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Category: Sustainable Coastal Developement

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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.

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June 11, 2024
High Fidelity Numerical Model
Hazard Resilient Coastal Communities

MIT Sea Grant Researchers Hope to Mitigate Coastal Flooding Problems with New Model

MIT Sea Grant Assistant Director for Research Stefano Brizzolara and visiting PhD student Riccardo Angelini Rota are working on a new numerical model to simulate the complex physics that happen in the near-shore region to waves. Due to climate change, they explain, the level of the ocean will rise significantly in the next fifty to one hundred years. Their goal is to simulate the risks of flooding in different areas of the Northeast region in advance in order to be prepared and react with mitigation or adaptation strategies. The model is based on a Smoothed Particles Hydrodynamic (SPH) solver, which helps them reproduce the hydrodynamic phenomena in coastal areas, specifically in the surf region. Brizzolara and Rota plan to reproduce problems like over-topping in a sea wall or in a sea structure and the run up of waves. They explain that the reason this new model is so unique is because many of the models that currently exist are able to arrive quite close to the coast but not in the particular region where the non-linear phenomena they want to record occur. With this new numerical method, the researchers seek to extend the predictions of the current numerical models to the areas more affected by inundations and flooding.

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August 12, 2014
Climate

MIT Sea Grant Hosts a Climate Change Symposium on Sustaining Coastal Cities

Leaders in academia, government, and private industry will address concerns for change in sea level, storm surges, extreme precipitation and flooding and options for adapting to these risks. With shared knowledge and increased understanding, the objective of this conference is to identify ways in which representatives of the various sectors in attendance may wisely use, manage, and protect coastal areas now and in the future.

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May 20, 2014
Climate

Oregon Leads National Survey That Reveals Coastal Concerns over Climate Change

New survey led by Oregon Sea Grant across eight coastal states found that that while the American public may be divided about whether climate change is happening, coastal managers and elected officials are not.  Three quarters of coastal professionals surveyed – and 70% of all participants – said they believe that the climate in their area is changing.

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March 10, 2014
Extension

Dredge material from Toledo Harbor gains new life in engineered soil

Dredging shipping channels is an unavoidable part of harbor maintenance across the Great Lakes.  But once the sediment is removed from the shipping channel, where does it go? Funded by Ohio Sea Grant  Dr. Elizabeth Dayton, Research Scientist in Ohio State University’s School of Environment & Natural Resources, is working to reuse of up to 100,000 cubic yards of dredge material per year.

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February 18, 2014
Extension

Dredge material from Toledo Harbor gains new life in engineered soil

Dredging shipping channels is an unavoidable part of harbor maintenance across the Great Lakes.  But once the sediment is removed from the shipping channel, where does it go? Funded by Ohio Sea Grant  Dr. Elizabeth Dayton, Research Scientist in Ohio State University’s School of Environment & Natural Resources, is working to reuse of up to 100,000 cubic yards of dredge material per year.

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February 18, 2014
Extension

Dune it Right

Dunes are dynamic entities, they accrete and deplete, get damaged in coastal storms, and suffer through abuse by humans.  In an attempt to mitigate the damage, New Jersey coastal communities often plan Ammophilia seedlings to deliberately construct dune systems to act like barriers against coastal damage during storms, effectually shoring up the coast. However, there’s a fatal flaw in this approach.

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January 17, 2014
Education

Get to Know the Great Lakes through FieldScope

If you were to pour a bucket of water in your yard, where would the water end up? Great Lakes FieldScope is a new interactive mapping tool that will help explore what happens to that water. Students, teachers, and nature enthusiasts can share and analyze real-world data, including observations they took themselves!

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December 30, 2013

VIDEO: Tracking the Impact of Wisconsin River Cleanup

The Great Lakes, a vital asset to 35 million residents, have a legacy of pollution due to our nation's industrial past. The Great Lakes Legacy Act revitalizes rivers, lakes, and harbors, helping to restore lost benefits. This video outlines the Great Lakes Legacy Act and highlights benefits it brings to communities. 

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November 22, 2013
Great Lakes

New Tool Helps Planners Steer Clear of Tipping Points

Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant is leading the effort to develop an online tool that allows community planners to make informed decisions regarding land use by identifying how watershed ecosystems will look in the future if current land use practices continue or are ramped up.

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November 12, 2013
Climate

Sobering findings from new Sea Grant climate study

A new climate study from University of Hawai’i Sea Grant found that most of the earth will routinely experience a climate unlike anything on record by 2047.  More shocking, is the finding that the tropics may experience these unprecedented temperatures in as early as seven years.

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October 23, 2013
Waterfront in Valdez
Announcements

Introducing a New Resource to Help our Nation’s “Working Waterfront’s” Flourish

Imagine Boston, Charleston, San Francisco or Seattle without fresh seafood, pleasure boats or shipping vessels. It is an impossible task. The history, culture and identity of these communities are inextricably linked to their “working waterfronts,” which are places for active, water-related commerce and desirable areas in which to live and work. Unfortunately, many of these working waterfronts face a growing number of challenges. 

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April 12, 2013
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