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
Pictorial Manual for the Culture and Grow-out of Soft-Shell Clams: A Practical Guide to Farming Clams in Maine�s Intertidal Zone	Umainem Machias	Fisheries/Shellfisheries	Solutions	National	Guides	01/01/2011
NOAA�S ASSERTION OF JURISDICTION OVER AQUACULTURE FACES CONTINUING CHALLENGES	Sea Grant Law & Policy Journal	Fisheries/Shellfisheries	Policy/Government	State	Reports & Research
EXPLORING OPTIONS TO AUTHORIZE OFFSHORE AQUACULTURE: FACILITATING DISCUSSIONS AMONG REGULATORS AND INDUSTRY MEMBERS TO FIND COMMON GROUND	Sea Grant Law & Policy Journal	Fisheries/Shellfisheries	Policy/Government	State	Reports & Research
DOES PRIVATE AQUACULTURE BENEFIT THE PUBLIC	Sea Grant Law & Policy Journal	Fisheries/Shellfisheries	Policy/Government	State	Reports & Research
Sea Level Rise Adaptation Study Field Review	Town of New Shoreham	Flooding & Natural Disaster		Block Island	Reports & Research
BI Hazard Mitigation Plan	Town of New Shoreham	Flooding & Natural Disaster	Policy/Government	Block Island	Reports & Research	01/01/2016
New shoreham Comprehensive Plan	Town of New Shoreham	Flooding & Natural Disaster	Policy/Government	Block Island	Reports & Research	01/01/2016
Town Landfill EPA FRS Superfund Facility Detail Report	EPA	Flooding & Natural Disaster	Policy/Government	Block Island	Reports & Research
Old Harbor FIRM map	FEMA	Flooding & Natural Disaster	Policy/Government	Block Island	Reports & Research
Town of Westerly 2023 Hazard Mitigation & Flood Management Plan	Town of Westerly	Flooding & Natural Disaster	Policy/Government	Comprable	Reports & Research	01/01/2023
Connecticut Beaches and Dunes: A Hazard Guide for Coastal Property Owners	UCONN	Flooding & Natural Disaster	Solutions	Comprable	Guides
Compounding Disasters in Gulf Coast Communities	National Academies	Flooding & Natural Disaster	Science of Climate Change	National	Reports & Research	01/01/2024