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charged with operating more than 13,000

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miles of coastal navigation channels .

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The U . S Army Corps of Engineers needs

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robust decision support technologies to

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better manage its vast portfolio . The

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Coastal Inlets Research Program

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Research has strived to infuse these

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technologies into the hands of

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practitioners to ensure mission success .

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A central goal of the research program

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is to advance our knowledge and

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technology to better predict future

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channel shoaling . The syrup develops

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predictive tools such as coastal

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numerical models and conducts data

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analytics toe identify where the core

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can reduce the cost of dredging for

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federal navigation projects . Gallops

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in District Applied surfaced in Cade

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tool to the island in the past to

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evaluate the essentially shoreline

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change and methods that we could use

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toe make this shoreline more resilient .

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So we've looked at things like where

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could replace breakwaters ? Where could

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we play speech ? Nourishment on gin que

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gives us the power toe . Quantify the

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results of those changes , so we're

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able to use it to find the most cost

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effective solution provides a great

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benefits , so the search operates

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within the physical space of estuaries ,

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coasts and the open ocean , with an

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emphasis on coastal navigation and the

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core's operations and maintenance

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mission . Much of the contemporary

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history of inland engineering began

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within the core , starting in the early

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20th century with the definition of

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disability of title limits , which is

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important for optimizing the design and

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with in depth of inlet entrance

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navigation channels . Today , the

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Coastal , its research program works on

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the advancement of our coastal

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numerical modeling tools for the

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prediction of hydrodynamics and

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sediment transport , as well as deep

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analyses into our nation wide portfolio

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of navigation data sets to optimize

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design and maintenance and operations

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of our coastal navigation assets . This

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improves the accuracy of our

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engineering designs and our overall

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value to the nationwide operations and

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maintenance program . The Army Corps of

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Engineers spends more than $1 billion

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each year on the operation and

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maintenance of more than 1000 coastal

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navigation projects . Given the

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challenges and understanding the

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physical processes of coastal inlets ,

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the Coastal Inlets Research Program was

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created to meet the demand for research

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and development . The program develops

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a robust suite of engineering

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technology focused on coastal modeling ,

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inlet engineering in Lee Geum , or

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Thick Evolution and Coastal Navigation

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portfolio Management technologies

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derived from field data collection ,

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laboratory experiments and numerical

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modeling address concepts and theories

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at time scales ranging from hourly

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events , toe long term century scale

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trajectories . These tools are designed

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to support the Corps of Engineers ,

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from engineers and scientists working

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at the project scale to regional and

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national level business line managers

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overseeing the navigation operations

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and maintenance program . Tidal inlets

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are very dynamic , complex environments ,

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and they can be really tricky to manage .

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And tricky toe design projects within

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the Coastal Endless Research Program

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has been incredibly valuable toe

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springing expertise in terms of data

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collection and modeling tools and

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technical expertise that can really

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help us manage these projects better

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and operate them more effectively and

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cost effective . The Coastal Inlets

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Research Program is a very well

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developed programme , very well

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respected program with a long history

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of researchers working within it ,

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developing the tools that they have

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today . I think one of the things that

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makes it especially valuable to us is

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that the researchers understand the

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practical applications of the work that

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they're doing , so they developed the

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science and the tools , but they're

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very effective for us to use them on

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practical applications and projects

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within the district's . The Coastal

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Inlets Research program offers modeling

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techniques that accelerate the

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prediction of processes from days two

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hours and cuts costs by several orders

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of magnitude . And the program is

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closely connected to the communities of

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practice . It serves through wide

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ranging technology transfer activities ,

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allowing it to quickly incorporate

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feedback from the field into its

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technologies . As a result , the Serbs

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pioneering research is infused into

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field ready tools at the rapid speed

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demanded by a changing engineering

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field .