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This web application, published on Esri's Story Map platform, features three metrics that influence plant growth and survival: 

Climate change is expected to alter species distributions, modify ecological processes, and exacerbate environmental degradation. To offset these effects, the need for strategic land conservation is greater than ever. The Nature Conservancy’s Resilient and Connected Landscapes project comprehensively maps resilient lands and significant climate corridors across Eastern North America. The study took eight years to complete, involved 60 scientists, and developed innovative new techniques for mapping climate-driven movements. 

This web-based database was created to help natural resource managers and landowners identify actions for responding to climate change, providing a curated list of adaptation actions. The collection is organized by adaptation approach—click on each approach for more information on how the idea links to broader adaptation strategies and more specific management tactics. Users can browse by resource area, region, or climate change impact.

Ecosystems across the nation will be increasingly affected by a changing climate. Understanding and evaluating the climate change impacts that may impact a particular region or system is an important first step in adapting to climate change. This interactive map can help users explore how climate change may affect the region and ecosystems that they work within.

The NASA Disasters Mapping Portal promotes the use of Earth observations to improve prediction of, preparation for, response to, and recovery from natural and technological disasters. The Disasters Mapping Portal provides information and maps to support disaster response and recovery and emergency mitigation approaches, such as early warning systems.

This website provides current groundwater percentage maps for the continguous United States on a weekly basis, with an archive spanning from 2003 to the present.

The Northeast Indigenous Climate Resilience Network (NICRN) seeks to convene indigenous peoples to identify threats to indigenous self-determination and ways of life and to formulate adaptation and mitigation strategies, dialogues, and educational programs that build indigenous capacities to address climate-related issues. 

This self-assessment tool in downloadable PDF format was developed for port and marine industry leaders. It serves as a simple and inexpensive method of assessing if ports and the regional marine transportation sector are prepared to maintain operations during and after disasters.

Developed by the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium for tourism industry leaders and businesses, this tool in downloadable PDF form is a simple and inexpensive method of predicting if individual tourism businesses—and the regional tourism industry—are prepared to maintain operations during and after disasters. The coastal tourism industry can use the index to identify strengths and weaknesses in its system; the index helps to identify action items that the industry can work toward to address system vulnerabilities and maintain long-term viability.