waves are often gentle and shells are plentiful. Perhaps a dozen times a day, a towering cargo ship slips by
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December 22, 2022 – Tybee lost 25 feet of shoreline to Hurricane Ian. What data tells us about beach erosion. Improved dune system mitigated some of storm’s effects. Nancy Guan Savannah Morning News Link available for Savannah Morning News subscribers here The Georgia coast had a near miss when Hurricane Ian tracked further east than
