Shoreline group to hear Sea Grant staffer

  Dare County Shoreline Management Commission will meet Tuesday, July 20, 5:30 p.m., in the Kill Devil Hills town hall.

  Spencer Rogers, coastal engineer with N.C. Sea Grant, will present information on ”How the Beach Works” and ”Outer Banks Shoreline and Beachfill Expectations.”

  For more than 30 years, Spencer Rogers has helped private property owners, builders, designers and government agencies develop hurricane resistant construction methods, understand shoreline erosion alternatives and implement marine construction techniques. He serves on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington’s Center for Marine Science and as adjunct faculty in the department of engineering at N.C. State University.

  Roger has co-authored and edited the latest edition of the FEMA Coastal Construction Manual and co-authored ”’The Dune Book,” a guidebook on dune species, planning and best management practices along shorelines. His research has been published in numerous scholarly journals, including the ”Journal of the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association,” and the ”Journal of Marine Education.” He also is a regular speaker at conferences about coastal engineering and hazards, including the annual ” Solutions to Coastal Disasters.” In 2006, Rogers was part of a select group of engineers and scientists on the FEMA Hurricane Katrina Mitigation Assessment Team to conduct a coastal damage evaluation in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama.

  Rogers joined Sea Grant in 1978, having worked as a coastal engineer for the Bureau of Beaches and Shores in the Florida Department of Natural Resources during his early career. He holds a master’s in coastal and oceanographic engineering from the University of Florida and a bachelor’s in engineering from the University of Virginia.