USGS releases tools to inform coastal response to sea level rise

The U.S. Geological Survey has released several new products, data sets and an Open-File Report designed to inform coastal response to sea level rise through a public website.

The products come out of the USGS Sea-Level Rise Hazards and Decision-Support project, which seeks to predict the sea-level rise response 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 developed in collaboration with the North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative to ensure that research outcomes meet decision making needs.