by Theresa Sullivan Barger
The Day, July 11, 2025
“Seventy percent of Connecticut’s coastline is “armored,” meaning it has been engineered, protected or turned into a pier or dock, said physicist Jim O’Donnell, executive director of Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation (CIRCA), part of UConn’s Department of Marine Sciences. Examples of ‘engineered’ measures are sea walls, jetties and collections of large sloping rocks called a revetment.”
Town: Stonington
Focus Area: Flood and Sea Level Rise
Type: In the Media