Bret Webb

Bret has over 20 years of experience in coastal engineering design, inspections, analysis, and field investigations, and is a nationally recognized leader in the design of nature-based solutions, coastal modeling, and coastal engineering technology transfer.

Bret often is an invited speaker on national panels about how to engineer beach and marsh stabilization projects with minimal use of coastal structures to maximize the natural features and habitat. He was the lead developer on a multi-year R&D effort by the USDOT FHWA to develop their national guidance manual on Nature-Based Solutions for resilience. Bret is also the author of the FHWA’s manual on coastal modeling and a co-author of the FHWA’s primary guidance manual for coastal highway planning and design. He was the lead coastal engineer on a National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine research project that developed engineering practice guidance to account for climate change in transportation infrastructure design. And he is currently working a follow-up National Academies’ project to incorporation that climate guidance into engineering standards and codes.

Bret is a leading expert in nature-based solutions research, design, implementation, and monitoring. Bret has experience with a wide range of nature-based solutions including beaches, dunes, marshes, seagrass, mangroves, and reef systems.