Webinar Series: Our Coast Our Future

  • by BPC Staff
  • on August 25, 2014
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Bay Area Adaptation Stakeholders:

It’s NOT too late to sign up for one of the Our Coast Our Future webinars —either this Wednesday 8/27 10-11 am or next week 9/3 10-11 am (CONTENT EXACTLY THE SAME).

Our Coast Our Future will present their brand new SF Bay planning resources for sea level rise and storm events. For each webinar (content EXACTLY the same) OCOF will provide background on the model, conduct a live demo of the online flood map, and answer your questions.

 

SIGN UP TODAY VIA EMAIL TO bruce@bayareajpc.net

 

See below for more info on the exciting new resources from OCOF.

 

Bruce Riordan

Bay Area Climate & Energy Resilience Project (BACERP)

A Project of the Joint Policy Committee

 

 

OCOF Background Info

Our Coast, Our Future is pleased to announce the addition of San Francisco Bay to our online planning resources.Our Coast, Our Future provides Bay Area coastal managers and planners with a locally relevant, online map and associated data and tools to help understand, visualize, and anticipate vulnerabilities to sea level rise and storms over the next century and beyond. Questions related to restoration, climate adaptation, natural resource management, municipal, and infrastructure maintenance plans can all be addressed using the localized projections easily accessed through our website.

The addition of San Francisco Bay is timely, as NOAA just named San Francisco one of the Nation’s top 10 cities experiencing increased nuisance flooding caused by sea level rise. With this addition, a powerful suite of planning resources now exists for the 9-county Bay Area including:

 

  • An interactive, online flood map tailored to priority planning needs throughout the Bay Area;
  • A seamless Digital Elevation Model (DEM) at two meter horizontal resolution;
  • A combination of 40 different sea level rise and storm projections, using the USGS Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS), that incorporates present and future tides and storms (e.g., storm surge and waves), as well as river discharge, vertical land motion, wind waves, and existing levees for San Francisco Bay; and
  • A “King Tide Scenario” for San Francisco Bay, or visualization of annual high tides that occur when the gravitational pull of the sun and the moon is in alignment. Photos taken as part of the California King Tides Project are available through the map, depicting local areas experiencing flooding from the highest high tides of today, which will be the average water levels of the future.

Many local agencies are already utilizing the Our Coast, Our Future data and tools. Marin County is partnering with the project to conduct the vulnerability assessment portion of their Local Coastal Plan update. The San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is using the data to begin examining potential economic impacts of road mitigation options in a portion of China Camp State Park. Santa Clara County is incorporating the data into their own county-wide adaptation planning tool, Silicon Valley 2.0.

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