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The LASSO tool guides you step-by-step through the process of identifying and downloading climate change scenarios—or projections—that are relevant to your interest or research question. At each step you will define criteria that will subset climate change information from a much larger archive, with LASSO providing helpful information and suggestions along the way. At the end of the process you will have the option to download maps, figures, and GIS-ready spatial data or use an interactive scatterplot widget to customize or change your choices.

This free, easy-to-use website provides interactive maps, charts, and resources for the entire United States and can help communities understand, explore, and reduce wildfire risk. It uses the best available science to identify, and provides resources to help communities manage and mitigate, risk.

The tool is intended to be a starting point to help answer questions about community risk. It can help communities answer questions about how their risk compares to other communities in their county, state, or nationally.

Tidal marshes provide key ecosystem services, but they are threatened by sea level rise. For these ecosystems to survive, it will require active management to increase tidal marsh resilience. Thin-layer placement (TLP), an emergent adaptation strategy that mimics natural sediment deposition processes, is one of the only viable options to protect tidal marshes in their current footprint.

This resource is a companion to The Nature Conservancy’s Coastal Resilience tool and the related Restoration Explorer, a web-based application that allows users to visualize which living shoreline techniques are most appropriate for reducing erosion at specific sites along New Jersey’s coastline.

This online mapping application from FEMA identifies communities exposed to 18 natural hazards, visualizing natural hazard risk metrics and including data about expected annual losses, social vulnerabilities, and community resilience. 

The National Risk Index's interactive web maps present data at the county and census tract level via geographic information system (GIS) feature services for custom analyses. These data layers offer a holistic view of community risk to natural hazards via online maps and data.

The NRI can assist communities in:

The Chucktown Floods site gives municipalities, stakeholders in business and industry, and individual homeowners a way to navigate available resilience tools and data relevant to flooding in the Charleston County area. The site is designed to reduce barriers to accessing data associated with flooding vulnerability and enhance decision making that results in improved resilience to future flooding events in the region.

The Southeast Conservation Blueprint is the primary product of the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS), a regional conservation initiative that spans the Southeastern United States and Caribbean. The Southeast Blueprint is a living, spatial plan that identifies important areas for conservation and restoration.