DoD DEEDS RESEARCH PROJECT
Developing Engineering practices using Ecosystem Design Solutions for Future Army (DEEDS); Building Coastal Community Resilience with Nature-based Shoreline Solution.
Researchers at the University of Delaware are exploring ways to help build coastal resilience while also providing benefits to the Delaware Bay ecosystem.
The University Delaware DEEDS project explores coastline suitability for enhanced living shoreline technologies while also addressing the associated physical and social infrastructure and land use patterns that may threaten natural and restored ecosystems. The team will us an integrated framework for infrastructure monitoring and modeling to assess physical and social vulnerabilities using advanced sensing technologies and computer vision for infrastructure monitoring of salinity and water levels, LTM, and agent-based modeling (ABM) to understand the interaction between hazards, coastal communities, and their environments pre- and post- implementation of nature-based solutions.
Lead PI: Jack Puleo
CoPIs at UD: Monique Head, Edward Hale, Eric Bardenhagen
Key Personnel: Yao Hu, Tracy McMullen
Subcontract: University of Florida, CoPI: Jules Bruck
Subcontract: Partnership for Delaware Estuary