Coastal Resilience Committee Resource Page

Resiliency Groups

About the Coastal Resilience Committee:

The Coastal Resilience Committe (previously known as Sea Level Rise Committee) is an advisory committee in New Shoreham, Rhode Island comprised of eight members with a wide variety of backgrounds and expertise.

Mission Statement:

The Coastal Resilience Committee is established to gather current scientific data and build on community knowledge to advise the town on priority actions that will improve Block Island’s coastal resiliency. This is done by:

Understanding the potential threats to the island posed by sea level rise and climate change.
Regularly engaging with the community to collect input and conduct outreach.
Evaluating and recommending opportunities for adaptation and mitigation amidst a rapidly changing climate

Meeting Agendas, Members and Minutes can be found HERE

Title	Scale	Images
Rhode Island Department of Envornmental Management	State
URI Sea Grant	State
Rhode Island Infastructure Bank	State
Coastal Resource Management Commission	State
Rhode Island Coastal Resilincy Network	State
Municipal Resilience Program	State
Coastal Institute	State
Southern Rhode Island Conservaiton District	State
Rhode Island Statewide Planning Program	State
URI Coastal Resource Center	State

Resource Database

Climate work spans a wide variety of focuses, disciplines, and scales. This database includes some of the most relevant resources to coastal resiliency on Block Island. Use the following filters to explore a specific topic, see how different disciplines approach climate work, narrow the scale of the resource from universally relevant to specific to Block Island or see what resources are available for a certain audience. If you know of a source you would like to see on this page, use the following section to make a submission!