Shoreline Environmental Research Facility

The Shoreline Environmental Research Facility (SERF) endeavors to parallel its research strategies such that they align with those of national significance. Specifically, SERF's programmatic research theme is similar to that proposed by the National Science Foundation (NSF), entitled “Collaborative Large-Scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research”, or CLEANER. CLEANER is an initiative for collaborative research to support adaptive and sustainable environmental management, with the ultimate objective of facilitating a dynamic network for national and international coastal margins research and policy-making.

SERF stresses sensor development, deployment, and applications for data collection (both geo-referenced fine-scale spatial surveys and fixed-point time-series), information synthesis, and analysis for integrative predictive whole coastal ecosystem modeling based on in-situ continuous, periodic, and episodic monitoring.