PREP-RI | Providing Resilience Education for Planning in Rhode Island

This in-person role-playing game gives participants a taste of what it takes to build community resilience in the face of disaster. Players work together to make decisions and solve problems during an engaging, fast-paced disaster simulation. Choose a disaster scenario (flood, hurricane, or earthquake).
Seven-day forecasts of temperature, humidity, wind speed, and cloud cover from the National Weather Service serve as inputs for Cattle Heat Stress Forecast Maps. The prediction of animal stress is based on an equation that combines weather forecast data to estimate cattle heat stress response, and produces a map showing stress categories by color. The U.S. Department of Agriculture offers daily maps for the current day and forecasted out six additional days, and provides maps for six regions of the contiguous United States.
In 2012, Pacific RISA launched a multi-year social network analysis project to examine communication patterns and how climate information spreads across different sectors and places in the Pacific Islands region. Using the December 2012 release of the Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA) report as a springboard, researchers collected data on the professional and scientific networks of climate change stakeholders.
This informational mapping viewer displays flood zones in the Hawaiian Islands using data from the Federal Emergency Management Association's Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRMs).
The viewer allows users to:
This website discusses projected sea level rise impacts in the Hawaiian Islands and offers visualizations of projected sea level rise, coastal erosion, and flooding impacts created by the Coastal Geology Group of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. The visualizations are available in various formats, including still map images, animated fly-overs, and PowerPoint presentations.
This manual is for extension professionals, tribal planners, community organizers, local planning officials, teachers, or anyone else whose task is to help individuals, families, businesses, communities, tribes, and local governments think through the meaning of climate change on the local scale, assess vulnerabilities, devise strategies for improving resilience, locate tools and resources that will help, and develop and implement plans for adaptation.
This website provides Northern Alaska coastal communities with the tools, resources, and scientific support to share their expertise and observations of environmental change. Observations currently focus on changes in sea ice, permafrost, and coastal waters. Community-based observations and the joint development of a knowledge resource on cryosphere change will be used to aid in knowledge sharing and will emphasize changes in the seasonal cycle as it affects community activities and access to resources and subsistence harvest species.
This resource was designed as both a teaching tool and a pathway for sharing information and resources amongst Bering Strait indigenous communities, spill response organizations, agencies, scientists, and the public to improve community engagement in spill response and preparedness due to increased threats posed to Arctic marine life from oil spills. The web mapping portal aggregates data from ocean waters in Norton Sound, the Bering Strait, and Kotzebue Sound.
The BSRTT consists of a Data Layer Catalog, an Interactive Ocean Portal, and Oil Spill Scenarios.