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The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) owns or manages more than 25 million acres of land, representing a wide array of natural ecosystems that support numerous rare and endangered species. These lands are critical to maintaining the nation’s security by supporting military training and testing that can take place under realistic conditions. Over the coming decades, DoD installations will experience significant impacts from climate change, which could compromise their capacity to support the military mission and undermine DoD’s ability to protect and restore native species and ecosystems.

This website from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers highlights community resilience and building design and siting. It includes the Corps' Resilience Initiative Roadmap and describes how building codes can be used to increase project and community resilience. The site provides resources and links for site sustainability, site security, community resilience, buildings, and natural hazards and adaptation.

Find out what’s happening in your ocean area: Draw a custom area anywhere in U.S. waters or pick from a predefined list of locations to get instant custom reports. Reports include descriptive infographics and supporting data that can be used for offshore planning, permitting, environmental review, public relations, and more. New features allow printing by industry, sharing, and adding custom coordinates.

Report topics include:

This two-page quick reference from NOAA's Office for Coastal Management provides tips to get community members engaged in a discussion of risks. Brief sections can help you get people to open up, share their concerns, and talk about what matters to them. 

Additional training resources (courses, documents, and additional quick reference documents) can help you keep learn more about risk communication. Offerings include:

This tool brings together real-time water levels, 48-hour forecasts of water levels, and historic flooding information into one online tool to help decision makers and coastal residents understand both short-term risks—such as an approaching hurricane or nor’easter—as well as longer-term risks, such as high-tide flooding and sea level rise. Boaters and fishermen can use the tool to get information on their latest local tides.  

The Climate Change Response Framework is a collaborative effort that addresses the major challenges that land managers face when considering how to integrate climate change into their planning and management, bridging the gap between scientific research on climate change impacts and on-the-ground natural resource management. The Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science (NIACS) leads the Framework, with support from many partners (see partial list, and a link to the full list, at right).

Climate change is a growing concern for forests across Wisconsin. Foresters, land managers, and landowners are considering how to prepare for future conditions and how to evaluate risks for particular sites.

This guide, a downloadable PDF, highlights key information that can be used during field visits or forest planning. The developers hope that the guide will help foresters consider climate change risks together with local site characteristics, and help people design adaptation actions that meet management goals.

Climate indicators show trends over time in key aspects of our environment. Indicators based on long-term, consistently collected data can be used to understand how our climate and environmental conditions are changing, consider and assess risks and vulnerabilities, and help us prepare, take action, and improve resilience to the impacts of climate change.

The platform provides interactive and downloadable visualizations on climate change indicators, including: 

This database contains data and information for the United States, its territories, and possessions, from 1950 to the present, and contains over 1.2 million records. Data are updated monthly with up to a 90-day delay due to the time required to collect and verify the information.

Useres can view and download various precipitation and applications datasets from the past 60 days, including 30-minute, 1-day, 3-day, and 7-day precipitation data, floods nowcasts, and landslides nowcasts. Datasets are available in various popular formats—TIF, SHP, arcJSON, geoJSON, and topoJSON. Users can also learn how to directly access the data via the PMM Publisher API.