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Coastal Subsurface Water Table and Saltwater Intrusion Monitoring ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/coastal-subsurface-water-table-and-saltwater-intrusion-monitoring-systems/
Collected data will be used to quantify the impacts of sea level rise on near-shore subsurfaces, inform potential early warning systems for groundwate ...
Hardening Shorelines to Reduce Saltwater Intrusion and Coastal Erosion ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/hardening-shorelines-may-lead-to-inland-flooding/
Credit: Jenny Dugan, University of California, Santa Barbara. Sea level rise is causing saltwater to move inland, mixing with the fresh groundwater ...
Online Tool Visualizes Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Coastal Fishponds ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/online-tool-visualizes-impacts-of-sea-level-rise-on-unique-coastal-pools-and-fishponds-of-hawaii/
The models and online story map tool are products of the NCCOS Ecological Effects of Sea Level Rise project Sea-Level Rise Modeling as a Catalyst for ...
The Effects of Sea Level Rise Program (ESLR) - NCCOS Coastal Science ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/science-areas/climate-change/ecological-effects-sea-level-rise-program/
The Effects of Sea Level Rise Program provides a suite of science products and tools useful to coastal managers that are capable of evaluating coastal ...
Pavement Resilience to Sea Level Rise and Potential Mitigation Options ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/coastal-communities-pavement-resilience-to-sea-level-rise-using-natural-and-nature-based-features/
This work combines hydrodynamic, groundwater, and pavement models, along with an adaptation impact assessment, to understand overtopping and pavement ...
Coastal Resilience Through Actionable Science: Evaluation of Adaptation ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/coastal-resilience-through-actionable-science-evaluation-of-adaptation-strategies-to-mitigate-surface-subsurface-flooding-in-coastal-communities/
We are using a coupled groundwater–surface water modeling system to evaluate the site-specific performance of proposed shoreline adaptation actions ...
Sea-Level Rise Modeling as a Catalyst for Effective Coastal Management ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/sea-level-rise-modeling-coastal-management-west-hawaii/
Why We Care The west coast of Hawaii supports groundwater-fed anchialine pools (landlocked bodies of water with a subterranean connection to the ...
Model Identifies Septic System Discharge 'Hotspots' in Southeast ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/model-identifies-septic-system-discharge-hotspots-in-southeast-florida/
Groundwater in southeast Florida’s coastal zone is never far from the land’s surface, posing a risk to the proper function of the more than 112,000 ...
Exploring Ecosystem and Community Vulnerability to Surface and ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/exploring-ecosystem-and-community-vulnerability-to-surface-and-subsurface-flooding-in-california/
The team will consider coastal water movement (hydrodynamics), groundwater flow, and processes that change wetland elevation (accretion) to compare ...
Model Predicts Resilience of Roads After Flood Events
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/model-predicts-resilience-of-roads-after-flood-events/
In response, NCCOS-funded researchers developed a model that predicts how saturated pavements become and how long they stay saturated during flood ...
Studying the Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Hawaii Habitats
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/nccos-partners-local-communities-study-impacts-rising-seas-hawaii-habitats/
An NCCOS-funded Ecological Effects of Sea level Rise (EESLR) project led by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) on the Big Island of Hawaii is working to ...
New Tools Address Threats to Anchialine Pools in Hawaii
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/new-tools-address-threats-to-anchialine-pools-in-hawai%CA%BBi/
The goal of this study was to develop methods to assess potential impacts to anchialine pools from future coastal flooding. Flood predictions ...
Surface Transportation, Sea Level Rise, and Coastal Storms: A ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/surface-transportation-sea-level-rise-and-coastal-storms-a-sustainable-path-to-increased-resilience/
The main study site is Alabama State Route 180, a coastal roadway impacted by severe coastal storms, high groundwater tables, and future sea level ...
NOAA Data Support Groundwater Protection in Marshall Islands
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/noaa-data-support-groundwater-protection-marshall-islands/
Additionally, NCCOS will be using these data to produce map products in support of a larger three-year cooperative effort with the U.S. Geological ...
Predicting Impacts of Sea Level Rise in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/predicting-impacts-sea-level-rise-gulf-mexico/
We are assessing the impacts of sea level rise and coastal storms on marshes and oyster habitats in the northern Gulf of Mexico through the ...
Coastal Ecological Assessments and Indicator Development
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/coastal-ecological-assessments-indicator-development/
We work in partnership with other federal agencies and coastal states to conduct assessments of ecological condition and potential stressor impacts ...
Integration of Social Science with Probabilistic Sea Level Rise ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/integration-of-social-science-with-probabilistic-sea-level-rise-projections-in-puget-sound/
Washington Sea Grant assessed sea level rise exposure for coastal areas of Puget Sound by developing a parcel-level sea level rise vulnerability ...
Dead Zone Predictions for Gulf of Mexico and Chesapeake Bay
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/noaa-partners-issue-dead-zone-predictions-gulf-mexico-chesapeake-bay/
Scientists expect an average hypoxic or "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico this year, and a slightly above-average hypoxic zone in the Chesapeake Bay.
Caitlin Young, PhD - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
coastalscience.noaa.gov/staff/caitlin-young-phd/
Young is a geochemist with research experience working on groundwater-surface water interactions in coastal systems. She completed a postdoctoral ...
Ecosystem Approach to Everglades Water Flow Needed to Minimize ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/ecosystem-approach-to-everglades-water-flow-important-to-minimize-degradation-of-florida-bay/
A new study partially funded by the NCCOS Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (ECOHAB) Program describes the various stressors that have ...