October 2019 - Citizen Science for our Coastal Community

CoastSNAP - Citizen Science Effort to Document Coastal Change Using Smart Phones

Drs. Ian Conery and Kate Brodie from the US Army Corp of Engineers Duck Field Research Facility have teamed up with Dr. Mitch Harley from the University of New South Wales in Australia and the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) to deploy the first CoastSnap stations in the U.S. on North Carolina's Outer Banks. They'll let us know how we can contribute to this  innovative citizen science community beach monitoring system designed to use smart phone cameras to capture and measure our dynamic coastline.

www.facebook.com/coastsnap

iFlood - Citizen Science Project to Improve our Understanding of Coastal Flooding during Extreme Storms

Britt Raubenheimer (Senior Scientist), Rachel Housego (WHOI/MIT PhD student), Steve Elgar (Senior Scientist), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have partnered with the towns of Duck and Nags Head to improve predictions of flooding associated with interactions between coastal groundwater, waves, storm surge, and precipitation using a model-developed with multi-year measurements at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Field Research Facility in Duck, NC. To expand and validate the flooding model for the Outer Banks region, we developed a phone application, iFlood, that enables residents to send photos and reports about flooding in their area.