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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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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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
City of Tybee Island shares how giant ships affect the shore following case study Read More »
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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