Lead: Owen Thomas
Counselors: Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba

One common coastal management practice, beach nourishment, is the act of adding new sand to a shoreline to replenish sand that has been swept away due to erosion. MACH-affiliated researcher, Owen Thomas, builds on prior MACH-supported modeling to investigate the degree to which coordination among neighboring coastal towns affects the long-term sustainability and cost-effectiveness of shoreline management, specifically beach nourishment practices, under different sea-level rise and storm scenarios. By coupling physical models of coastal change with socio-economic drivers such as tourism dependency, the work aims to identify the emergent patterns of adaptation that arise from shared sediment systems and regional policy choices.