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The Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS) brings weather and ocean data for fisheries, commercial ships, and emergency weather services together for public safety. The organization works to improve the monitoring of water quality, algal blooms, flooding and erosion. Users can search through a variety of data services and products, including buoy observations, historical data, weather forecasts and satellite information.

The Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS) represents an amalgamation of 65 separate products available for decision makers' use. This toolkit was created to unite the vast amount of individual pre-existing observing systems like ocean buoys, satellites, and tide gauges into one cohesive network, ensuring better communication between the systems. With this network, users can efficiently gather observational and model data that promotes the proper management of the oceans and estuaries in the Pacific Northwestern region.

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 Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) offers data on maritime safety, ecosystems and fisheries, public health, and climate adaptation and seeks to facilitate the gathering, administration, and dispensing of Great Lakes regional data. This data is visible through either the catalog or map view, both of which are good visualization methods depending on users' preferences. The tool is meant for scientists, managers, and industry stakeholders. 

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 Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System (CARICOOS) operates observing assets, gathers and provides observed data, creates experimental forecast models and data products, runs education and outreach programs, and promotes oceanographic research programs.

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.

Projected changes in climate have implications for public planning, utilities, city budgets, and public health, particularly for vulnerable populations such as the young, elderly, and poor. A group of researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln banded together with the City of Lincoln, Nebraska, to help municipalities across the Midwest plan for such changes. The project is intended to help cities determine where to invest their limited dollars to match future needs of their communities.

The project website hosts municipal climate adaptation reports for:

Various areas in Indiana will be impacted by climate change in different ways. This website provides a statewide map that charts county-by-county extreme heat, extreme precipitation, and floodplain land use data. The map provides current trends and 2050 emission scenarios for extreme heat and preciptation events, based on the Indiana Climate Change Impacts Assessment.

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