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Jan. 25, 2013
Shoring Up the Nation's Crumbling Coastlines
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Hurricane Sandy pummeled the beaches of the Northeast, stripping away sand and dunes, and ploughing through seawalls. Can beaches be rebuilt to face fiercer storms and rising seas? And is there even enough sand to do it? Ira Flatow and guests discuss engineering the nation's coasts for "the new normal."
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Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer
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Jeffress Williams
Senior scientist emeritus
U.S. Geological Survey
Woods Hole Science Center
Woods Hole, Massachusetts -
Robert Young
Director, Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines
Professor, Coastal Geology
Western Carolina University
Cullowhee, North Carolina -
Keith Watson
Civil engineer
Project manager, Philadelphia district
Army Corps of Engineers
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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