Alaska

Alaska’s Digital Coast Fellow Boosts Community Storm Resilience

The Takeaway: Community storm histories, an online tool, and flood-risk maps prompt a $1 million-plus resilience grant to aid 44 additional Alaska Native communities on the hazard frontlines.

Headwaters Important for Salmon Health

The Takeaway: A reserve research documents the importance of headwater streams; conservation interests take note.

Kachemak Bay Reserve Alerts Thousands to Poisoned Shellfish Dangers

The Takeaway: Communicating harmful conditions helps keep shellfish consumers safe.

NOAA Aids Largest-Ever West Coast Oyster Data Map

The Takeaway: The findings could spark restoration efforts that are much more strategic and effective, thanks to project leaders and partners that include California’s Elkhorn Slough Research Reserve.

NOAA Blue Carbon Enterprises Lessen Climate Change Damage

The Takeaway: Coastal wetlands research, restoration, tools, data, workshops, and partners—NOAA brings every blue carbon asset to the fight against climate-change-related hazards and harm.

NOAA Helps Alaskans Plan for Imminent Threats and Future Resilience

The Takeaway: A project to collect critical water-level information in remote communities is backed by NOAA’s geospatial services contract, technical assistance, and oceanographic data program.

NOAA Provides Assistance to Coastal Communities

The Takeaway: Some U.S. coastal communities have plentiful data for creating robust resilience plans. Others are struggling to catch up. NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management is focused on providing equal access to the data, tools, and expertise they deserve.

NOAA Strengthens Resilience Before, During, and After Disasters

The Takeaway: NOAA initiatives and state partnership programs are making a difference throughout the nation’s coastal zone.

Stream Flow Findings Benefit Alaska Salmon Stocks

The Takeaway: A Hollings Scholar’s project at the Kachemak Bay Research Reserve will help resource managers better manage Chinook salmon.

Study Provides Baseline Data and Triages Adaptation Needs

The Takeaway: Precision models help Alaska assess vulnerability amid glacial melt and coastal uplift.

Three Reserves Beat Back Green Crab Threat

The Takeaway: Early detection and action (more than 192 traps at 83-plus sites) stops this predator from wrecking the shellfish industry.

Training Inspires Homer to Advance Green Infrastructure

The Takeaway: After trainings, officials use course materials in clean-water efforts and seek to remove green infrastructure barriers.