About ALBERT / Chesapeake Bay

Begin with the coast.
Keep the reasoning.

ALBERT makes coastal analysis and shoreline geometry accessible to engineers, designers and stewards of the shoreline.

Automated Littoral Bay Equilibrium Rendering Tool

From a coastal concept
to a considered project.

The browser workspace explores static-equilibrium embayment planforms using the parabolic bay shape equation. It also offers premium coastal analyses and reports under existing browser access.

ALBERT for Civil 3D is in development. The intended next step connects that coastal context with native editable layout and accepted, confirmed grading. A rendered curve or schematic preview is not a validated design; site conditions, input quality and engineering review remain essential.

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Portrait of Albert McCullough

In dedication

Albert McCullough,
PE, PWS

This application is dedicated to Albert McCullough, a pioneer in coastal engineering and shoreline restoration who applied the static-equilibrium methodology to create stable, dynamic living shorelines throughout the Chesapeake Bay and its surrounding watersheds.

Published foundations

Methods you
can follow.

The existing browser geometry credits Hsu & Evans (1989). The references below support the browser analyses and are preserved in their engineering reports. Their presence does not validate the planned native Civil 3D implementation.

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    Hsu & Evans (1989); Hsu et al. (2021)

    The parabolic bay shape equation — the static-equilibrium embayment planform every shoreline in the tool is rendered from.

    Hsu, Lee, Klein, González & Medina — "Headland-Bay Beaches: Static Equilibrium Concept for Shoreline Management" (World Scientific, 2021).

  2. 02

    Smith (1991)

    Wind-wave generation on restricted fetches — the growth relations behind the premium browser wave generation analysis.

    Smith, J.M. (1991). "Wind-Wave Generation on Restricted Fetches." Miscellaneous Paper CERC-91-2, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Coastal Engineering Research Center, Vicksburg, MS.

  3. 03

    Shore Protection Manual (1984)

    Structure sizing — Hudson armor stone, crest width and layer thickness, wave runup, and toe protection for the headland breakwater section.

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (1984). "Shore Protection Manual," 4th ed., Vol. II. U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Coastal Engineering Research Center, Vicksburg, MS. (Eqs. 7-116, 7-120, 7-121, 7-125; Tables 7-8, 7-13; Figures 7-20, 7-116, 7-120.)

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    Blaauw et al. (1984); USACE (2011)

    Vessel-wake analysis — the maximum secondary wave height equation with the revised coefficients.

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District (2011). "Reanalysis of Ship Forces at the Shoreline, Savannah Harbor Expansion Project." (Blaauw et al. 1984 wake equation with revised Eqs. 12 and 15.)

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    UMCES (2023)

    Sea-level-rise projections — the SLR allowance in the premium browser structure-sizing crest-elevation stack-up.

    Boesch, D.F., et al. (2023). "Sea-Level Rise Projections for Maryland 2023." University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, MD. (Appendix 1, Baltimore.)

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    NOAA NDBC

    Full-record wind climatology — the observed station winds behind the wind/wave rose and the governing wave condition.

    NOAA National Data Buoy Center, historical standard meteorological archives (station wind records).