Engage/Communicate

This mapping tool provides data for glacial lakes in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The data includes likely suitability for fishes, land cover along the shoreline and in the lake’s watershed, and conservation recommendations to supplement existing information for each lake. The planner can be used to inform single-lake management, establish a framework for conservation strategies in each lake, identify patterns in fish habitat due to climate and land use change, and help prioritize limited resources among lakes. 

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.

According to the USDA Forest Service, silviculture is the "art and science of controlling the establishment, growth, composition, health, and quality of forests and woodlands to meet the diverse needs and values of landowners and society such as wildlife habitat, timber, water resources, restoration, and recreation on a sustainable basis. This is accomplished by applying different types of silvicultural treatments such as thinning, harvesting, planting, pruning, prescribed burning, and site preparation."

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.

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:

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 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: