Development of a Natural and Nature-Based Feature Testbed for Advancing US Navy and Coastal Communit
Abstract
The Department of the Navy?s recently released Climate Action 2030 plan identifies building climate resilience and reducing climate,threats as the two primary ways to ensure navy forces, systems, and facilities can continue to operate effectively and achieve its m,ission in the face of changing climate conditions, and worsening climate impacts. The use of Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF,) for improving resilience is identified as one focus area to mitigate shoreline erosion, protect mission-critical assets, and impro,ve natural assets that are key to achieving resilient infrastructure and operations. Current barriers to the use of NNBF for coastal, resilience include overcoming concerns that NNBF are not as effective as traditional gray infrastructure, ineffective in major stor,m events, vary in performance, or require significant adaptation over time to provide sustained community and ecosystem resilience.,The perceived lack of standards and guidance for engineers, planners, and practitioners limits the wider use of NNBF for resilience., To strengthen evidence-based decision-making on the appropriate use of NNBF for coastal resilience, the establishment of a NNBF tes,tbed is proposed to pilot and monitor the effectiveness of various NNBF within the Military Influence Area of Naval Weapons Station,Earle in NJ. The proposed project would establish the testbed and initiate the collection of baseline physical and ecosystem data fo,r use in the analysis of effectiveness of NNBF techniques over time. The testbed will allow for the monitoring of NNBF as they evolv,e as natural elements of the environment providing the process-based data that are needed for establishing NNBF project outcome goal,s based on design and scale, system boundaries, and estimating trajectories of function over time. Once established, the NNBF testbe,d will advance and improve NNBF designs, techniques, and adaptation strategies through innovative research, collaboration, knowledge, sharing and practical application.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Dec 06, 2022
- Source ID
- N000142312082
Entities
People
- Thomas Herrington
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- Western Oregon University