Wave and Vegetation Modeling
Oral
Maura Boswell, PE
Ph.D. Candidate
Old Dominion University
Navid Tahvildari, PhD
Assistant Professor
Old Dominion University
Living shorelines integrate structural and natural features to stabilize the shoreline, through reduction of erosion from the wave climate, while keeping the connectivity between land and aquatic ecosystems. This study includes field study for both marsh sill and oyster reef living shoreline systems to quantify and compare their wave dissipation services and provide physics-based guidance for the design of living shoreline systems that are efficient in wave dissipation yet maximize land-water connectivity.