ASBPA's National Coastal Conference

Subject areas include:

Global coastal issues

• Impacts of increasing rates of sea (and lake) level rise
• Adaptation of coastal environments and ecosystems
• International perspectives on coastal preservation
• Sustainable beaches: Structural and non-structural solutions
• Effects of extreme storms and tsunamis on the coast
• Regulatory policy changes to adapt to climate change

Federal, state, and local coastal policy

• The process of federal funding: Congress, OMB, and U.S. Army Corps
• Economics: Advantages of beaches
• ASBPA mission: Sustaining the federal partnership
• Integration of coastal science and policy for improved management

Coastal Protection & Structures

• State-of-the-art of coastal structures
• Combining hard and soft shore protection
• Management of coastal inlets: Dredging and/or bypassing
• Modeling sediment transport and coastal processes
• State and local policies: Coastal structures

Management, monitoring and mitigation

• Surfing: Great Lakes and marine beaches
• Remote Sensing
• Coastal ocean and weather observation systems
• Advances in environmental mitigation
• Education and public awareness