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!

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Title	Source	Resiliency Topic	Disciplanary Approach	Scale	Format	Date
Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States	Town of New Shoreham	Climate Change (including Sea Level Rise)	Science of Climate Change	National	Reports & Research
Water Level Monitoring in the Northeast	National Integrated Ocean Observing System (NERACOOS)	Climate Change (including Sea Level Rise)	Science of Climate Change	National	Meetings and Notes
Urban Ocean Observatory at Davidson Laboratory	Stevens Institure of Technology	Climate Change (including Sea Level Rise)	Science of Climate Change	State	Reports & Research
Surging Seas Risk Finder	Climate Central	Climate Change (including Sea Level Rise)	Science of Climate Change	State	Reports & Research
STORMTOOLs	URI; Sea Grant	Climate Change (including Sea Level Rise)	Science of Climate Change	State	Reports & Research
Exploring the Use of Living Shorelines for Stabilization and Nutrient Mitigation in New England	Schoell et al.	Coastal Erosion	Solutions		Reports & Research
Bluff Erosion presentation	Eastern, Bryan Oakley	Coastal Erosion	Science of Climate Change	Block Island	Meetings and Notes	01/01/2022
Shoreline Change Maps	Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC)	Coastal Erosion	Science of Climate Change	Block Island	Reports & Research
Materials on Coir Log Project in NT	Nantucket	Coastal Erosion	Solutions	Comprable	Reports & Research
Puget Sound feeder bluff mapping	Department of Ecology, State of Washington	Coastal Erosion	Science of Climate Change	Comprable	Reports & Research
Engineered Coastal Berms	Montclair University, NJ	Coastal Erosion	Solutions	Comprable	Reports & Research	23/04/2026
Natural and Structural Measures for Shoreline Stabalization	SAGE, Resilient Shorelines Thriving Communities	Coastal Erosion	Solutions	Comprable	Guides