Monitoring & adaptive Management
Building a Baseline
The RE:BEACH Pilot Project includes a multi-year monitoring program that documents existing conditions to track changes over time, ensuring no beach-going experiences are negatively impacted. Monitoring helps ensure that the project meets its objectives for shoreline resilience, sand retention, wave performance, and public access. Monitoring activities include:
Coastal Monitoring
Currents & Wave Data
Surf & Beach Use
Shoreline elevation profiles, drone-based topographic mapping, bathymetric surveys, and sediment transport analysis.
Continues measurements of currents, wave transmission, and circulation patterns, which have been concurrently added into numerical and physical modeling phases
Surf quality assessments using , wave breaking monitoring, surfing headcount, and beach use surveys.
All monitoring results will be publicly available to maintain transparency and inform future design decisions along Oceanside’s coastline. Data from this ongoing monitoring continually informs the RE:BEACH Adaptive Management Plan (RAMP). Adaptive management planning is a structured, iterative approach to managing projects or systems under uncertainty. It provides a process for identifying concerns about potential effects caused by a project and ensuring strategies are integrated to address them. These built-in proactive measures reduce the risk associated with implementing a project. Adaptive management planning is common in contexts like natural resource management, ecosystem restoration, climate adaptation, and resilience planning.
Dynamic Management
RAMP will establish a monitoring, evaluation, reporting, and management response framework for the Pilot Project that:
Addresses the potential range of shoreline response along the City of Carlsbad and CA State Park beaches, and Agua Hedionda Lagoon.
Provides a transparent and structured framework to determine if measured changes along the shoreline and lagoon are attributable to the Project.
Establishes response pathways should performance deviate from expectations, so that concerns can be addressed
Potential adaptive management actions, which would be initiated if shoreline effects are attributable to the Project, range from sediment management to feature modification to partial or full removal of the project.
