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Eyes App Goes To The White House, Robert E. Gutsche Jr. Apr 2015

Eyes App Goes To The White House, Robert E. Gutsche Jr.

Sea Level Rise Collection

No abstract provided.


Climate Activist Visits Fiu, Robert E. Gutsche Jr. Apr 2015

Climate Activist Visits Fiu, Robert E. Gutsche Jr.

Sea Level Rise Collection

Announcement of visit by Captain Dan Kipnis to FIU.


Hampton Roads Must Rise To Challenge In Reducing Effects Of Climate Change, Daily Press Apr 2015

Hampton Roads Must Rise To Challenge In Reducing Effects Of Climate Change, Daily Press

News Items

No abstract provided.


Odu Hosts Fema Listening Session On New Flood Protection Standards, Public Affairs & News Bureau, Old Dominion University Mar 2015

Odu Hosts Fema Listening Session On New Flood Protection Standards, Public Affairs & News Bureau, Old Dominion University

News Items

No abstract provided.


Museum Exhibit Hints At Miami: 2100, Alex Blencowe Feb 2015

Museum Exhibit Hints At Miami: 2100, Alex Blencowe

Sea Level Rise Collection

Description of the exhibit "Miami 2100: Envisioning a Resilient Second Century" by FIU Architecture and Arts students that created models of predicted sea level rise and flooding in the Miami, Orlando and Key West areas in February 2015.


Crowdsourcing King Tide Flooding, Susan Jacobson, Juliet Pinto, Kate Macmillin, Tiffany Troxler-Gann Jan 2015

Crowdsourcing King Tide Flooding, Susan Jacobson, Juliet Pinto, Kate Macmillin, Tiffany Troxler-Gann

Sea Level Rise Collection

King Tides are the highest high tides in the year, usually peaking in the Spring and Fall. In South Florida, King Tides contribute to flooding along the coast and in other low-lying areas when the storm water system becomes overwhelmed with sea water. The water comes up through the sewer system, flooding streets and other areas. The tidal flood water can bring brackish water through storm drains inland.


Engaging South Florida On Sea Level Rise: Eyes On The Rise, King Tides And Citizen Science, Juliet Pinto, Susan Jacobson Jan 2015

Engaging South Florida On Sea Level Rise: Eyes On The Rise, King Tides And Citizen Science, Juliet Pinto, Susan Jacobson

Sea Level Rise Collection

No abstract provided.


Legal Primer, Hampton Roads Sea Level Rise Preparedness And Resilience Intergovernmental Pilot Project, Legal Working Goup Jan 2015

Legal Primer, Hampton Roads Sea Level Rise Preparedness And Resilience Intergovernmental Pilot Project, Legal Working Goup

Hampton Roads Intergovernmental Pilot Project: Reports

A legal primer developed by the Legal Working Group of the Hampton Roads Sea Level Rise Preparedness and Resilience Intergovernmental Pilot Project. Includes a memo from Roy A. Hoagland, Chair of the IPP Legal Working Group and Director of the Virginia Coastal Policy Clinic at William & Mary Law School to Jim Redick, Chair of the IPP Steering Committee, dated August 13, 2015.


Life In Hampton Roads Survey Press Release #5" Sea Level Rise Rise And Flooding, Social Science Research Center, Old Dominion University Jan 2015

Life In Hampton Roads Survey Press Release #5" Sea Level Rise Rise And Flooding, Social Science Research Center, Old Dominion University

Life in Hampton Roads Survey Report

This report examines regional and sub-regional measures of environmental risk perceptions from the 2015 Life In Hampton Roads survey (LIHR 2015) conducted by the Old Dominion University Social Science Research Center. Data from prior years is also provided when available to show comparisons in responses over time. Responses were weighted by city population, race, age, gender, and phone usage (cell versus land-line) to be representative of the Hampton Roads region.


Anthropogenic Controls On Overwash Deposition: Evidence And Consequences, Laura Rogers, Laura Moore, Evan Goldstein, Christopher Hein, Jorge Lorenzo Trueba, Andrew Ashton Jan 2015

Anthropogenic Controls On Overwash Deposition: Evidence And Consequences, Laura Rogers, Laura Moore, Evan Goldstein, Christopher Hein, Jorge Lorenzo Trueba, Andrew Ashton

Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Accelerated sea level rise and the potential for an increase in frequency of the most intense hurricanes due to climate change threaten the vitality and habitability of barrier islands by lowering their relative elevation and altering frequency of overwash. High-density development may further increase island vulnerability by restricting delivery of overwash to the subaerial island. We analyzed pre-Hurricane Sandy and post-Hurricane Sandy (2012) lidar surveys of the New Jersey coast to assess human influence on barrier overwash, comparing natural environments to two developed environments (commercial and residential) using shore-perpendicular topographic profiles. The volumes of overwash delivered to residential and commercial …


Testing The Waters: Local Users, Sea Level Rise, And The Productive Usability Of Interactive Geovisualizations, Daniel Richards Jan 2015

Testing The Waters: Local Users, Sea Level Rise, And The Productive Usability Of Interactive Geovisualizations, Daniel Richards

English Faculty Publications

This paper explores the potential for technical communicators to employ usability research with risk-based interactive geovisualization technologies as a method of cultivating "critical rhetorics of risk communication" for local communities. Through integrating theories from usability studies and risk communication, I offer some new directions for thinking about the productive usability of online, participatory technologies that promote citizen engagement in science. I argue that the key tenets of productive usability afford technical communicators the opportunity to build localized knowledge of risk in real, local users, which in turn improves the capacity for a community and its stakeholders to more effectively communicate …


Sea Level, Paleogeography, And Archeology On California's Northern Channel Islands, Leslie Reeder- Myers, Jon Erlandson, Daniel R. Muhs, Torben Rick Jan 2015

Sea Level, Paleogeography, And Archeology On California's Northern Channel Islands, Leslie Reeder- Myers, Jon Erlandson, Daniel R. Muhs, Torben Rick

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Sea-level rise during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene inundated nearshore areas in many parts of the world, producing drastic changes in local ecosystems and obscuring significant portions of the archeological record. Although global forces are at play, the effects of sea-level rise are highly localized due to variability in glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) effects. Interpretations of coastal paleoecology and archeology require reliable estimates of ancient shorelines that account for GIA effects. Here we build on previous models for California's Northern Channel Islands, producing more accurate late Pleistocene and Holocene paleogeographic reconstructions adjusted for regional GIA variability. This region has …


Quantifying Florida Bay Habitat Suitability For Fishes And Invertebrates Under Climate Change Scenarios, Kelly A. Kearney, Mark J. Butler Iv, Robert Glazer, Christopner R. Kelble, Joseph E. Serafy, Erik Stabenau Jan 2015

Quantifying Florida Bay Habitat Suitability For Fishes And Invertebrates Under Climate Change Scenarios, Kelly A. Kearney, Mark J. Butler Iv, Robert Glazer, Christopner R. Kelble, Joseph E. Serafy, Erik Stabenau

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

The Florida Bay ecosystem supports a number of economically important ecosystem services, including several recreational fisheries, which may be affected by changing salinity and temperature due toclimate change. In this paper, we use a combination of physical models and habitat suitability index models to quantify the effects of potential climate change scenarios on a variety of juvenile fish and lobster species in Florida Bay. The climate scenarios include alterations in sea level, evaporation and precipitation rates, coastal runoff, and water temperature. We find that the changes in habitat suitability vary in both magnitude and direction across the scenarios and species, …