Southeast

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System (MARACOOS) gathers marine and coastal data and makes them available as accessible information products. MARACOOS focuses their research on coastal hazards, fisheries, maritime and commerce safety, energy ,and water quality, working to bolster the economy as well as local ecosystems and citizens. The group makes an effort to collaborate with people who work directly in the Mid-Atlantic area in order to ensure the quality of their data.

The Gulf of Mexico Coastal Observing System (GCOOS) coordinates information gathered by federal, state and private partners, ensuring that data are timely, reliable, accurate and available to everyone — from weather forecasters to Coast Guard first responders — to ensure a healthy, productive ocean and resilient coastal communities for the Gulf’s 14 million residents and the $234 billion annual economic benefit it provides to the U.S. economy.

The Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA) gives users the opportunity to search and download real-time data, search historical data, compare datasets from different stations, generate and share custom data views, access metadata for SECOORA stations, access to regional and sub-regional models, including coastal circulation, water quality and fisheries habitat models.

Florida has approximately 1,350 miles of ocean coastline and 33 of its counties are located along the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. These counties represent 9 of the 10 Regional Planning Councils in the state of Florida.

The Peril of Flood Portal is continually-updated by staff members of Florida's Regional Planning Councils.  The website features a compilation of projects, resources, and important data relating to coastal resiliency in the state of Florida.

This guide helps coastal communities envision what a changing climate means for the community and to lay the foundation for developing strategies to address emerging challenges. 

The guide uses free online tools and data sets to step users through a risk and vulnerability assessment for their coastal community. It is intended to be used by local officials and government staff, community groups, or other stakeholders, and is flexible enough to facilitate conversations around a broad spectrum of resilience-related issues.

Convenient, free access to socioeconomic and climate data can help communities visualize potential problems and make informed decisions to adapt to long-term climate change.

Coastal communities can use this website to determine how the current and future flooding can affect their stormwater systems. The site walks users through a process of entering information and selecting various inputs to generate a local report. The report can be used to educate community stakeholders on implications of coastal flooding, communicate the potential impacts of current and future flooding, and inform municipal planning efforts. The report can also be used to brainstorm possible solutions and make the case for funding them.

This web tool identifies Resilience Hubs, which are areas of open space where projects may have the greatest potential to benefit both human community resilience and fish and wildlife. Resilience Hubs incorporate multiple indices—including a Community Exposure Index, a Community Asset Index, a Threat Index, and a Fish and Wildlife Index—which can also be explored through CREST.

NASA's Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resource (POWER) project was initiated to distribute NASA satellite-based and research data parameters customized for usage by the renewable energy and agricultural communities. The POWER Project Services Platform features numerous methods to obtain data products including a "Data Access Viewer", Web image services, and a direct access through URL commands.  The web-based application currently supports Chrome, Safari, and Firefox browsers.