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Probabilistic predictions ensure that consideration of uncertainty is robust and is straightforward to integrate in decision making. This information will directly address decision-support needs elicited in a collaborative Structured Decision Making (SDM) process involving regional resource managers and researchers through the North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (NALCC). The coastal response information can be used to inform corresponding habitat models, as well as to map out alternative management strategies to optimize conservation efforts and allocate regional resources in the future. As such, our study area encompasses the entire NALCC region which extends from Maine to Virginia." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "The effects of sea-level rise (SLR) and changes in coastal storm intensities are expected to have a broad range of impacts on natural and built environments. These effects include changes in habitat area and/or quality along sandy and/or wetland shorelines, and increased vulnerability of human infrastructure." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "The Sea-Level Rise Hazards and Decision-Support project is developing decision-support models and tools through collaboration with researchers, resource managers and decision makers from federal and state agencies and non-governmental organizations." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "As part of the USGS Sea-Level Rise Hazards and Decision-Support project, this assessment seeks to predict the response to sea-level rise across the coastal landscape under a range of future scenarios by evaluating the likelihood of inundation as well as dynamic coastal change. The research is being conducted in conjunction with resource managers and decision makers from federal and state agencies, and non-governmental organizations and utilizes a structured decision-making approach to ensure research outcomes meet decision making needs." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "These GIS layers provide a forecast of the adjusted land elevation (AE) with respect to predicted sea-level rise for the Northeastern U.S. for the 2020s, 2030s, 2050s and 2080s" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "This project seeks to provide a geospatially explicit description of coastal landscape change and land loss in response to SLR by evaluating the likelihood of inundation as well as dynamic coastal change in different settings." } ], "funder": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/whcmsc" }, "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Coastal Ecosystems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Coastal Change" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Science Technology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Geomorphology and Deep-Sea Processes" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Modeling" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Coastal Wetlands" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Methods and Analyses" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Coasts" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Hazards" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Geophysical Mapping" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Ocean" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Water" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Storm Impacts" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Information Systems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Coastal Ecosystem Science" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Coastal Margins" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Coastal Restoration" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Analysis and Processing" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "coastal change" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Forecasts and Models" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Ocean Ecosystems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Coastal Vulnerability" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "coastal landscape" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Sea-Level Rise" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Sea-Level Rise/Climate Change" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Geomorphology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Natural Hazards" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Methods and Analysis" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Coastal Evolution" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "sea level rise" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Coastal Erosion" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Ocean/Marine Ecosystem Science" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Climate Change Impacts" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Energy" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Barrier Islands" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Environmental Health" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Coastal Change Forecasts" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "coastal storms" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Coastal Processes" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Coastal Vulnerability Assessments" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Geology" } ]
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