Delaware Bay Restoration

Moores Beach East Prefill

Moores Beach East Postfill

Horseshoecrab Recovery

Oyster Reefs

Leica RTK GPS data collection

DynaScan boat-mounted LiDAR

Deployment of Nortek Aquadopp (current profiler and wave system)

Hypack Bathymetric survey equipment

Hurricane Sandy devastated sandy beach habitats along NJ’s Delaware Bay shoreline. These critical habitats support spawning horseshoe crabs and foraging migratory shorebirds. The CRC, in partnership with the American Littoral Society and USFWS, developed projects to restore storm damaged beaches. Living shoreline projects designed to enhance and stabilize the restored beach habitats are underway across the state. Additional goals are to enhance ecological and community resilience, restore degraded marsh, and understand the long and short term movement of sediment along the Delaware Bay shoreline.

Click on the Delaware Bay Sediment Transport Anlysis Tool section for an interactive web application displaying the progress of this work

For videos of the projects, see below:

http://www.smithjam.com/delaware-bay-restoration/