On May 15, 2000, the South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium issued a Request for Proposals to initiate field research under Phase II of the South Carolina/ Georgia Coastal Erosion Study. Up to $500,000 in Fiscal Year 99 funds was made available to initiate support of multidisciplinary research programs. Proposals were received by the Consortium on July 5,2000 and were subjected to an extensive peer review process. The projects initiated September 1, 2000 are listed below.

The Sea Grant Consortium cooperators started the third year of study in September 2002, and products are now being compiled. The primray goal with respect to data products is to produce interpreted data-products in a digital format for web-based and CD-based data access.

The current projects within the overall study are as follows:

	SC-GA Coastal Erosion Study: GIS data compilation, data management, and shoreline change study
	Geologic framework of Grand Strand barrier island complexes: Implications for sediment volumes and rates of sediment transport
	Geologic framework for Grand Strand barrier region: Distribution and character of near-surface geologic strata at the active coast
	Framework geology of the active shoreface along the Grand Strand region of South Carolina: Linking the beach and inner shelf
	Variation and controls of beach morphology along the coast of South Carolina
	Surf zone and continental shelf sediment transport currents, Long Bay, South Carolina
	An integrated GIS-based approach to quantifying the rates of, and geologic controls on, shoreline change in the Georgia Bight
	SC/GA Coastal Erosion Study: Outreach and education