Thursday, June 23, 2022 NOAA’s Sea Grant and Disaster Preparedness Programs help address disaster impacts and recovery with three new projects NOAA’s Sea Grant and Disaster Preparedness Programs help address disaster impacts and recovery with three new projects Thursday, June 23, 2022 0 205 NOAA’s Sea Grant and Disaster Preparedness Programs help address disaster impacts and recovery with three new projects Hurricanes. Flood events. Oil spills. When disaster strikes, communities come together to respond. NOAA Sea Grant and NOAA’s Disaster Preparedness Program are partnering to help communities respond to and recover from these occurrences through three projects that strengthen local preparedness measures. Read more
Wednesday, June 22, 2022 Sea Grant-supported application guide for the 2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report now available Sea Grant-supported application guide for the 2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report now available Wednesday, June 22, 2022 0 33 Sea Grant-supported application guide for the 2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report now available Guide will help coastal communities plan for significant sea level rise Community planners and decision makers now have an application guide to help them plan for the significant sea level rise the United States is expected to see in the next 30 years. The guide is a response to the 2022 Interagency Sea Level Rise report, which projected about a foot of higher waters, on average, along U.S. coastlines by 2050. Read more
Thursday, May 19, 2022 Sea Grant, DOE, NOAA Fisheries fund six projects for the coexistence of offshore energy with Northeast fishing and coastal communities Sea Grant, DOE, NOAA Fisheries fund six projects for the coexistence of offshore energy with Northeast fishing and coastal communities Thursday, May 19, 2022 0 377 Sea Grant, DOE, NOAA Fisheries fund six projects for the coexistence of offshore energy with Northeast fishing and coastal communities The Northeast Sea Grant Consortium—in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office and Water Power Technologies Office, and NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center—today announced six projects to advance social science and technology research on offshore renewable energy in the Northeast United States. This funding opportunity, which awarded over $1.1 million in federal funds, seeks to catalyze research for the coexistence of marine energy—including wind, current, tidal, and wave energies—with Northeast fishing and coastal communities. Read more
Thursday, March 31, 2022 Increasing local resilience to climate effects with Renee Collini Increasing local resilience to climate effects with Renee Collini Thursday, March 31, 2022 0 1439 Increasing local resilience to climate effects with Renee Collini In honor of Women’s History Month, get to know one of the many Women of Sea Grant, Renee Collini. Renee is a Coastal Climate Resilience Specialist with Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, Florida Sea Grant and Mississippi State University. Read more
Wednesday, February 9, 2022 Connecticut Sea Grant partners with Rhode Island Sea Grant Legal Program to help local leaders navigate climate change questions Connecticut Sea Grant partners with Rhode Island Sea Grant Legal Program to help local leaders navigate climate change questions Wednesday, February 9, 2022 0 1220 Connecticut Sea Grant partners with Rhode Island Sea Grant Legal Program to help local leaders navigate climate change questions Questions poured in by the dozen after the morning session of the 2015 Adapt CT legal workshop—six pages worth, in fact. The workshop was part of a series on climate adaptation hosted by Connecticut Sea Grant and the UConn Center for Land Use Education and Research, known as CLEAR, through their joint organization Adapt CT. Legal issues had starkly emerged as another area being reshaped by the broad sweep of the changing climate, as effects are felt across fisheries, agriculture, health, infrastructure, wildlife and economies. Read more