

Advancing Science & Practice
- Advancing Beneficial Use Practices To Support Coastal System Resilience (In-press publication)
- Advancing Sediment Solutions in the Seven Mile Island Innovation Lab (ICCE in-press publication)
- 2023 Society of Military Engineers (SAME) Conference (presentation PDF)
- 2023 Delaware Estuary Science Summit (poster presentation)
- 2023 Delaware Estuary Science Summit (presentation PDF)
- Advancing Sediment Solutions in the Seven Mile Island Innovation Lab (ICCE abstract)
- 37th International Conference on Coastal Engineering (presentation PDF)
- Impact of Strategic Dredged Material Placement… (article in WEDA Journal of Dredging, 9/2022)
- A Community Engagement Framework Using Mental Modeling (technical report, 8/2022)
- New Jersey Coastal Wetlands Restoration Partnership (presentation PDF)
- USACE ERDC Workshop at Boston College March 2022 (poster presentation)
- Field Measurement and Monitoring of Sediment within SMIIL (final report, 6/2021)
- 2021 Delaware Shorebird Workshop (presentation PDF)
- 2020 Restore America’s Estuaries (presentation PDF)
- 2020 Delaware Wetlands Conference (presentation PDF)
- 2019 American Intracoastal Waterways (presentation PDF)
Creating Vanishing Habitats & Restoring Tidal Wetlands
- Beneficially Using Dredged Sediment to Enhance Marshes, Build Resiliency and Restore Habitats in New Jersey’s Back Bays (DNREC presentation)
- 2023 Delaware Estuary Science Summit – Beneficially Using Dredged Sediment to Enhance Marshes… (presentation PDF)
- 2021 Delaware Estuary Science Summit – Using Dredged Sediment to Uplift Marshes… (presentation PDF)
- 2020 USFWS Atlantic Coast Venture – Dredged Sediments to Create Habitat… (1-hr technical presentation)
- 2020 Waterbirds – Wading Birds Nesting on Marsh Islands in NJ… (presentation PDF)
- 2019 Waterbirds – Establishing Higher Ground for Nesting Birds… (conference poster)
Adaptive Management
- 2021 CMWWMA Habitat Restoration, Monitoring, and Evaluation – Ring Island and Great Flats (project report)
- 2021 Delaware Shorebird Workshop (presentation PDF)
- 2021 Delaware Estuary Science Summit – Vegetation Response to Dredge Material Placement… (poster presentation)
- Restore America’s Estuaries 2020 (poster presentation)
- 2019 Waterbirds – Application of Saltwater Solution to Control Vegetation Growth in a Tern Colony… (poster presentation)
SMIIL Working Group Presentations
Working Group Meeting 09/07/2022
- Agenda
- Gull Island – Two-year Post Placement Update
- Advancing Beneficial Use Practices to Support Coastal Resilience
- Impact of Strategic, Unconfined, Dredged Material Placement on Turbidity Within a Shallow Back Bay System
- Sturgeon and Gull Island Macroalgae Surveys 2020-2022
- The Placement and Fate of Subaqueous Berms for Marsh Edge Protection and Intertidal Flats Enhancement
- Sediment Exchange Through Tidal Creeks
- Virtual Meeting Recording (YouTube)
Working Group Meeting 06/16/2021
- Agenda
- Overview of 2020/2021 SMIIL Placements: Gull and Sturgeon Islands and Great Flats
- Monitoring Macroalgae and Benthic Communities at Gull and Sturgeon Island
- Consolidation of Dredged Material Placed on Marshes at SMIIL
- Gaining Momentum: How SMIIL Advances Beneficial Use Practices Along the NJ Intracoastal Waterway
- Monitoring Marsh Enhancement and Near Shore Placement
- Investigation of an Innovative Dredged Sediment Placement Technology
- Virtual Meeting Recording (YouTube)
Working Group Meeting 12/11/2020
- Agenda
- Maintenance Dredging for Safe Navigation: NJ Intracoastal Waterway Update
- Habitat Use and Reproductive Success of Wading Birds
- Sturgeon Island Conceptual Placement Plan
- Legacy Sediment Placement and Historical Photographic Insights
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