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Climate Ready Estuaries Partner Projects

Find projects in coastal U.S. states:

Map of the US, split into EPA regions that have Climate Ready Estuaries projects.

 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee  Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Pacific Islands Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington


Project summary table

More details about these projects may be available from:

EPA Region Partner Project Year
1 Buzzards Bay National Estuary Program Environmental Justice Project on Sea Level Rise Impacts 2012
1 Casco Bay Estuary Partnership Climate Change in the Casco Bay Watershed: Past, Present and Future 2009
1 Casco Bay Estuary Partnership Examining Strategies for Investing in Ecosystem Services in Casco Bay Tidal Wetlands 2015
1 Casco Bay Estuary Partnership Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment 2015
1 Casco Bay Estuary Partnership Maine mollusk shell recycling program 2018
1 Casco Bay Estuary Partnership and Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge Adaptation Analysis via COAST 2011
1 Massachusetts Bay Program Vulnerability Assessment for the Coastal Zone 2008
1 Massachusetts Bay Program Blue Carbon, Green Eelgrass 2015
1 Narragansett Bay Estuary Program Assessment of Climate Change Adaptation Measures for the Lower Pawtuxet River, Rhode Island 2011
1 Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership The Oyster Culvert Analysis Project 2008
1.2 Long Island Sound Study Developing Climate Indicators to Help Inform Adaptation Planning Efforts 2009
1.2 Long Island Sound Study Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plan for Groton, Connecticut 2009
1.2 Long Island Sound Study Adaptation Resource Toolbox 2010
1.2 Long Island Sound Study Ocean color remote sensing of Long Island Sound for Climate Applications 2016
1.2 Long Island Sound Study Completing a Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for Long Island Sound 2017
2 Barnegat Bay Partnership Support of Climate Change Workgroup Activities: Climate Change Technical Workshop 2009
2 Barnegat Bay Partnership Sea Level Rise and Barnegat Bay’s Wetlands: A Look at Potential Impacts 2015
2 Barnegat Bay Partnership Conducting a broad, risk-based vulnerability assessment and integrating climate change considerations into the BBP’s revised CCMP 2016
2 Barnegat Bay Partnership Seagrass Vulnerability to Climate Change in Barnegat Bay 2017
2 New York–New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program Joint CREAT Exercise 2011
2 New York–New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program Climate-ready Water Access: Assessing Opportunities for Climate Change Resilience at Our Public Access Sites 2011
2 New York–New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment 2015
2 Peconic Estuary Program Developing a Climate Ready Critical Lands Protection Strategy 2012
2 Peconic Estuary Program Climate Vulnerability Assessment for the Peconic Estuary and Shinnecock Indian Nation 2014
2 San Juan Bay Estuary Program Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment 2012
2 San Juan Bay Estuary Program Action Planning for Climate Change Risks to Estuary Water Quality and Habitat 2014
2.3 Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Three Case Studies in Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Planning 2008
2.3 Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Habitat Equivalency Analysis and the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model 2009
2.3 Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Using Living Shorelines to Protect Tidal Marsh Habitat as Sea Level Rises 2011
2.3 Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment 2015
3 Delaware Center for the Inland Bays Broad, Risked-Based Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment of the Inland Bays CCMP 2016
3 Maryland Coastal Bays Program Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment 2016
3 Maryland Coastal Bays Program Risk-based adaptation planning 2018
4 Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Program Public Listening Sessions: Sea Level Rise and Population Growth in North Carolina 2008
4 Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Program Pilot Water Utility Climate Change Modeling 2011
4 Charlotte Harbor NEP Vulnerability Assessment for the City of Punta Gorda, Florida 2008
4 Charlotte Harbor NEP Climate Change Indicators for the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program 2009
4 Charlotte Harbor NEP Development of Conceptual Ecological Models for Charlotte Harbor 2010
4 Charlotte Harbor NEP Habitat resiliency to climate change in the CHNEP Study Area 2016
4 Charlotte Harbor NEP Conduct a broad risk-based, climate change vulnerability assessment 2016
4 Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program Vulnerability Assessment for the City of Satellite Beach, Florida 2009
4 Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program Impacts of Sea Level Rise to Wetlands in the Indian River Lagoon 2010
4 Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program Prioritizing TMDLs Using Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise 2012
4 Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program Climate Ready Estuaries Vulnerability Assessment 2017
4 Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program Visioning for Sustainable Coastal Communities and Resilience along the Indian River Lagoon 2017
4 Mobile Bay National Estuary Program Raising Community Awareness of Climate Risks and Adaptation Options 2012
4 Mobile Bay National Estuary Program Assessing Climate Risks in the Lower Three Mile Creek Watershed 2012
4 Mobile Bay National Estuary Program Toulmins Spring Branch Community Adaptation, Three Mile Creek Watershed 2014
4 Sarasota Bay Estuary Program Addressing Sea Level Rise in the Sarasota Bay National Estuary Program Region 2010
4 Sarasota Bay Estuary Program Addressing Sea Level Rise in the Sarasota Bay National Estuary Program Region 2011
4 Sarasota Bay Estuary Program Climate vulnerability assessment: a new lens for articulating risks to stewardship and restoration goals in the Sarasota Bay NEP 2016
4 Tampa Bay Estuary Program The Gulf Coast Community Handbook 2009
4 Tampa Bay Estuary Program The Gulf Coast Community Handbook 2011
4 Tampa Bay Estuary Program Tampa Bay Blue Carbon Climate Ready Estuaries assessment and future scenarios 2015
4 Tampa Bay Estuary Program Vulnerability Assessment of Tampa Bay CCMP Goals to Climate Change 2015
6 Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program Vulnerability Assessment 2017
6 Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program Texas Coastal Bend Regional Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment 2014
9 Morro Bay National Estuary Program Climate Change Risk to Drinking Water Supplies 2011
9 Morro Bay National Estuary Program Climate Vulnerability Assessment and Conservation Plan 2014
9 Morro Bay National Estuary Program Chorro Creek Ecological Reserve Floodplain Restoration 2017
9 San Francisco Estuary Partnership Expert Elicitation and Vulnerability Assessment 2008
9 San Francisco Estuary Partnership Climate Change Assessment for Comprehensive Conservationand  Management Plan Revision 2014
9 San Francisco Estuary Partnership San Francisco Estuary Regional Transition Zone Mapping and Community Adaptation Strategy Pilot Project 2016
9 San Francisco Estuary Partnership Nature-based solution for habitat and shoreline resiliency 2018
9 Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission Vulnerability of the Ballona Wetlands and Watershed 2010
9 Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission Risk-based, climate change vulnerability assessments 2015
10 Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership Incorporating Climate Change into the Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan 2010
10 Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership Climate Change Impacts: Vulnerability of Lower Columbia River Wetland Ecosystems to Sea Level, Precipitation, Temperature, and CO2 Changes 2014
10 Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership Climate Change Vulnerability of Streams to Temperature Increases 2015
10 Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment 2015
10 Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership Identifying methods of enhancing and protecting refuges 2017
10 Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership Assessing the resiliency of Lower Columbia River wetlands 2018
10 Puget Sound Partnership Adaptation Guidance for Habitat Restoration; Development of Climate Change Indicators 2010
10 Tillamook Estuaries Partnership Climate Change Impacts Assessment for Tillamook Estuaries Partnership 2011
10 Tillamook Estuaries Partnership Climate change vulnerability assessment 2015


 

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