Development of a Coastal Adaptation Monitoring and Modeling System for Navy Facility Resilience in Urban Waters
Abstract
The Department of the Navy#s recently released Climate Action 2030 plan identifies building climate resilience and reducing climatethreats as the two primary ways to ensure navy forces, systems, and facilities can continue to operate effectively and achieve its mission in the face of changing climate conditions, and worsening climate impacts. The use of Natural and Nature-Based Solutions (NNBS) for improving resilience is identified as one focus area to mitigate shoreline erosion, protect mission-critical assets, and improve natural assets that are key to achieving resilient infrastructure and operations. Although post-event analysis is beginning to show the effectiveness of NNBS in providing coastal protection and resilience, there continues to be a lack of design guidance and modeling tools to effective design NNBS projects. The lack of standards and guidance for engineers, planners, and practitioners limits the wider use of NNBS for resilience. To strengthen evidence-based decision-making on the design of NNBS the proposed project willleverage existing oyster reef structures and planning underway to install living shoreline elements adjacent to the Naval Weapons Station Earle Pier Facility in NJ. The proposed project will collect boundary condition data at the Pier, conduct ecological monitoring of habitat growth and species abundance on and adjacent to reef and living shoreline elements, capture high-resolution hydrodynamic, turbulence and water quality measurements at specific NNBS structures during focused experiments, and develop and calibrate a 3Dcoupled hydrodynamic # morphologic model simulate observed changes at the site to verify its use in assessing NNBS design strategies for regional sediment management, shore protection, beneficial use of dredged sediment, and living shorelines. It is recognized that natural systems alone are often not robust enough to prevent storm damage during extreme coastal storm events. Resilience of the built environment toextreme events will be analyzed through physical modeling studies of floating structures. The results and recommendations for resilient infrastructure will be shared at an International Workshop on Floating Structure design convened at MonmouthUniversity as part of the proposed project.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Dec 15, 2023
- Source ID
- N000142412035
Entities
People
- Thomas Herrington
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- Western Oregon University