💡 ESMN Chapter Meeting: Speaker Christopher Hein, Director of VIMS Geology Lab

Christopher Hein, Director of the VIMS Geology Lab will give an update on the Cedar Island Project.

The project aims to improve barrier-island and marsh resilience on a 216-acre site to protect against coastal erosion and island breaching, while expanding wildlife habitat and ecosystem services. This will help protect underserved coastal communities against the impacts of coastal flooding and damage from storm surge.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• More info about Cedar Island.
• http://geology.blogs.wm.edu/2016/08/06/twenty-years-of-change-at-cedar-island/Twenty Years of Change at Cedar ISland
• Leveraging the Interdependencies Between Barrier Islands and Backbarrier Saltmarshes to Enhance Resilience to Sea-Level Rise
• CEDAR ISLAND MARSH COULD MEAN MORE BIRD HABITAT, LESS EROSION FOR EASTERN SHORE
• Buying Time – Living on the Edge
• Dr. Hein’s vitae as of September 2023

All 2024 speaker meetings will be the third Wednesday of every other month at Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) Eastern Shore Laboratory, Seaside Hall, 40 Atlantic Street, Wachapreague. Note that per VIMS you may park on Atlantic Avenue along the yellow curbs.

Social time 5-5:30pm; speaker 5:30; brief business meeting 6:30.

Better Impact Category 2: Continuing Education (speaker portion only)

See VMN CE Webinars and VMN High Five From Nature Series for additional CE opportunities.