“In recent years, researchers from UNF with funding from TERI have been investigating geomicrobial soil improvement as a sustainable method for shoreline stabilization. The concept of geomicrobial soil improvement is to use either naturally occurring bacteria or the enzymes they produce to start a chain reaction that ultimately results in calcium carbonate precipitation. The calcium carbonate makes the soil more erosion resistant, and the treatment relies solely on sustainable ingredients. UNF’s work is unique in the sense that they have been working on a “one-and-done” treatment technique/recipe where the shoreline would only need to be treated once because such a technique would be feasible in real-world applications. To date, researchers have adapted, optimized, and tested a recipe dubbed “Bioslurry” that appears to provide erosion protection for hurricane-strength storms based upon bench-scale experiments. This has led to several conference papers at Geo-Congress and two full-length journal articles in the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. Ongoing work includes securing funding to upscale Bioslurry treatments and test these larger-scale treatments under simulated real-world conditions.”