Sea Grant Climate Network

A Committee of the Assembly of Sea Grant Extension Program Leaders

June 2009 Blog Posts (3)

Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on the California Coast

The Pacific Institute and the State of California just put out a report, both full report and executive summary, on the impacts of sea-level rise on the California coastline. They used a projected sea-level increase of 1 - 1.4 m by 2100 and evaluated the impacts to their environment, economy, and infrastructure.

Links to the report are posted under Climate Change at the Adaptation sub-tab.

This is a very… Continue

Added by Christopher L Conger on June 12, 2009 at 7:52pm — 1 Comment

NC/SC Sea Grant blog

As many of you know already, I've started a blog for the coastal climate extension program collaboration between SC Sea Grant, NC Sea Grant, and CISA (the NOAA RISA at the University of South Carolina). It was inactive for a while, but now it's up and running again at blogs.ncseagrant.org/coastalclimate. This week's post is a plea for help on thinking up clever strategies for climate extension. Please come check it out, and leave some… Continue

Added by Jessica Whitehead on June 12, 2009 at 6:32pm — No Comments

Story from Bob Bacon & Thoughts from Spencer Rogers

Hi everyone,

Here is a story from the NY Times Bob Bacon shared with the list-serve and comments from Spencer Rogers - I am posting those with Spencer's permission. - Joshua

As background, the area is some of the most susceptible land for sea level rise impacts in the US. Relative sea level rise has been on the order of 1.5' per… Continue

Added by Joshua Brown on June 12, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments