Poster 19-05

Bird-Long Island Management Study

PI: Jon Calabria

Co-PI(s): Clark Alexander Kevin Haas

Institution(s): The University of Georgia

Abstract

The shoreline of an anthropogenically altered island is changing and threatens cultural and natural resources on the property that GDOT owns and intends to use for saltwater marsh mitigation. The first phase of the Bird-Long Island investigated shoreline movement over time, deployed spat sticks, documented vegetative alliances and quantified channel velocities (Phase 1A: Alexander, C. and Calabria, J. and Phase 1B: Haas, K.)[1]. Results from the first phase informed the second phase of design interventions that balance cultural and natural resources in light of environmental changes. Design interventions are proposed with unranked strengths and weaknesses that explain their efficacy. Several conceptual plans with passive and active strategies to enhance natural and cultural resources on this property are proposed.

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