New Jersey Coastal Protection Technical Assistance Service (CPTAS)
Director: Jon Miller PhD
Assistant Director: Matt Janssen, PhD
The CPTAS was created by the New Jersey legislature in 1993 to serve as a resource for coastal municipalities and state agencies concerned with preserving New Jersey's ocean and bay shorelines. The purpose of CPTAS is to provide, upon request, information and advice to counties and municipalities on coastal protection methods in order to assist coastal counties and municipalities in making decisions and undertaking projects to protect, preserve, restore, enhance, and create beaches, dunes, and other coastal area resources and in constructing and maintaining coastal protection structures and devices such as jetties, bulkheads, sea walls, groins, piers, and boardwalks.
The Coastal Engineering Research Lab of the Davidson Laboratory at Stevens Institute of Technology works often under the auspices of the NJ CPTAS, performing tasks including (but not limited to):
Director: Jon Miller PhD
Assistant Director: Matt Janssen, PhD
The CPTAS was created by the New Jersey legislature in 1993 to serve as a resource for coastal municipalities and state agencies concerned with preserving New Jersey's ocean and bay shorelines. The purpose of CPTAS is to provide, upon request, information and advice to counties and municipalities on coastal protection methods in order to assist coastal counties and municipalities in making decisions and undertaking projects to protect, preserve, restore, enhance, and create beaches, dunes, and other coastal area resources and in constructing and maintaining coastal protection structures and devices such as jetties, bulkheads, sea walls, groins, piers, and boardwalks.
The Coastal Engineering Research Lab of the Davidson Laboratory at Stevens Institute of Technology works often under the auspices of the NJ CPTAS, performing tasks including (but not limited to):
- Easement analyses
- Field experiments
- Modeling
- Monitoring (and providing monitoring guidance)
- Topography surveying
- Storm Erosion Index (SEI) development