The Nature Conservancy in California and the California State Coastal Conservancy proudly announce the release of the first, statewide, comprehensive assessment of the vulnerability of habitats, imperiled species, and conservation lands to sea level rise.
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Scientists at North Carolina State University, the North Carolina Coastal Reserve and National Research Reserve, the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries, and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, have developed a habitat suitability index model to improve oyster sanctuary site selection and improve restoration efforts along the coast of North Carolina.
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Current global estimates do not capture enough of the finer scale variability required to inform local decisions on siting protection and restoration projects. To close this knowledge gap, TNC and Woods Hole scientists compiled a large georeferenced database of mangrove soil carbon measurements and developed a novel machine-learning based statistical model of the distribution of carbon density using spatially comprehensive data at a 30 m resolution.
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This report uses rigorous hydrodynamic and economic models to value the coastal flood protection services of mangroves globally, and identifies the places where mangroves provide the greatest risk reduction benefits to people and property. Results demonstrate that mangrove conservation and restoration is an important part of the solution for reducing risk.
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This paper shows -for the first time – that the cost effectiveness of nature-based, artificial, and policy solutions for reducing risk from storms and sea level rise can be quantitatively compared to one another across regions as large as the Gulf of Mexico.
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