Hudson River Sustainable Shorelines

From 2010 to 2018, the NERRS Science Collaborative supported several phases of the Hudson River Sustainable Shorelines Project, which engages a regional research team to quantify the ecological functions and physical stresses on the full range of Hudson River shorelines. This research is the basis for the development of information and tools needed by regulators, engineers, and resource managers to identify the best settings and approaches for sustainable shoreline protection in the Hudson River Estuary. The work has included the establishment of a distributed demonstration network of seven sites, with varying modes of sustainable shoreline construction, along the Hudson.<br>From 2015-2018, the team worked closely with regulators, engineers, and land managers to 1) develop and field-validate a rapid assessment protocol manual for physical and ecological functions of ecologically enhanced shorelines and 2) train local land managers in the protocols. The project helped to solidify confidence in the suitability of novel shoreline techniques in the Hudson River Estuary and has enabled local managers to track performance into the future. In field validating and training local managers in the rapid assessment protocols, living shorelines performance data were collected at four sites along the Hudson River. Sites include the Coxsackie Boat Launch, Esopus Meadows Preserve, Foundry Dock Park, and Beczak -Habirshaw Park and Tidal Marsh. The dataset available here includes a suite of measures of ecological and physical functions of built sustainable shoreline structures at these sites. The dataset file format is an Excel spreadsheet.

2010年至2018年间，国家河口研究保护区科学合作项目（NERRS Science Collaborative）为哈德逊河可持续岸线项目的多个实施阶段提供资助。该项目组建区域研究团队，对哈德逊河全范围岸线的生态功能与物理胁迫开展量化研究。此项研究为监管机构、工程师与资源管理者开发所需的信息与工具提供了核心依据，助力其识别哈德逊河河口地区可持续岸线防护的最优方案与实施路径。项目已在哈德逊河沿岸搭建包含7个站点的分布式示范网络，各站点采用差异化的可持续岸线建设模式。
2015年至2018年，研究团队与监管方、工程师及土地管理者紧密协作，完成两项核心工作：1） 制定并实地验证了一套针对生态增强型岸线物理与生态功能的快速评估规程手册；2） 为当地土地管理者开展该规程的专项培训。本项目强化了业界对哈德逊河河口地区新型岸线技术适用性的信心，同时支持当地管理者后续开展岸线绩效追踪。在实地验证规程并培训本地管理者的过程中，研究团队在哈德逊河沿岸4个站点采集了活体岸线（living shorelines）的绩效数据，涉及站点包括考克斯萨基游船码头（Coxsackie Boat Launch）、埃斯波斯梅多斯保护区（Esopus Meadows Preserve）、铸造厂码头公园（Foundry Dock Park）以及贝扎克-哈比肖公园与潮汐沼泽（Beczak -Habirshaw Park and Tidal Marsh）。此处提供的数据集包含上述站点中人工建造的可持续岸线结构的一系列生态与物理功能测量指标。该数据集的文件格式为Excel电子表格。