Evolving Coastal Management in Hawaii with Dr. Chip Fletcher

On this episode, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham talk with Dr. Chip Fletcher, the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Vice-Chair of the Honolulu Climate Change Commission, and the leader of the Coastal Geology Group, which recently published a study that found that Hawaii's beaches were at an even bigger threat to due to sea level rise and trends toward hardening the shoreline. While the science is familiar around the American Shoreline, Chip and his Group are not only studying the physical shoreline, but also considering new policies might help governments manage SLR and save the beaches for the next generation.