Back to Blog Listing

Interest in living shorelines and alternative shoreline stabilization methods continues to grow throughout the Gulf region and the nation. In June, we (the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Legal Program) were asked to participate in a NOAA-funded living shoreline research report led by Restore America’s Estuaries.

The draft report, Living Shorelines: From Barriers to Opportunities, debuted in November at the national Summit on Coastal and Estuarine Research in National Harbor, Maryland. The team of authors is currently reviewing comments received on the draft. The final report will be available in early 2015.

You can view the draft report here. 

In addition, Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant and partners hosted a successful workshop on living shorelines earlier this year that brought together homeowners, regulators, researchers and contractors to discuss successes and challenges. And many presentations at the recent Bays and Bayous Symposium centered on the use of living shorelines.

For more information on our living shorelines work, visit the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Legal Program on the web.

Meet the author

Niki Pace

Catch the latest blogs!

Microplastics research aims to improve current monitoring capabilities

Microplastics are an environmental issue of increasing concern. They’re in the water we drink, food we eat, air we breathe and virtually every body of water on earth. Microplastics are defined as pieces of plastic smaller than 5 mm in size. 

Anthony Vedral

Read more

Oyster farming lingo: What does it mean?

If you’ve spent any time around commercial oyster farming, you've probably heard terms like seed, spat, SoS and florets. They can sound a little confusing at first, but they’re really just names for different stages in an oyster’s life.

Russell "Rusty" Grice

Read more
Read more blogs