Efforts to protect and enhance our nation’s coastal resilience are, by their very nature, place-based. As coastal states and communities pursue strategies to adapt to a changing coastline, federal policy … Read more
Coastal resilience
Expanding Technical Assistance for Coastal Communities
Stitched together, the coastline of the United States, including along the Great Lakes, extends for more than 95,000 miles. Roughly half of our population lives along the coast, making coastal … Read more
Oxford Living Shoreline – Where Innovation Meets Community Science
The Town of Oxford is a vibrant small town on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. This area forms a peninsula sandwiched between the Choptank and Tred Avon River’s of the … Read more
Restoring America’s Everglades
In Florida, everything from wildlife to tourism runs on clean water and in South Florida, that means the Everglades. America’s Everglades once covered some three million acres – a shallow … Read more
One Year After Hurricane Harvey, Are We Ready for Future Storms?
It’s been one year since Hurricane Harvey struck Texas, lashing the coast and dumping record-breaking amounts of rain over Houston and surrounding communities. The resulting floodwaters damaged over 204,000 residences … Read more
Safeguard Reddish Egret Habitat + Crucial Protection for Our Coasts and Rivers
Hurricane season is again upon us, with storms threatening communities, homes, and wildlife habitat in their path. As communities recover in the wake of these storms and floods, we must … Read more
Hurricane Season is Here: Preparing our Coast for the Future
Subtropical Storm Alberto just drenched much of the southeast, killing at least four people. Significant storms before the official start of hurricane season seem to be becoming less and less … Read more
Conquest Beach: One Year Later
If you build a house it will never look as good as it did on the day it is finished. Over time, you will scrape the wall moving in your … Read more
NYC Program Empowers Students to Evaluate Climate RiSC
Hurricanes on Steroids The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season has broken all records in terms of the quantity and intensity of consecutive storms, their destructive power, and the toll on human life, … Read more
Protecting Delaware’s Coast
Millions of dollars have been spent by the state of Delaware restoring beach dune systems and coastal marshes. From recreational areas like boardwalks at Rehoboth and Bethany Beach, to the … Read more
