On this episode of Shorewords! meet Nicole Elko and Kim Garvey, two of the authors of the article, A Century of U.S. Beach Nourishment.  Many of the beaches we enjoy regularly have benefited from nourishment as a management option.  Large amounts of sand have been placed along the coast, or relocated from harbors and inlets, and while the volumes are huge, so too have been the benefits to hundreds of beach communities and millions of users.  Learn about the range of nourishment projects around the US, the differences in nourishment regionally and why the data base for the nourishment analysis goes back a century.  Here is a link to A Century of U.S. Beach Nourishment, published in January 2021 in Elsevier’s Ocean and Coastal Management Journal.