Coastal Restoration

 Part of Steve's job is to do coastal restoration so this weekend he went down to Rockefeller with some students from Clemson to plant Spartina and to install some rings for oysters to grow on.  The idea is the concrete rings provide a substrate for the oysters to attach to along a predominantly muddy coast.  The land continues to sink but the oysters should keep growing and create a wave break, especially important during large storms.
The Spartina grass is native and should collect sediment to slow the loss of land.

Above are the interlocking rings just before they are put in place (below).