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Review of Case Materials
Reviews records, documents, testimony, data, and other relevant materials and consults with counsel regarding technical issues related to the matter.
Provide Expert Analysis
Applies specialized knowledge and experience to evaluate the technical or professional issues involved.
Form Expert Opinions
Develops independent, supportable opinions based on the available evidence and relevant standards.
Prepare Expert Reports
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Waves and currents move sand and other sediment along and across shorelines. Where sediment losses exceed the material supplied to an area, the shoreline may retreat; where sediment accumulates, the shoreline may advance. Jetties, groins, seawalls, dredging, beach nourishment, and other coastal development or shoreline modifications can change sediment-transport patterns. Historical shoreline positions, sediment information, wave conditions, surveys, and aerial or satellite imagery can help evaluate how those patterns changed over time.
Coastal development may need to account for shoreline movement, wave exposure, storm conditions, scour, drainage, sediment transport, foundation conditions, and interaction with nearby coastal structures. Depending on the project, engineers may also evaluate whether proposed improvements could alter water or sediment movement along neighboring shoreline areas. Plans, modeling, surveys, permits, construction records, and site data can be examined to assess how these conditions were addressed in the project.
Evaluation can consider a structure's geometry, materials, toe or foundation conditions, wave exposure, drainage, scour, displacement, settlement, and the shoreline response around it. Design drawings, inspections, surveys, photographs, storm history, and post-event measurements can be compared with the observed conditions. This analysis can help assess whether the damage is consistent with wave loading, erosion or scour, undermining, construction conditions, longer-term shoreline change, or a combination of factors.
Prepares clear, well-supported expert reports outlining methodology, analysis, findings, and opinions.
Provide Deposition Testimony
Explains findings and opinions under oath and responds to questioning during deposition testimony.
Testify in Court
Presents specialized findings and opinions clearly to judges, juries, arbitrators, or other decision-makers.
