Sands of Time: New Jersey’s Shore at the Brink

August 6, 2023

Revisiting a classic conversation on ASP!

In this favorite episode, hosts Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham dive deep with Andrew S. Lewis, exploring his captivating New York Times Magazine piece, "The Long, Slow Drowning of the New Jersey Shore." A culmination of the Pulitzer Center’s Connected Coastlines reporting project and adorned with striking visuals from Devin Oktar Yalkin, Lewis's article paints a vivid picture of the multi-dimensional challenges facing New Jersey’s coastline. Join us as we navigate the stories of the people at the heart of this issue - from the scientists and coastal managers to the artists and local leaders - and ponder on the evolving future of the New Jersey shore.

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Peter Ravella & Tyler Buckingham

Peter and Tyler joined forces in 2015 and from the first meeting began discussing a project that would become Coastal News Today and the American Shoreline Podcast Network. At the time, Peter and Tyler were coastal consultants for Pete’s firm, PAR Consulting, LLC. In that role, they worked with coastal communities in Texas, Florida, and North Carolina, engaged in grant writing, coastal project development, shoreline erosion and land use planning, permitting, and financial planning for communities undertaking big beach restoration projects. Between and among their consulting tasks, they kept talking and kept building the idea of CNT & ASPN. In almost every arena they worked, public engagement played a central role. They spent thousands of hours talking with coastal stakeholders, like business owners, hotel operators, condo managers, watermen, property owners, enviros, surfers, and fishermen. They dived deep into the value, meaning, and responsibility for the American shoreline, segment-by-segment. Common threads emerged, themes were revealed, differences uncovered. There was a big conversation going on along the American shoreline! But, no place to have it. That's where CNT and ASPN were born.