39th Annual National Conference
on Beach Preservation Technology
February 4-6, 2026
Embassy Suites, St. Augustine Beach, Florida
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Wednesday, February 4, 2026
10:15 am – 12:00 pm
2026 Outlook on Florida Coastal Dredging Projects Workshop
Presentations by Milan Mora, USACE Jacksonville District, and
Greg Garis, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Additional Information
OPENING GENERAL SESSION
1:00 p.m.
Welcome
1:10 p.m.
Post-Milton
Midnight Pass Inlet Evolution and Management
Michael Jenkins, Ph.D.,
P.E., Geosyntec, West Palm, FL, and Rachel Herman and Joseph Kraus, Planning
and Development Services, Sarasota County, Sarasota, FL
1:30 p.m.
Development
of a County Coastal Management Plan: St. Johns County, FL
Sloane Stephens and Stephen Hammond, Coastal Management
Department, St. Johns County, St. Augustine, FL and Albert Browder, Ph.D., P.E.
and Krista Egan, P.E., Foth|Olsen, Jacksonville, FL
1:50 p.m.
Johnny Martin, P.E., Moffatt & Nichol, Inc., Raleigh, NC and James
LaFaso, P.E., Moffatt & Nichol, Inc., Miami, FL
2:10 p.m.
From Risk to Resilience: Evaluating Coastal Management
Strategies in Volusia County
Wendy Laurent, P.E., and Nicole Filipow, P.E. and Christopher
Bender, Ph.D., P.E., BC.CE, Taylor Engineering, Inc.,
Philadelphia, PA and Jacksonville, FL, and Jessica Fentress, P.E., Volusia
County, Daytona Beach, FL
2:30 p.m.
Canaveral
Harbor (Florida) Sand Bypass Project, 1995-2025
Luis F. de Valderrama, P.E. and Kevin Bodge, Ph.D., P.E., Foth|Olsen, Jacksonville, FL and Patrick
Snyder, P.E., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, FL
2:50 p.m.
Professional Exchange Break
Beach
Nourishment Impacts on Surfing: Separating Myths from Facts
Lindino Benedet, Ph.D. and Thomas Pierro, P.E., BC.CE, Coastal Protection Engineering, Boca
Raton, FL
3:45 p.m.
Nicholas
McCarroll, Ph.D. and Jennifer Coor, Ph.D., P.G., and David Holland, U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, FL and Military Munitions Design
Center, Baltimore, MD
4:05 p.m.
Impact
of Calcium Carbonate Shell Hash on Geomechanical Properties of Sand
Noah
Evans, Nina Stark, Ph.D., and Stephen Adusei, Engineering School of Sustainable
Infrastructure and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
4:25 p.m.
Niki
Desjardin and Robert Ernest, Ecological Associates, Inc., Jensen Beach, FL, Michael Jenkins, Ph.D.,
P.E., Geosyntec, West Palm, FL, and Eric Seckinger, Florida Fish and Wildlife
Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, FL
Thursday, February 5, 2026
CONCURRENT SESSION A1
8:05 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.
8:05 a.m.
Adaptive
Restoration of Bird Island CWA: Stabilizing Shorelines for Long-Term Ecological
Resilience
Ryan Watson, Stantec Consulting Services Inc., Clearwater, FL
8:25 a.m.
Groundwork
for Coastal Defense: Geotechnical Exploration in Key Biscayne’s Flood Risk
Study
Stephanie
Soto and Barbara Nist, P.G., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville
District, FL
8:45 a.m.
Process-Based
Modeling to Support Multi-Objective Metrics for Nature-Based Solutions for
MacDill Air Force Base
Ioannis
Georgiou, Ph.D. and Jessica Henkel, Ph.D., and Martijn Bregman, Francesca
Messina, Ph.D., Ovel Diaz Ph.D., and Soupy Dalyander, Ph.D., The Water
Institute, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, LA
9:05 a.m.
Enhancing
Coastal Planning and Resilience with NOAA’s Sea Level Calculator
Matthew Pendleton,
Office for Coastal Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Charleston, SC
9:25 a.m.
Mohammad
Jamous, Ph.D., Mott MacDonald Group, Inc., New York, NY and Reza Marsooli,
Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
9:45 a.m.
Professional Exchange Break (30 Minutes)
CONCURRENT SESSION B1
8:05 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.
8:05 a.m.
Extracting
Coastal Morphologic Features from High-Resolution Profiles
Quin Robertson, Ph.D., P.G., Woolpert
Inc., Beavercreek, OH, Zhifei Dong, Ph.D., Tellus Consulting, Delray Beach, FL,
and Jennifer Wozencraft and Charlene Sullivan, Joint
Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise, U.S. Army Engineer
Research and Development Center, Kiln, MS
8:25 a.m.
The
2005 Bogue Inlet Relocation Project – A 20+ year Retrospective
Greg “Rudi” Rudolph,
Woolpert Inc., North Charleston, SC
8:45 a.m.
CoastSnap St. Augustine Beach: A Partnership to Monitor Coastal
Morphologic Change in St. Johns County, Florida
Peter Adams, Ph.D., Matheus de Assis Bose, Copeland Cromwell, and
Teagan Duenkel, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL
9:05 a.m.
Survey123
and UAS Applications for Storm Impact Data Collection
Hailey Wilson and Dani Tabilo,
Environmental Resources Management, Palm Beach County, West Palm Beach, FL
9:25 a.m.
Ethan Bowe, Foth Infrastructure and
Environment, LLC, Newport, RI
9:45 a.m.
Professional Exchange Break
CONCURRENT SESSION A2
10:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
10:15 a.m.
Sebastian Inlet North Jetty Rehabilitation
Project
Bryan Flynn, P.E., Environmental Science Associates, Tampa,
FL, James Gray, Jr., Sebastian Inlet District, Indialantic, FL, Tara Brenner
P.G., P.E., Environmental Science Associates, Delray Beach, FL and Jeffrey
Bergmann, P.E., Wantman Group, Tampa, FL
10:35 a.m.
Mohamed Dabees, Ph.D., P.E., BC.CE, Marc
Damon, P.E., and Brett Moore, P.E., BC.CE, Humiston
& Moore Engineers, Naples,
FL
10:55 a.m.
Evolution
of the Deerfield/Hillsboro Coastal Management Program
Dylan Nestler, P.E., Thomas Pierro, P.E., BC. CE, and Stacy Buck, Coastal Protection Engineering, Boca Raton, FL
11:15 a.m.
Beach
Erosion and Shore Protection along Placencia Peninsula, Belize
Ping Wang, Ph.D., School of Geosciences, University of South
Florida, Tampa, FL
11:35 a.m.
Lido
Key Beach Nourishment Performance and Path Forward
Collin Ries, P.E., Patrick Snyder, P.E., and Dana Small, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Jacksonville District, FL
12:00 p.m.
Lunch (1 Hour)
CONCURRENT SESSION B2
10:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
10:15 a.m.
New
Pass Inlet Management Study: A Data Driven Approach to Plan Development
Thomas Pierro, P.E., BC.CE and Dylan
Nestler, P.E., Coastal Protection Engineering, Boca
Raton, FL, Alyssa Thomas, P.E., City of Sarasota, Sarasota, FL, and Doris
Otero, Ph.D., CFM, APTIM, Boca Raton, FL
10:35 a.m.
Matheus
de Assis Bose and Peter Adams, Ph.D., Department of Geological Sciences,
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Justin Shawler, Ph.D., Kaitlyn
McPherran, Ph.D., and Charlene Sylvester, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS
10:55 a.m.
Supplemental
Dredging Areas for More Cost-Effective Beach Nourishment at East Pass
Michael Kabiling, Ph.D., P.E., CFM, Taylor Engineering, Inc.,
Jacksonville, FL
11:15 a.m.
Geomorphic
Response to Channel Bar Dredging for Coastal Restoration Projects
Kazi
Sadid, Ph.D., P.E., Halff, Houston, TX, Dan Gessler, Ph.D., P.E., Flow Science,
Fort Collins, CO, Rudy Simoneaux, Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority,
Baton Rouge, LA, and Clinton Willson, Ph.D., LSU College of the Coast &
Environment, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
11:35 a.m.
Teagan
Duenkel and Peter Adams, Ph.D., Department of Geological Sciences, University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL
12:00 p.m.
Lunch (1 Hour)
CONCURRENT SESSION A3
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m.
Boy
Scout Island Living Shoreline Restoration Project
Morjana Signorin, Akash Sahu, and Lindino Benedet, Ph.D., Coastal Protection Engineering, Boca
Raton, FL and Scott Tedford, Amy Eason, and Zachary Hughes, Martin County,
Stuart, FL
1:20 p.m.
Twin
Rivers Shoreline Stabilization Project
Jonathan Brumfield, P.E., Taylor Engineering, Inc., Jacksonville,
FL, and Jessica Garland and Lauren Theis, Martin County, Stuart, FL
1:40 p.m.
City of
Boynton Beach Living Shoreline Assessment
Jessica Rakich, P.E., Michael Barnett, P.E., BC.CE, and Melanie Sztybel, GHD, Inc., West Palm Beach, FL,
Atlanta, GA, and Miami, FL, and Alannah Irwin and Moisey Abdurakhmanov, City of
Boynton Beach, FL
Collaborative and Multi-Objective Approach to Prioritizing
Nature-Based Solutions for MacDill Air Force Base
Soupy Dalyander, Ph.D., Jessica Henkel, Ph.D., and Diana Di
Leonardo, The Water Institute, Baton Rouge, LA
2:20 p.m.
Oyster Restoration Bricks (ORB): 3D-Printed Ceramic Modules
along Seawalls
Lily
Boyer, Ella Champ, and Tina Piracci, University of South Florida, Judy Genshaft
Honors College and William Ellis, Ph.D., Department of Integrative Biology,
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2:40 p.m.
Lightning Point Living Shoreline Restoration Including Hard
Armor for Enhanced Stability
Matthew
Stovall, P.E. and Dan Priest, P.E., Contech Engineered Solutions, LLC,
Clackamas, OR and West Chester, OH
3:00 p.m.
Professional Exchange Break
CONCURRENT SESSION B3
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m.
Microplastics
in Coastal Sediments
Halaina Hahn and Tiffany Roberts Briggs, Ph.D., Department of
Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
1:20 p.m.
Securing
NASA’s Coastline: Offshore Sand Source Investigation for Kennedy Space Center
William
Warren, P.G. and Barbara Nist, P.G., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville
District, FL
1:40 p.m.
FDEP’s
Regional Offshore Sand Source Inventory (ROSSI) Project Submittal Challenges
and Updates
Sarah Bodin, Office of
Resilience and Coastal Protection, Florida Department
of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, FL
2:00 p.m.
The
Future of Offshore Sand Sources in North Palm Beach County
Evan Heeg and Steven Howard, P.E., Foth|Olsen, Jacksonville, FL
2:20 p.m.
Patrick
Snyder, P.E., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, FL
2:40 p.m.
Sebastian
Inlet Sand-Trap Bypassing: Volumes and a Practical Supplementation
Katie Crocker and S. Marie Yarbrough,
P.E., AtkinsRéalis, Melbourne, FL, James Gray, Jr.,
Sebastian Inlet District, Indialantic, FL, and Gary Zarillo, Ph.D., P.G.,
Department of Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences, Florida Institute of
Technology, Melbourne, FL
3:00 p.m.
Professional Exchange Break
CONCURRENT SESSION A4
3:30 p.m. to 5:10 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
Online Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Coastal Elevation Dynamics:
Toward a Digital-Twin Framework for Evolving Shorelines
Naqiya Rangwala and Prashant Shekhar, Ph.D., Department of
Mathematics and Stephen Medeiros, Ph.D., P.E., Department of Civil Engineering,
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL
3:50 p.m.
Elizabeth Royer and Ping Wang, Ph.D., School of Geosciences,
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
4:10 p.m.
Akash Sahu, Morjana Signorin, and Lindino Benedet, Ph.D., Coastal Protection Engineering, Boca
Raton, FL
4:30 p.m.
Exploring
the Critical Factors in High-Frequency Storm Erosion Modeling
Shamim Murshid, Ph.D., Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection, Florida Department
of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, FL
4:50 p.m.
Chase Davis, Morjana Signorin and Lindino Benedet, Ph.D., Coastal Protection Engineering,
Wilmington, NC and Boca Raton, FL, and Dano Roelvink, Ph.D., IHE Delft and
Delft Hydraulics, Delft, Netherlands
5:10 p.m.
Adjourn
CONCURRENT SESSION B4
3:30 p.m. to 5:10 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
Temporary
Breakwater to Support Cruise Pier Construction at Half Moon Cay, Bahamas
Kevin
Glass, P.E., American Bridge, Tampa, FL, Tim Blankenship, P.E., Moffatt &
Nichol, Inc., Miami, FL, and Armando Corpas, Carnival Corporation, Miami, FL
3:50 p.m.
Elements
of Coastal Structure Infrastructure Management
Douglas Mann, P.E., BC.CE, Aptim Environmental & Infrastructure, LLC, Boca Raton, FL
4:10 p.m.
Beyond
the 100-Year Storm: Elevating the Flagler Beach Pier for Future Coastal
Extremes
Gabriel Perdomo, P.E. and Kalen Hatten, E.I., Moffatt &
Nichol, Inc., Tampa, FL
4:30 p.m.
Developing
Sustainable and Innovative Systems for Beach Erosion Control through Modeling
and Design
Mohammad Ghiasian, Ph.D., P.E. and Melanie Sztybel, Jessica
Rakich, P.E. and Michael Barnett, P.E., BC.CE, GHD, Inc., Miami, FL, West Palm
Beach, FL, and Atlanta, GA, Amy Cook, Miami-Dade County, Miami, FL, and Brian
Haus, Ph.D., Sandash Lamsal, Ph.D., and Landolf
Rhode-Barbarigos, Ph.D., University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
4:50 p.m.
Novel
Hybrid Coastal Evolution and Storm Modeling Framework for Beach Nourishment
Yashar Rafati, Ph.D., P.E. and Angela Schedel, Ph.D., P.E., HDR
Engineering, Tampa and Jacksonville, FL
5:10 p.m.
Adjourn
Friday, February 6, 2026
CLOSING GENERAL SESSION
8:05 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
8:05 a.m. Session
Sponsor Recognition
8:10 a.m.
Bret
Webb, Ph.D., P.E., BC.CE, Goodwyn Mills & Cawood, and Stephanie Patch, Ph.D.,
P.E. and Trung Do, Ph.D., P.E., Department of Civil, Coastal, and Environmental
Engineering, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
8:30 a.m.
John Bishop, Ph.D. and Zachary Westfall, Public
Works, Pinellas County,
Clearwater, FL and Jacob Rice, Aptim Environmental
& Infrastructure, LLC, Boca Raton, FL
9:10 a.m.
Assessment
of Pinellas County Coastal Erosion Control Structures
James
Austin, P.E. and Douglas Mann, P.E., BC.CE, Aptim Environmental & Infrastructure, LLC and John Bishop,
Ph.D., Public Works, Pinellas
County, Clearwater, FL
9:30 a.m.
Maintaining
Momentum: Utilizing Proactive Approaches When Project Delays Hit
Nicole Filipow, P.E. and Christopher Bender, Ph.D., P.E., BC.CE, Taylor Engineering, Inc., Jacksonville, FL
9:50 a.m.
Professional Exchange Break
10:20 a.m. Student Scholarship Presentations by
Michael Poff, P.E., Coastal Engineering Consultants, Bonita Springs, FL
10:25 a.m.
Jessica Cline, Marine Resources
Council, Palm Bay, FL and Chris Bogdan, Ferguson Waterworks, Orlando, FL
10:45 a.m.
Grace Hejmanowski and Joe Wagner, P.E., BC.CE, Black & Veatch,
Inc., Tampa, FL and Savannah, GA
11:05 a.m.
Shoal
Tracker – A New Satellite-Based Approach to Monitor Shoal Development and
Migration
Copeland
Cromwell and Peter Adams, Ph.D., Department of Geological Sciences, University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Aleksandra Ostojic, Justin Shawler, Ph.D.,
Kaitlyn McPherran, Ph.D., Ian Conery, Ph.D., and Shannon Brown, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development
Center, Vicksburg, MS
11:25 a.m.
Carolyn Kovacs, UF/IFAS Extension Flagler and Volusia
Counties, Bunnell, FL
11:45 a.m.
Balancing
Habitat Restoration and Human Use of the Lower Perdido Islands
Kate Dawson, P.E., Moffatt & Nichol, Inc., Pensacola, FL and
Katie Baltzer, The Nature Conservancy, Mobile, AL
12:05 p.m.
Adjourn
