Video by John Goddin | Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center | 10.30.2024
The Air Force Civil Engineer Center’s Natural Disaster Recovery Division announced the start of oyster reef construction at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida on October 21, 2024. Supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s “Reefense” program (https://www.darpa.mil/program/reefense), this effort seeks to develop self-healing, hybrid biological and engineered......
Video by John Goddin | Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center | 10.30.2024
The Air Force Civil Engineer Center’s Natural Disaster Recovery Division announced the start of oyster reef construction at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida on October 21, 2024. (The on-site interviews and video contained in this production were shot on October 30, 2024.) Supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s “Reefense” program......
Video by Lance Cpl. Christian Cutter | Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort | 04.06.2024
Members of the Sustainability Institute South Carolina construct an oyster castle reef at Laurel Bay Military Housing, South Carolina, April 6, 2024. Volunteers from the Tri-Command community, the Sustainability Institute South Carolina and Nature Conservancy South Carolina came together to build oyster castles to create habitats for oysters and prevent shoreline erosion. (U.S. Marine Corps......
Video by James Walker | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District | 05.18.2023
This B-Roll package contains imagery of USACE Engineers as they launch a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to assess the possible effects of a recent tornado that past through the area on the 3rd of May, 2023. Additionally, they also employed the ROV to monitor some nearby submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) sites to assess their overall health and growth. The ROV footage will be uploaded......
Video by James Walker | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District | 10.17.2022
USACE, Sen. Bill DeSteph and Broad Bay Civic League leadership boarded survey vessels in order to review depths of previously constructed artificial reed site and to survey potential site for an additional reef. The reef constructions are part of the Lynnhaven River Basin Ecosystem Restoration project and their importance is to bolster and foster continued water quality improvement in the......
Video by Jared Eastman and Spc. David Jackson | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 01.04.2021
The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) announces Jan. 25, 2021, a three-year research collaboration with the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) to create oyster reef habitat in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The primary objectives of the project are to investigate methods for optimizing oyster habitat restoration in the area ― which would ultimately lead to oyster......
Video by Patrick Bloodgood | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District | 05.18.2017
Contractors are on site working about a half-mile from shore building 25 acres of new habitat out of granite rock in the Piankatank River as part of the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Recovery Project....
