Coastal Community Resilience Index

November 14, 2014

Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium

Gulf coastal communities expressed the need for baseline data they could use to assess how they are progressing towards their goals to become more resilient. This self-assessment tool helps communities identify vulnerabilities, capitalize on strengths, and assess future impacts of natural disasters. It has been completed by 47 communities across the Gulf of Mexico with 74 facilitators trained to deliver the tool and provide technical assistance to the communities in which they live and work. An accompanying small grants program provides communities financial resources needed to address action items identified in the self-assessment.
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Alaska

Biden-Harris Administration invests $60 million to build a climate-ready workforce through Investing in America agenda

Today, the Department of Commerce and NOAA announced $60 million in funding to help train and place people in jobs that advance a climate-ready workforce for coastal and Great Lakes states, Tribes and Territories as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda under the Inflation Reduction Act. To date, awards like these from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda have created more than 270,000 jobs across the country.

The funding will support nine projects around the nation, with $50 million going directly to the projects and $10 million for technical assistance to support the grantees.

Sea Grant Aquaculture Academy in New Hampshire

Sea Grant aquaculture professionals from across the country convened in Portsmouth, NH in early April for a 4-day intensive “Sea Grant Aquaculture Academy” hosted by New Hampshire Sea Grant with support from North Carolina Sea Grant.

Sea Grant takes center stage in Oceanography special issue

NOAA Sea Grant-funded research and work with coastal and Great Lakes communities across the nation are being highlighted in a special issue of “Oceanography,” the official journal of The Oceanography Society.

This special issue, published in April 2024, features 36 articles contributed by Sea Grant authors across 29 programs and the NOAA National Sea Grant Office.