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Healthy Port Futures

The Healthy Port Futures Project is a collaboration between Sean Burkholder and Theresa Ruswick at the University of Pennsylvania and Brian Davis of the University of Virginia. The project is funded through the Great Lakes Protection Fund and aims to reconsider methods of coastal engineering and sediment management in and around small and medium-sized ports in the Great Lakes Basin. The focus on these ports, many of which occupy ecologically-valuable rivermouth locations provides an opportunity to test strategies that are more contextually sensitive and responsive. These strategies provide a valuable counterpoint to more blunt methods, designed as best management practices and applicable everywhere. Instead, Healthy Port Futures operates on the assumption that contextual conditions not only matter, but can be foundational to coastal design and management, something that is of particular value when considering the intermingled cultural, ecological and economic forces acting upon rivermouth port communities.

This work was honored with a 2020 National ASLA Honor Award in the Analysis & Planning category.

Led By: Sean Burkholder




Iterative Physical Modeling

Timelapse imagery of iterative sediment transport experiments. These models allow for the easy comparison of different morphological configurations and transformations under wave action.
 
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© The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology
Office of the Director

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210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104