In 2013 the Marin (California) Carbon Project launched a year-long carbon farming program on three farms in West Marin: Stemple Creek Ranch (700 acres), Straus Dairy (500 acres), and Corda Ranch (in t ...

Summary: Ranchers are participating in a pilot project to improve carbon storage and reduce net greenhouse gas emissions. After quantifying their baseline emissions and carbon storage, they implement conservation practices that may let them tap into revenue from voluntary carbon markets.

Where is El Niño?  How is this year different from 2012 when El Niño was predicted, but never arrived?  

Summary: State and local decision makers perform analyses on this system of maps depicting sensitive coastal habitats, living resources, and human uses to inform their coastal planning processes.

Summary: Faced with episodic high-tide flooding, partners in Charleston, South Carolina, calculated the potential extent and frequency of similar flooding in the future. Focus group feedback on this information helped organizers design an informative fact sheet.

Areas of Charleston expected to be inundated by tides higher than seven feet above Mean Lower Low Water are shown in dark blue. Adding 1.6 feet of sea level rise to these high tides is expected to inc ...

Summary: Residents along the U.S. Gulf Coast are familiar with the flooding hazards associated with storms, yet many are unaware of the risk of sea level rise. Shoppers at a local mall had a chance to explore the potential impacts of sea level rise on their communities.

Summary: For many decades, farmers built low walls or dikes across coastal wetlands in Oregon to extend their farmland. Now, efforts to restore wetlands and prepare for sea level rise require information about where these dikes are and who is responsible for them.

CPO's Laura Petes is the lead author of "Science integration into U. S. climate and ocean policy," which appeared in the August issue of Nature Climate Change . The pace of environmental change lends ...

Model outputs produced for portions of the Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge predict that brackish marshes will move inland to areas that are currently freshwater habitat by 2050. The project team wor ...