Let Living Shoreline Vegetation Do Its Job to Stop Coastal Erosion (VIDEO)

On January 21, 2016, Virginia Sea Grant Graduate Research Fellow Yonqian Yang of Virginia Tech was challenged to tell an audience of non-scientists about his research. Yang’s presentation discussed how vegetation in living shorelines reduces wave energy hitting the shore—better than some rocky sills.

Yang presented at the 2016 Virginia Sea Grant Symposium.

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