GeoEconomics
Beach Nourishment and Management Decisions
Primary Researcher: Arye Janoff
Read a preprint of Arye’s paper “From Coastal Retreat to Seaward Growth: Emergent Behaviors from Paired Community Beach Nourishment Choices” here.
Arye’s research coupled geomorphology and economics to understand community-scale management along developed coasts under siege from rising seas. As a beach town resident and surfer, he has primary knowledge of the real-world impacts of complex strategic decisions and dynamic earth systems.
Engineered Dunes and Property Values
Primary Researcher: Jesse Kolodin
Jesse Kolodin’s current research focuses on the geomorphology of barrier island systems of NJ in relation to sea level rise. He has recently embarked on projects leveraging important new survey technologies, including the use of small unmanned aerial vehicles (sUAVs, colloquially, “drones”) that fly multispectral, thermal, and lidar sensors. Jesse has worked on a theoretical analysis for building a dune model, based on artificial dune construction and is working on an hedonic regression analysis for New Jersey beachfront communities and the impact these artificial dunes have on local property values (beachfront properties and extending the analysis to entire townships).
See some of his work below!
