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ERDC researches new ways to protect bird habitats in estuaries

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center

June 25, 2021 | 2:48

Researchers and engineers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's Coastal Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) partner with the Wetlands Institute at the Seven Mile Island Innovation Lab to discover new ways of protecting bird habitats that reside in estuaries. The laboratory team is attempting to leverage a form of beneficial use dredging to rehabilitate marsh sediment that was previously uninhabitable to bird species. Dave Perkey, the deputy director of the Regional Sediment Management Program, and Dr. Jarrell Smith, a research hydraulics engineer from the CHL, discuss recent research efforts while working in New Jersey in spring 2021.