Sea Grant programs receive awards through NOAA Climate Resilience Regional Challenge

August 22, 2024

The NOAA Office for Coastal Management’s Climate Resilience Regional Challenge is funding projects to increase resilience to extreme weather events and address longer-term, chronic climate hazards. This one-time, $575 million competitive grant program is providing the opportunity to collaboratively implement transformational regional projects that will build immediate and long-term resilience in coastal areas.

As part of this historic funding, Hawaiʻi Sea Grant and partners were awarded $68.5 million to bolster climate resilience in Hawaiʻi by restoring forest, watershed, coastal and marine ecosystems and enhancing community governance of resources for long-term sustainability.

In a separate project, Washington Sea Grant and the Climate Impacts Group, both based at the University of Washington College of the Environment, received a subaward of $8.1 million to strengthen local capacity in responding to climate hazards on the Washington coast.

Additional Sea Grant programs were listed as partners on further awards:

Alaska Sea Grant — Bristol Bay Climate Adaptation Planning Program
Maine Sea Grant — Resilient Maine: Local Adaptation and Resilience Actions at a Coastwide Scale
Minnesota Sea Grant — Advancing Regional Climate Resilience for Minnesota’s Lake Superior Coastal Region
New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium — Building a Climate Ready New Jersey

Hallee Meltzer

Communications Coordinator
National Sea Grant Office

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