Adapting to the Rise: A Guide For Connecticut's Coastal Communities
After working with over 35 municipalities on community resilience building, the Coastal Resilience Team developed “Adapting to the Rise: A Guide for Connecticut’s Coastal Communities”. This guidebook provides town planners, city managers, municipal staff, elected officials, and concerned citizens with 1) a basic understanding of several topics related to adapting to immediate and future flooding and sea level rise, 2) examples from communities that have advanced various adap
Building Resilient Ecosystems in New Haven, Connecticut
Over the last few years the Coastal Resilience Program team has finalizing Salt Marsh Advancement Zone Assessments for every one of the 24 municipals along Connecticut's coastline including for New Haven, Connecticut. This work stands out as the first parcel-scale assessment of future salt marsh locations for the entirety of a state's coastline in the United States. The assessments also provide locations where the built environment will be in daily conflict with tides given
Climate Change Threatens Connecticut's Rail System
Back in 2011, the Coastal Resilience Program completed a detailed vulnerability analysis of Connecticut's rail and interstate system to a 1938 Cat-3 Hurricane simulation with and without downscaled sea level rise projections out to the 2080s. The results of the analysis were presented and entered into record during the Govenor's Two Storm Panel proceedings back in 2011-12. This summer (2015), the CT Mirror picked up on the analysis and highlighted the findings within a two