The North Coast project in Georgetown and Horry Counties (SC) grew from TNC’s Coast Summit in 2016 where riverine flooding was highlighted as a problem that held opportunity for nature based mitigation projects. Geoscience Consultants was hired to provide an understanding of localized flood risk at present and under future climate change. This information will help community stakeholders identify locations where green infrastructure can be used to mitigate increasing flooding issues.

Geoscience Consultants was hired to examine sediment transport into a local navigational channel. The study revealed that a cause of the siltation in the channel was actually a lack of sediment. This study highlights the intertwined nature of coastal habitats and human use.

Geoscience Consultants generated time-based inundation risk map outputs of present and future (up to 2100) inundation from SLR at mean higher high water, shallow coastal flooding, category 1 hurricanes, and still-water annual storm surge in the Salem Sound Coastwatch communities of Northeast Massachusetts.

Geoscience worked as a subcontractor for the NOAA Office for Coastal Management on an accuracy assessment of the Benthic mapping of San Francisco Bay. The work included comparison of draft benthic map results with temporal imagery and in situ measurements of benthic vegetation and littoral land cover.

The work was performed to assess the effects of human modifications (port development) on the nearby natural shorelines including wetlands. Shoreline changes in these settings are complex and spatially inconsistent, unlike sandy open-coast shorelines. In order to both densely measure the change and smooth high frequency variation a node to node analysis was performed