2023 NEOSEC Ocean Literacy Summit: Connecting Climate, Communities, and Coasts

Coastal resiliency can be weakened when conflicting strategies to shoreline management are implemented by neighboring communities. Since 2019 four adjacent towns have been working together to maximize the resiliency of Eastern Cape Cod Bay by pursuing a regional shoreline management approach focused on synergistic techniques. As a result, multiple resources have been developed to support local coastal managers, including an open data hub integrating fine-scale local data related to shoreline stabilization, sediment transport, low-lying roads and flooding hazards, salt marsh migration, beach nourishment activities and dredging.The Data Hub offers policy makers, educators, students, residents, and businesses an opportunity to engage in a collaborative effort to better understand and manage our shared shoreline. One dataset featured within the Data Hub comes from the Storm Tide Pathways project, a collaborative effort between researchers at the Center for Coastal Studies and the National Weather Service to use visualization technology to highlight areas prone to flooding from storms and sea-level rise. This presentation by CCS and the NWS will demonstrate the variety of uses of the Data Hub, highlight the Storm Tide Pathways project and illustrate how that project has been brought to classrooms.