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.
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.
As the “eye on Alaska’s coasts and oceans,” Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS) represents a network of critical ocean and coastal observations. Data and information available through the site shed light on the status of Alaska’s marine ecosystem and helps stakeholders make informed decisions about their use of the marine environment.
If you've ever felt inundated by the number of flooding and sea level rise visualization tools available, this tool can help you keep your head above water.
Adapt Alaska provides newcomers to climate adaptation in Alaska a wealth of resources for initiating the process. Climate change impacts threaten both coastal and inland communities across the state. Animal and human populations are under threat fromexposed to flooding, changing shorelines, acidification of ocean waters, melting ice, and more. Adapt Alaska was created to inform decision-makers of all the resources available to them to help combat these problems.
The site features 3 main sections:
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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.
This tool is designed to align with the Adaptation Workbook and adaptation menus published in Forest Adaptation Resources: Climate Change Tools and Approaches for Land Managers. This frequently used resource is also known as the NIACS (Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science) Adaptation Workbook.
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.
Green infrastructure can be discouraged or even prohibited by outdated, poorly worded, or ambiguous codes and ordinances. Cooperation among county and municipal staff in zoning, land use, urban forestry, stormwater, and engineering are key to evaluating barriers to green infrastructure in our communities. This workbook helps communities review, revise, and prioritize their local codes and ordinances to promote and advance green infrastructure implementation.
Users can download the entire workbook or one of its main sections in PDF format:
New York jurisdictions can use this model code to accelerate the savings obtained through their local building energy codes. For jurisdictions that adopt it, NYStretch will provide savings of roughly 11 percent over the 2020 Energy Conservation Construction Code of New York State (2020 ECCCNYS), when that energy code is released by New York State Department of State.
The NYStretch mode code: