National Conference
on Beach Preservation Technology
February 4-6, 2015
Clearwater Beach
Marriott on Sand Key
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015
OPENING SESSION
1:00 p.m.
Welcome
1:10 p.m.
An Overview
of Pinellas County’s Nourished Beaches and their Performance
John
Bishop, Ph.D. and Andrew Squires, Pinellas County, FL and Ping Wang, Ph.D.,
Coastal Research Laboratory, Department of Geology, University of South
Florida, Tampa, FL
1:35 p.m.
The Port Everglades Sand Bypass
Project: An Important Future Sand Source for SE Florida Beaches
Christopher
Creed, P.E. and Steven Howard, P.E., Olsen Associates, Inc., Jacksonville, FL
and Nicole Sharp, P.E., Broward County, FL
2:00 p.m.
Keith Spring and Anne McCarthy, CSA Ocean Sciences Inc.,
Stuart, FL
2:25 p.m.
Exhibitor Recognition
Tyler Tracz, PSM, Degrove Surveyors, Inc., Jacksonville, FL
2:30 p.m.
Professional Exchange Break
2:55 p.m.
Fate
of Fines Study: Sediment Loss During the Hydraulic
Dredging Process
Jase Ousley, P.G., U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers, Jacksonville District, FL and Jennifer Coor,
Ph.D., Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Water
Resource Management, Tallahassee, FL
3:20 p.m.
Results from the Turbidity Monitoring
Working Group
Martin Seeling,
PWS, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Water Resource
Management, Tallahassee, FL
3:55 p.m.
The Reality of Mixing Zone
Requirements
Tara
Brenner, P.G., Thomas Pierro, P.E., and Lauren Floyd, CB&I Coastal Planning & Engineering, Inc., Boca Raton,
FL
4:20 p.m.
Panel and Audience Discussion
4:45 p.m.
Improving
Florida’s Beaches: USFWS and USACE Partnership Under 7(A)(1)
of the Endangered Species Act
Aubree Hershorin, Ph.D. and Jase Ousley, P.G., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, FL and Ann Marie Lauritsen, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Saint
Petersburg, FL
5:10 p.m.
An
Update on the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s Hurricane Sandy Response
Initiatives
Jennifer
Culbertson, Ph.D., Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Headquarters, Department
of the Interior, Herndon, VA
5:35 p.m.
Adjourn
Thursday, February 5, 2015
SESSION A
8:05 a.m.
UMAM Updates and Progress of Rule
Development Process
Lainie Edwards, Ph.D., Florida Department of
Environmental Protection, Division of Water Resource Management, Tallahassee,
FL
8:30 a.m.
The
Value of Hard Bottom and Hard Bottom Monitoring
Eric Summa, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville
District, FL
8:55 a.m.
Hardbottom Monitoring Standard Operating Procedures for Beach Nourishment Projects
Lainie Edwards, Ph.D., Florida Department of
Environmental Protection, Division of Water Resource Management, Tallahassee,
FL
9:20 a.m.
Kimberly Colstad, Coastal Tech, a GEC company, Vero Beach, FL, and Kris Thoemke, Ph.D., Coastal
Engineering Consultants, Inc., Naples, FL
9:45 a.m.
Panel and Audience Discussion
10:10 a.m.
Professional Exchange Break
SESSION B
8:05 a.m.
Rupert Forester-Bennett, Pelydryn,
Exeter, UK
8:30 a.m.
Planes, Boats and Booties – Sea
Bright to Manasquan Beach Profile and Groin Surveys
Tim Cawood, PLS, McKim &
Creed, Wilmington, NC
8:55 a.m.
Detailed Visualization of Project
Volume Changes
Patrick
Snyder, P.E. and Albert Browder, Ph.D., P.E., Olsen Associates, Inc.,
Jacksonville, FL
9:20 a.m.
Vulnerability
of Indian River County’s Coast to Episodic Storm Events
David
Swigler, P.E., Gordon Thomson, P.E., and Julien Devisse,
CB&I Coastal Planning &
Engineering, Inc., Boca Raton, FL and James Gray, Indian River County, FL
9:45 a.m.
2014 Anna
Maria Island Beach Nourishment Projects Construction and Post-Construction
Monitoring
Michelle
Pfeiffer, P.E. and Thomas Pierro, P.E., CB&I Coastal Planning & Engineering, Inc., Boca Raton,
FL and Charlie Hunsicker, Manatee County, FL
10:10 a.m.
Professional Exchange Break
SESSION C
10:40 a.m.
Honeymoon
Island Beach Restoration Project – Phase II Funding Overview and Construction Update - Part 1 and Part 2
Andrew Squires and John Bishop, Ph.D. Pinellas County, FL and
Brett Moore, P.E. and Mohamed Dabees, Ph.D., P.E., Humiston & Moore Engineers, Naples, FL
11:05 a.m.
Evaluation of Bahamiam Sand as a Nourishment Source for Long Key State Park
Peter Seidle, P.E., Applied Technology and Management, Inc., West Palm
Beach, FL, and Cheryl Miller, Coastal Eco-Group, Deerfield Beach, FL
11:30 a.m.
Development of Estero Island Coastal
Management Plan
Josh
Carter, P.E., Coast & Harbor Engineering, a Division of Hatch Mott
MacDonald, New Orleans, LA, Matthew Campbell, P.E. and Arpit Agarwal, Coast & Harbor Engineering, Inc., a Division of Hatch Mott
MacDonald, Austin, TX, and Keith Laakkonen, Town of
Ft. Myers Beach, FL
12:00 p.m.
Luncheon
Buffet
SESSION D
10:40 a.m.
Coastal
Structure Permitting in Florida: Part II
Jason Engle, P.E. and Tori White, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, FL
11:05 a.m.
Recent Applications and Advancements
for the Strategic Use of Coastal Structures
Thomas
Pierro, P.E., CB&I Coastal Planning
& Engineering, Inc., Boca Raton, FL
11:30 a.m.
Headlands, Living Shorelines and
Breakwaters: Design, Construction and Performance of Three Cool Sites Along the Potomac River Estuary
C. Scott Hardaway, Jr., Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of
William and Mary, Gloucester Point, VA and James Gunn, Coastal Design and
Construction, Inc., Gloucester, VA
12:00 p.m.
Luncheon
Buffet
SESSION E
1:15 p.m.
Development and Adoption of Updated
Inlet Management Plans – Port Canaveral Inlet Management
Ralph
Clark, P.E., Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Water
Resource Management, Tallahassee, FL and Kevin Bodge,
Ph.D., P.E., Olsen Associates, Inc., Jacksonville, FL
1:40 p.m.
Wiggins Pass Inlet Management Plan
Implementation and 1st Year Performance
Stephen Keehn, P.E., Julien Devisse,
P.E., and Tara Brennar, P.G., CB&I Coastal
Planning & Engineering, Inc., Boca Raton, FL and Gary McAlpin, P.E.,
Collier County, FL
2:05 p.m.
Design and Expansion of the Sebastian
Inlet Sand Trap
Michael Jenkins, Ph.D., P.E., Applied Technology and Management,
Inc., West Palm Beach, FL and Martin Smithson, Sebastian
Inlet District, Indialantic, FL
2:30 p.m.
Modern and
Historical Morphodynamics of the John’s Pass – Blind
Pass Dual-Inlet System, Pinellas County, Florida
Mark Horwitz, P.G., Ping Wang, Ph.D., Ming Xie, and Jun Cheng, Coastal Research Laboratory, Department
of Geology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2:55 p.m.
Professional Exchange Break
SESSION F
1:15 p.m.
Beach Restoration throughout Okaloosa and Walton County, Florida
Duncan Greer, Taylor Engineering, Inc., Destin, FL
1:40 p.m.
Environmental Windows, A Closer Look
Bill Hanson, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co. LLC, Oak Brook,
IL
2:05 p.m.
An Evaluation of Environmental Windows on Dredging Projects in Florida, USA
Terri Jordan-Sellers and Aubree Hershorin, Ph.D., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, FL
2:30 p.m.
Evaluating Expected Dredging Costs for
Highly Variable Market Conditions
Steven
Howard, P.E., Olsen Associates, Inc., Jacksonville, FL
2:55 p.m.
Professional Exchange Break
SESSION G
Current
Methods of Calculating Beach Visitation Benefits of Beach Nourishment Projects
Michael Trudnak, P.E., Taylor Engineering, Inc., Jacksonville, FL
and William Hunt, retired USACE, Jacksonville, Florida
4:15 p.m.
The Florida
Beaches Habitat Conservation Plan: A Collaborative Effort
Jennifer McGee, Ph.D., Thomas Ostertag,
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, FL, Lisa
Robertson, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, FL, and
Brian Powell, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Vero Beach, FL
4:40 p.m.
Adjourn
SESSION H
3:25 p.m.
The Coastal Defense Application:
Evaluating Nature’s Role in Coastal Protection in Southeast Florida
James
Byrne, Chris Bergh, Caitlin Lustic, The Nature Conservancy, Big Pine Key, FL
and Zach Ferdana and Greg Guannel,
Ph.D.,
Natural Capital Project, Stanford, CA
3:50 p.m.
Coastal
Resiliency in Broward County
Samantha Danchuk, Ph.D., P.E., Nicole Sharp,
P.E., and Jennifer Jurado, Ph.D., Broward County, FL
4:15 p.m.
Margarita
Wells, City of Miami Beach, FL
4:40 p.m.
Robert
Barron, Coastal Growers, Inc., Boynton Beach, FL
5:05 p.m.
Adjourn
Friday, February 6, 2015
CLOSING GENERAL SESSION
8:00 a.m.
Guest
Speaker: Congressman David Jolly, Florida’s 13th Congressional
District
8:15 a.m.
Shoreline Change in Response to Sea
Level Rise on the Southwest Coast of Florida
James
Houston, Ph.D., U.S. Army Engineer Research and
Development Center, Vicksburg, MS
8:40 a.m.
Sea
Level Rise Effects on Beaches and Beach Nourishment
Andrew Condon, Ph.D. and Michael Walther, P.E., Coastal Tech, a GEC company
Vero Beach, FL
9:05 a.m.
U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers Guidance on Sea Level Change and Application in Coastal
Storm Damage Reduction and Ecosystem Restoration Projects
Heidi Moritz, P.E., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland
District, OR, and Matthew Schrader, P.E. and Mark Shafer, P.E., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, FL
9:45 a.m.
Douglas
Mann, P.E., CB&I Coastal Planning
& Engineering, Inc., Boca Raton, FL
10:10 a.m.
Professional
Exchange Break
10:35 a.m.
Introduction to the Coastal Engineering Program at the
University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida
William Dally, Ph.D., P.E., University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL
10:45 a.m.
Analysis of a 10-Year Nearshore Wave Data Base and Its
Implications to Littoral Processes
Luis Montoya and William Dally, Ph.D., P.E., University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL
11:10 a.m.
UAS for
Coastal Applications: Understanding the Regulatory Environment
Adam
Benjamin, UF/IFAS Fort Lauderdale Research & Education Center, University
of Florida, Fort Lauderdale, FL and Earl Soeder, PSM, GPServ,
Inc., Orlando, FL
11:35 a.m.
Coastal Engineering Haitian Style
Gary Zarillo, Ph.D., Department of Marine & Environmental Systems, Florida Institute of
Technology, Melbourne, FL, Timothy Blankenship,
P.E., Coastal Systems International, Inc., Coral Gables, FL, and Jean Lucien Lligonde and Joseph Philoxy,
CHRAD, Petion-ville, Ouest,
Haiti
12 noon
Passive
Dewatering – A Soft Way to Extend the Life of Beach Nourishments
Kenneth
Christensen, EcoShore Int’l, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, Sandy Nettles, P.G., Nettles
& Associates, Inc., Palm Harbor, FL, and Frank Gable, Ph.D., Department of
Marine and Ecological Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL
12:25 p.m.
Conference Adjourns