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Using participatory modeling and citizen science to help blue crab fishermen in South Carolina identify ways to adapt to a changing climate
South Carolina Sea Grant The S.C. Sea Grant Consortium, in partnership with the Social and Environmental Research Institute, is working with blue crab fishermen in
April 14, 2015
Alaska
Alaska Sea Grant helps coastal Alaska village develop and implement a climate change adaptation strategy
Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory agent Terry Johnson and others assisted the village of Shaktoolik with planning and implementing measures to “defend in place” against coastal storms.
January 17, 2015
Announcements
Sea Grant Tools Help Communities Become More Resilient
This National Sea Grant Resilience Toolkit allows people to learn about tools from across the entire Sea Grant network giving users the opportunity to adapt tools for their own local needs. Each entry includes a description of the tools, a link for more information, and a point of contact.
January 8, 2015
Climate
The land also rises (and falls)
Vertical land movement, caused by sediment settling, groundwater extraction, and tectonic forces, can boost or reduce the local effects of global sea level rise. Conventional wisdom says that the offshore collision of two continental plates is pushing up Washington’s and Oregon’s coastlines. This assumption may make coastal communities complacent about climate change and sea level rise. Using tidal-gauge and GPS readings, Washington Sea Grant’s Ian Miller and colleagues have found that vertical land movement actually varies dramatically along Washington’s shores. While the Olympic Coast’s northwest corner is rising, the land is actually subsiding as little as 30 miles down the coast – and along densely populated Puget Sound. Communities need local data to prepare for rising seas.
December 22, 2014
Climate and Hazard Adaptation
Port Asset Matrix
The Port Asset Matrix helps communities appraise the current value of their navigational and port infrastructure, allowing them to project the potential costs of maintaining or replacing these resources in the face of changing water levels and storm conditions caused by climate variation.
December 9, 2014
Climate
Great Lakes Coastal Community Climate Adaptation Checklist
This checklist of climate-related decision points can help coastal communities smoothly integrate climate change data into their ongoing planning processes.
December 9, 2014
Climate
Climate Change Implications and Adaptation Strategies for Great Lakes Ports, Harbors and Marinas
This Wisconsin Sea Grant fact sheet offers some adaptation strategies for adapting to the impacts of climate change on shipping and boating infrastructure.
December 9, 2014
Climate and Hazard Adaptation
Storm Transposition to Promote Climate Resilience
Storm transposition is being applied in the Manitowoc River watershed to demonstrate why Wisconsin communities should invest in building resilience to climate change.
December 9, 2014
Extension
New Jersey Coastal Community Resilience Demonstration Project: Pilot Communities: Cape May Point, Little Silver, Oceanport
Coastal communities across the nation are faced with the challenge of how to adapt to coastal inundation associated with climate change and sea level rise. As part of the National Sea Grant Coastal Communities Climate Adaptation Initiative (CCCAI), the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC) and its partners, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Office of Coastal Management (NJOCM), Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute (UCI) and Stevens Institute of Technology, conducted community-based, climate adaptation demonstration projects in Cape May Point, Little Silver and Oceanport, New Jersey.
December 5, 2014
Climate and Hazard Adaptation
North Kingstown Coastal Resilience Pilot
A model document for incorporating coastal hazards and climate change into state mandated Local Comprehensive Planning, together with maps that assess vulnerability, and recommendations based on lessons learned from other places for the community to adapt to rising seas.
December 5, 2014
Climate
Building Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change through Local Conservation Efforts
Using South Kingstown Land Trust as a pilot, tools have been identified for use by local conservation organizations in Rhode Island and beyond to assess vulnerability and identify strategies to begin to implement adaptation actions through conservation, management, and investment.
December 5, 2014
Climate
Chester Climate Adaptation Team
The Chester Climate Adaptation Team, including Pennsylvania Sea Grant, has the capacity to assist with community engagement to assess climate vulnerabilities, consider solutions, and to plan steps for a more resilient community.
December 5, 2014
Education
Ecofore Website about Lake Erie Hypoxia
The project created, tested and applied models to forecast how anthropogenic (land use, invasive species) and natural (climatic variability) stresses influence hypoxia formation and ecology, with an emphasis on fish production.
December 5, 2014
Climate
Online Decision Support Tool about Climate Change and Whitefish
Decision-support tools to help make decisions on managing a key fishery by incorporating information, accounting for uncertainties, or evaluating trade-offs between alternative choices.
December 5, 2014
Climate
Climate Fact Sheet Series
Four fact sheets addressing distinction between weather and climate, preparing for extreme conditions, variable lake levels, and climate variability
December 5, 2014
Climate
Climate and Water Quality Diagram
The Climate and Water Quality diagram is used for public outreach to show interaction of climate, water quality, land use and invasive species.
December 5, 2014
Climate
Tracking Salt Marshes: Impacts of Sea Level Rise
Over the past 200 years, Rhode Island has lost over 50 percent of its salt marshes due to coastal development, resulting in a loss of approximately 4,000 acres statewide. Rhode Island Sea Grant and partners are working to develop the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM). The model will be used to help identify the most vulnerable areas to target for protection and restoration.
November 10, 2014
Announcements
SG Law Center Funded Legal Research Report
Sea Grant coordinated a project to explore the legal authority, measures and consequences associated with the use of new 100 year floodplain maps by coastal communities in New Hampshire.
October 28, 2014
Climate and Hazard Adaptation
Community Adaptation Outcome Matrix
New Hampshire Sea Grant helped identify community adaptation strategies for the partner members of the Coastal Adaptation Workgroup (CAW), including a matrix of over 40 actions that communities can take to improve their climate adaptation capacity and implementation.
October 28, 2014
WeTables
These are participatory mapping tools that a number of Sea Grant programs are using for community-based work addressing both climate and stormwater issues.
October 28, 2014
Climate and Hazard Adaptation
The Crow’s Nest Blog
Since 2011, New Hampshire Sea Grant has helped to develop and contribute to “The Crow's Nest” blog about climate adaptation in New Hampshire, which is available on StormSmart Coasts, as a tool to communicate timely information about events and resources available to communities related to adaptation
October 28, 2014
Climate and Hazard Adaptation
The Crow’s Nest Electronic Newsletter
“The Crow’s Nest” is an electronic newsletter about climate adaptation in New Hampshire.
October 28, 2014
Fishermen Rescue Project – DRAFT
MIT Sea Grant is working with fishing community representatives to develop the Fishermen Rescue Project (FRP); a community based program geared towards developing a best management guide for responding to fishing emergencies and managing media relations.
October 27, 2014
Climate
Climate Change Symposium on Sustaining Coastal Cities
MIT Sea Grant (MITSG) recently hosted the Climate Change Symposium on Sustaining Coastal Cities, a three-day conference that brought together regional partners and stakeholders from academia, non-profit organizations, federal, state, and local governments, to discuss major issues and facilitate regional collaborations.
October 27, 2014
Climate
MIT Sea Grant Climate Change Web Site
MIT Sea Grant Climate Change Web Site features resources that promote climate literacy, along with tools useful for assessing vulnerability and improving planning processes
October 27, 2014
Climate
Natural Hazard and Climate Change Adaptation Tool Kit for Delaware Communities
This toolkit was developed to assist communities in identifying planning, mitigation and adaptation opportunities that will help reduce vulnerabilities to natural hazards and climate impacts.
October 24, 2014
Climate
Connecticut Climate Adaptation Academy
Climate Adaptation Academy is a one-day session on topics relevant to municipal commission members (Planning and Zoning, Inland Wetlands, Conservation), municipal officials, coastal engineers and other interested professionals.
October 23, 2014
Climate
Former Vice President Al Gore Headlines Sustainability Conference
Former Vice President Al Gore gave a rousing seminar to discuss climate change science and sustainability at University of Hawaii Sea Grant.
July 7, 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.
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.
March 10, 2014
Announcements
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore to Present the Stephen and Marylyn Pauley Seminar in Sustainability at UH Manoa
The Pauley Seminar is Capstone of Ascent: Energy and Water Sustainability, Presented by: University of Hawai‘i at MÄnoa Chancellor Tom Apple, U.S. Senator Brian Schatz, and the University of Hawai‘i Sea Grant College Program April 15
February 5, 2014
Climate
A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall
Backed by University of Wisconsin Sea Grant, a grad student will use a concept called storm transposition to show Wisconsin communities why they may want to invest in climate change resilience.
January 23, 2014
Hawaii
Achieving Smart Growth in ‘Ewa, Hawai‘i
University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program convened a nationally recognized team of experts to create viable, long-term solutions that elevate the quality of life within the existing and developing communities in 'Ewa, Hawai'i.
November 25, 2013
Climate
Adapting to Sea Level Rise in a Coastal Megacity
In an effort to safeguard valuable areas along the coastline, the City of L.A. engaged the University of Southern California (USC) Sea Grant Program to develop AdaptLA, a city-led science-based and stakeholder-supported adaptation planning process and vulnerability assessment
November 15, 2013
Climate
A Year After Sandy: Sea Grant and Coastal Storm Awareness
The Sea Grant network has been actively engaged in both the short term and long term recovery for those impacted by Sandy.
October 30, 2013
Climate
Sea Grant and UGA help communities plan for the future
Georgia Sea Grant, University of Georgia, and North Carolina Sea Grant are launching a project to help St. Marys, GA and Hyde County, NC plan for sea level rise, increased coastal flooding and intensified storm surges.
October 28, 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.
October 23, 2013
Announcements
Climate Field Notes
This report documents the results of projects in eight states, led by Oregon Sea Grant. We used a risk-communication framework to provide assistance to coastal communities.
September 27, 2013
Will Septic Systems Fail to Protect Sensitive Ecosystems?
George Loomis, a soil scientist and director of the New England Onsite Wastewater Training Center at the University of Rhode Island, is part of a research team supported by Sea Grant that is looking at the current designs and parameters for septic systems against various climate change scenarios.
August 28, 2013
NOAA Sea Grant Funding Supports Community Climate Adaptation
The winning projects of the climate adaptation initiative represent a diverse array of regions and challenges, and highlight to power of communities working together to address far-reaching challenges, partnering with universities and government to ensure the best science available is used to inform public decisions.
August 26, 2013
Forecasting Sea level Rise in Maryland
Scientists release new projections for future sea level rise for the Chesapeake Bay and for Maryland, Virginia and nearby Mid-Atlantic coastal areas. In these, regions sea levels are rising faster than the global average, the result of subsiding lands, a slowing Gulf Stream and melting land ice in Antarctica.
For more information on this study see Maryland Sea Grant
July 19, 2013
University of Wisconsin Sea Grant creates Great lakes Climate Adaptation Checklist
University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute has released the Great Lakes Coastal Community Climate Adaptation Checklist. This resources was created by Outreach Specialist David Hart and Grad Student Evan Murdock.
April 12, 2013
Connecticut
Create a Rain Garden with new NOAA Sea Grant-funded app
Rain Garden, a new free iPhone app, guides users on how to create and install rain gardens that curtail runoff of pollutants, prevent erosion, and provide wildlife habitat. Development of the app was funded by the NOAA Sea Grant Climate Change Adaptation Capacity Building Initiative and developed by Connecticut Sea Grant and the University of Connecticut Center for Land Use Education and Research.
April 12, 2013