Description
Collaborate with field teams, coastal engineers, and marine biologists to oversee implementation of coastal and estuarine restoration projects and develop new tools, models, and methods. Process and synthesize oceanographic and ecological data into practical strategies for shoreline resilience, habitat restoration, monitoring, and management.
- • Notify coastal permitting agencies of deviations from implemented restoration plans.
- • Develop coastal and estuary restoration project schedules and budgets.
- • Develop and communicate recommendations for shoreline landowners and coastal communities to maintain or restore conditions.
- • Create maps and diagrams for coastal restoration using GIS, CAD, and other mapping tools.
- • Apply for permits and approvals for coastal restoration (e.g., CWA 404/401, CZM, ESA).
- • Review coastal restoration and remediation designs, such as living shorelines and oyster reefs.
- • Supervise and provide technical guidance, training, and assistance to field crews restoring tidal habitats.
- • Provide technical direction on coastal planning to engineers, biologists, geologists, modelers, and other professionals.
- • Plan or supervise environmental studies to ensure regulatory compliance for coastal construction and operations.
- • Inspect active coastal restoration sites to ensure compliance with environmental and safety policies, standards, and permit conditions.
- • Plan coastal and estuarine restoration projects using biological and physical datasets, coastal strategies, and planning software.
- • Identify short- and long-term impacts of restoration activities on tidal habitats, water quality, and shoreline dynamics.
- • Identify coastal mitigation alternatives, ensuring compliance with applicable standards, laws, and regulations.
- • Create models or simulations of tidal hydrodynamics, sediment transport, sea-level rise, or habitat change using GIS and coastal models.
- • Conduct feasibility and cost-benefit studies for coastal and estuary restoration, including nature-based solutions.
- • Conduct environmental impact studies on dredging, vessel traffic, pollutants, human activities, and climate change in estuaries.
- • Communicate findings of coastal studies or restoration proposals to agencies, partners, and stakeholders.
- • Collect and analyze field data (e.g., salinity, turbidity, bathymetry, vegetation, benthic communities) to determine conditions and needs.
- • Develop natural resource management plans for estuaries and shorelines consistent with federal, state, and tribal requirements.
- • Develop environmental management or restoration plans for ports, coastal pipelines, refineries, offshore wind, and marine terminals.
- • Create habitat management or restoration plans for tidal marshes, seagrass meadows, oyster reefs, dunes, and riparian buffers.
- • Conduct site assessments to certify habitat condition, assess erosion and flood risk, or determine coastal restoration needs.
- • Write grants and funding proposals for coastal and estuarine restoration and resilience projects.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
