ULINK Project

The City of Miami Beach has partnered with the University of Miami's Laboratory for Integrative Knowledge ("ULINK") Coastal Resilience Team an innovative project to develop and test coastal resilience strategies that combine grey and green infrastructures to reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities.

Project Phases

Phase 1 of the Project consisted of developing and testing restoration strategies that combine gray (cement-based) and green (nature-based) defenses to protect our coast, has been completed. Phase 2 of the Project, includes completing a vulnerability and physical modeling to move the project into implementation and deployment.

City staff has been working with the ULINK Coastal Resilience team in order to implement the phase 2 of this project. The pilot will test the performance of coral fragments mounted onto modules under natural conditions and then, coral survivorship and growth will be monitored at pilot sites. The ULINK Coastal Resilience team used their one-of-a-kind wave tank at the SUSTAIN lab to test different man-made reef designs under simulated storm wind and wave conditions in order to determine the best structures to be placed during the pilot.

Resolution 2019-31066

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