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 ...

Summary: At South Carolina's Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge, rising seas are threatening the habitats of wetland species. A team modeled how marshes in the refuge are likely to migrate in response to sea level rise, and set targets for conserving additional land for habitats.

Summary: Zoom in or enter an address to view local maps of Delaware’s shoreline; adjust a slider to see areas likely to be inundated by various sea level rise scenarios.

Tybee Island at current mean higher high water (left) and with three feet of sea level rise (right). Source : . NOAA Digital Coast. Image credit: NOAA Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding ...