The Chester Climate Adaptation Team produced this series of 11 interactive Google Maps to assess the risk to the City’s population, infrastructure, and environment from varying levels of flooding. The NOAA Sea Level and Overland Surges from Hurricanes (SLOSH) storm surge models help visualize inundation from categories 1-4 hurricane storm surge using newly analyzed LiDAR elevations. FEMA 100 and 500 year flood maps are also available for comparison.
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.
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.
Sea Grant’s work addresses a range of coastal and marine challenges through four focus areas: healthy coastal ecosystems, sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, environmental literacy and