Living Shorelines, Breakwaters and Dunes With Carl Alderson
Date/Time: Thursday, February 11, 2021 7:00 PM 8:00 PM
Join OPAK for the next installment of our Virtual Ocean Café Series and learn about Living Shorelines, Breakwaters and Dunes with Carl Alderson. This talk is FREE to the public and registration is required. We do ask that you contribute what you can to help OPAK continue to educate the next generation of ocean heroes. Contributions can be made HERE.
Carl Alderson is a Landscape Architect/Restoration Ecologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and US Department of Commerce at the JJ Howard Marine Science Lab in Sandy Hook, NJ. Through his career, Carl has provided planning and technical design guidance to coastal habitat projects through various local, state and federal programs. These projects and programs attempt to strike a balance between human and wildlife cohabitation in highly developed urban estuaries and marine environments. Carl is a graduate of the Rutgers University, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences – Landscape Architecture Program. Before joining NOAA in 2002, Carl led a team of NYC scientists in a decade-long effort to acquire, protect and restore tidal and freshwater wetlands, marine bird and fish habitat as compensation for natural resources damages resulting from oil spills in NY Harbor.