Climate Ready Estuaries - COAST in Action: 2012 Projects from Maine and New Hampshire

Authors

S. Merrill
P. Kirshen
D. Yakovleff
S. Lloyd
C. KeeleyFollow
B. Hill

Abstract

In summer 2011 the US EPA’s Climate Ready Estuaries program awarded funds to the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership (CBEP) in Portland, Maine, and the Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership (PREP) in coastal New Hampshire, to further develop and use COAST (COastal Adaptation to Sea level rise Tool) in their sea level rise adaptation planning processes. The New England Environmental Finance Center worked with municipal staff, elected officials, and other stakeholders to select specific locations, vulnerable assets, and adaptation actions to model using COAST. The EFC then collected the appropriate base data layers, ran the COAST simulations, and provided visual, numeric, and presentation-based products in support of the planning processes underway in both locations. These products helped galvanize support for the adaptation planning efforts. Through facilitated meetings they also led to stakeholders identifying specific action steps and begin to determine how to implement them.

Department

Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership

Publication Date

7-2012

Publisher

New England Environmental Finance Center

Document Type

Report

Recommended Citation

Merrill, S., P. Kirshen, D. Yakovleff, S. Lloyd, C. Keeley, and B. Hill. 2012. COAST in Action: 2012 Projects from New Hampshire and Maine. New England Environmental Finance Center Series Report #12-05. Portland, Maine.