Training Events

Coastal Erosion on the Grand Strand:

Ecology, Economics, and Engineering

Kimbel Center, Hobcaw Barony

Wednesday, April 7, 2004

Central Partners of the North Inlet-Winyah Bay CTP are:

 SCDHEC – Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, SC Sea Grant Consortium

ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve, and the NOAA Coastal Services Center

Special thanks to our presenters and their respective institutions

for their participation in this training event and their support of the Coastal Training Program!

This event is designed to bring together municipal and county officials, planners, regulatory staff, engineers, developers, realtors, scientists, environmental groups, and invested citizens to discuss coastal erosion on the Grand Strand.  We will discuss the ecological processes and geologic features that make our shoreline so dynamic, and we will identify the socio-economic consequences of that dynamism to residents, visitors, and decision makers in the coastal zone.  We will also inventory and evaluate the regulatory and engineering tools that we have available to mitigate these consequences.

Coastal Erosion Reference Tools

   Summary of participant evaluations

Agenda

8:30-8:45     Registration

8:45-9:00     Welcome and Overview

Jeff Pollack, Coastal Training Program Coordinator

9:00-9:30     Measuring Coastal Erosion Rates on the Grand Strand

Dr. Paul Gayes, Director, Center for Marine and Wetland Studies, Coastal Carolina University

9:30-10:00   Waves, Currents, and Sediment Transport Processes: Drivers of Coastal Erosion

Dr. George Voulgaris, Department of Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina

10:00-10:30  Regulating the Coastal Zone

Bill Eiser, Staff Oceanographer, SC Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management

10:30-10:45  BREAK

10:45-11:15  Controversy, Precedents, and Exceptions

Jimmy Chandler, President and Director, South Carolina Environmental Law Project            

11:15-11:45  Engineering in the Coastal Zone: Project Planning and Implementation

Dr. Thomas White, Senior Coastal Engineer and Principal, Coastal Science and Engineering

11:45-12:30  LUNCH

12:30-1:00    The Economics of Beach Management

Craig Landry, Department of Economics, East Carolina University

1:00-2:00      Panel Discussion – What is the outlook for Grand Strand beaches?

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2:00-2:15      Evaluations                                                                                                    

2:15-4:30      Field Trip - South End of Pawleys Island

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North Inlet-Winyah Bay NERR

Mail: PO Box 1630, Georgetown, SC 29442

Ship: Hobcaw Barony, Hwy 17N, Georgetown, SC 29440

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