Iacopo Vona¹, Manisha Thenuwara¹, Namritha Ramakrishnan¹, Peter Vein², Kelly Maren Kibler¹, Eric Sparks³, Ella Rothermel⁴, Danielle Kreeger⁵, Cynthia Lupton⁶ and Matthew Virden⁷, (1)University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, Orlando, United States, (2)University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental, & Construction Engineering, Orlando, United States, (3)Mississippi State University Coastal Research & Extension Center, Biloxi, MS, United States, (4)Partnership for the Delaware Estuary (PDE), Wilmington, DE (US), United States, (5)Drexel University, Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, United States, (6)Mississippi State University (MSU), Coastal and Marine Extension Program, Biloxi, United States, (7)Mississippi State University, Coastal and Marine Extension Program, Mississippi State, United States