The University of Michigan (U-M) Water Center is pleased to announce the outcome of this year ’s competition for research and integrated assessment projects under NOAA ’s National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) Science Collaborative.

As part of the 2010 Hudson River Sustainable Shorelines project, the project team conducted this forensic analysis of six sites on the Hudson River to study how each site responded to severe storms.

This handbook, the result of a 2010 Collaborative Research project, offers suggestions for practical ways that landowners and land managers can protect shore zones and increase the benefits they provide.