Coastal
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Last fall Seeker.com posted an article describing the vegetation changes that are being seen in the Florida Everglades due to rising sea levels. The article notes that “Salt-loving mangroves in the Everglades have marched inland in the past decade, while freshwater plants — such as saw grass, spike rush and tropical hardwood trees — lost…
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I’ve been attending the Southeast Coastal Community of Practice meeting this week at Tybee Island GA. Yesterday we had the chance to visit the new installation of a “living shoreline” at the Ben Burton 4-H camp nearby. This allows a more natural form of protection to prevent coastal erosion from rising sea levels than a…
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NASA has a new web site dedicated to providing resources on sea level for across the US. The site is available at https://sealevel.nasa.gov/. You can also read more about it at TechCrunch at https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/04/nasas-new-sea-level-site-puts-climate-change-papers-data-and-tools-online/. The site is focused on space-based observations (hence why it is coming from NASA instead of NOAA) but has plenty of land-based indicators…
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Nearly 2/3 of the land that NASA manages is within 16 feet of mean sea level, according to a news article published in the New York Times today. Because of this, and knowing the upward creeping sea levels around the world due to warmer waters and melting ice caps, they have been working for ten…
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A recent article in Nature Climate Change by UGA scientists Mathew Hauer and Deepak Mishra and former UGA scientist Jason Evans highlights the severe impacts that rising sea level is expected to have on coastal populations in the US (the abstract is here). The scientists show that based on current projections of sea level rise…
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The Florida Climate Institute (FCI) announced this week that they are proud to be a partner in the new Ahead of the Tide 10-part video series highlighting the effects of sea level rise and climate change through the stories and voices of local Floridians. Each short video (5 to 7 minutes) showcases various aspects concerning sea…
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The Orlando Sentinel published a sobering article today on the collapse of ecosystems along Florida’s coastline. The story details three separate regions in the state and the crippling impacts caused by chronic pollution, feeble drainage, recent drought and the impacts of El Niño downpours this winter on the health of the estuaries. Impacts also include…