Summary
The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is in providing clear and measurable environmental benefits by restoring shorelines, enhancing benthic infauna, seagrass habitats, and federally protected mangrove areas. By potentially reducing wave energy by up to 70%, mitigating erosion and flood risks, it would protect local communities and could become the preferred first line of defense against beach erosion and marine life habitat destruction in the nation. The company’s proprietary honeycomb reef arch structures would allow for beach restora
