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
Westport Rover Watershed Alliance	Comprable
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)	National
Climate Central	National
NorthEast Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems	National
Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project: Coastal, Remote, and Island Community Technical Assistance \| State, Local, and Tribal Governments \| NREL	National
Coastal Innundation Community of Practice	National
NOAA	National
Northeast Regional Ocean Council	National
SNEP	State
Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council	State
Narragansett Bay Research Reserve	State
Marine Affairs Institute	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
Climate Resilience and Adaptation Funding Toolbox	EPA		Solutions	National	Funding
CRMC Island Coastal Resources Management Council: Over 30 Years of Accomplishment in Coastal Management	Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC)		Policy/Government	State	Guides
RIDEM Educational Materials	RIDEM		Outreach & Community Organizing	State	Guides
Examples of Porjects completed by TNC addressing climate change	The Nature Conservancy		Solutions	State	Meetings and Notes	03/05/2022
Program Assessment and Strategy for Enhancement	Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC)		Policy/Government	State	Reports & Research
Resilience Job Descriptions	URI; Sea Grant		Solutions	State	Meetings and Notes
OSCAR Grant	Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC), RIDEM, RIIB		Solutions	State	Funding
Municipal Resilience Program 2024 Action Grant Awards Project Summaries	Rhode Island Infastructure Bank		Economic	State	Funding	23/09/2024
The Block Island Split: Inundation from 7 feet of Sea Level Rise	URI; Sea Grant	Climate Change (including Sea Level Rise)	Science of Climate Change	Block Island	Map
Looming Deadlines for Coastal Resilience	Union of Concerned Scientists	Climate Change (including Sea Level Rise)	Outreach & Community Organizing	National	Reports & Research
U.S. Sea Level Change	Global Change	Climate Change (including Sea Level Rise)	Science of Climate Change	National	Reports & Research
APPLICATION GUIDE for the 2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)	Climate Change (including Sea Level Rise)	Science of Climate Change	National	Reports & Research