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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

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

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

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

November 28th, 2022 Watch the recorded broadcast here