Briefing Series: Climate Adaptation Data Week

During EESI’s Climate Data Adaptation Week, we highlighted a few of the innovative ways climate data is being used to build climate resilience along the nation’s coasts. Decision-makers at all levels are working to integrate new climate data into existing systems, obtain localized data to inform community-level decisions, integrate social science data into resiliency planning, and more. It is clear that access to useable climate data will continue to be critical for the development of coastal resilience to climate impacts.

Localizing Sea Level Rise Projections for Decision-Makers
	A 2014 survey of coastal managers suggested they were missing information needed to plan for and adapt to rising sea levels. The Washington Coastal Resilience Project addresses this problem by generating down-scaled probabilistic sea level rise predictions.
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Assessing National Park Asset Flood Risk: Retreat, Adapt, Fortify?
	The Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines has partnered with the National Parks Service to develop vulnerability assessments for infrastructure in coastal parks. Researchers developed a standardized protocol to assess the vulnerability of individual park assets and compare the vulnerability of assets within and between parks.
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Cultural Heritage and Climate Change
	A new article, “Expanding Use of Archaeology in Climate Change Response by Changing its Social Environment," addresses the use of archaeological data in climate change responses. Archaeology is a way to understand the intersections between the natural and social environments across time and space and can inform the global climate change response in a variety of ways.
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Bridging the Gap Between Science and Decision-Making
	The Climate Impacts Group (CIG) at the University of Washington builds climate resilience by advancing awareness of climate risks and enabling science-based action to manage those risks. The CIG worked with a range of partners on the Washington Coastal Resilience Project to increase Washington state’s capacity to respond to climate hazards.
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Weather and Social Data to Inform Participatory Planning Initiatives
	The New York Sea Grant uses a community-driven needs assessment survey approach to bring weather and social science data to decision-makers in New York’s Great Lakes region. A tool was developed to assess specific weather hazards in the Great Lakes region, including coastal flooding, flash flooding from precipitation and ice jams, ice storms, lake effect weather hazards, and wind storms.
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