MIT researchers discovered that restoring salt marshes in front of seawalls significantly reduces construction costs and enhances storm protection. Their study demonstrates that even small marsh areas ...
In Salem, their model showed that a healthy salt marsh could offset the need for an additional seawall height of 1.7 meters (about 5.5 feet), based on satisfying a rate of wave overtopping that ...
Protecting and enhancing salt marshes in front of protective seawalls can significantly help protect some coastlines, at a cost that makes this approach reasonable to implement. Images of coastal ...
Thursday, Nov. 14, associate professor of marine science David Samuel Johnson presented the 23rd Tack Lecture titled, “Space Fish, Zombie Shrimp, and Other Salt Marsh Tales” in the Commonwealth ...