This program was broadcast LIVE on September 29, 2022.
Dr. Reide Corbett, a coastal oceanographer and geochemist, ECU Integrated Coastal Programs Dean, and Executive Director of the Coastal Studies Institute, kicked-off the 2022 season of the "Science on the Sound" lecture series on September 29, 2022. In his presentation entitled “Beach Nourishment on the OBX: Addressing the what, why, and potential impacts.”,
Since the initial Nags Head beach nourishment project in 2011, the Outer Banks community has seen a growing number of projects across the beaches here. Corbett’s presentation provides some background on the use of beach nourishment as a soft engineering approach to shoreline erosion and possible ecological impacts to the beach associated with these projects.
