Washington

Climate Trainings Started Here Impact other Coastal States

The Takeaway: Washington workshop gives planners local data and provides examples of successful adaptation strategies.

Coastal Hazards Resilience Network

The Takeaway: Partners join forces to focus on multi-hazard planning, preparedness, response, and recovery.

Community Leadership Paves the Way to Promising Erosion Treatment

The Takeaway: A project that mimics aspects of cobble sand beaches virtually stopped the erosion of shoreline uplands in pilot studies aided by NOAA and Washington State’s coastal zone management program.

First-Ever National Marsh Assessment Tool

The Takeaway: Research reserves determine methodology for calculating sea level rise impact on the marsh and test it in 16 locations. Methodology standardizes the effort and creates a national approach.

Identifying Habitat Loss, Prioritizing Restoration

The Takeaway: Local partners are working together to restore and preserve natural habitats.

Invasive Cordgrass Eradicated in Padilla Bay

The Takeaway: Natural resource managers benefit from Padilla Bay’s experience in removing and controlling invasive species.

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 Boosts Coastal Hardiness

The Takeaway: The agency and its partners help coastal communities lessen hazard dangers, curb carbon emissions, and protect the coast’s environmental and economic assets.

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.

NOAA’s “Green” Expertise Meets New Infrastructure Era

The Takeaway: Some U.S. infrastructure funding that is headed NOAA’s way will maximize the benefits of nature to lessen climate change damage.

Native Americans Play Critical Roles in Many NOAA Projects

The Takeaway: We take a look at the great things that can happen when NOAA and Indigenous communities work together on coastal issues.

Research Reserve Plays Key Role in Disaster Prevention and Response

The Takeaway: The Padilla Bay Research Reserve’s expertise and data inform a plan to protect natural resources from oil-spill disasters.

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.

Volunteer Storm Team Elevates Water Quality Issues

The Takeaway: This effort helps coastal officials make decisions about shellfish harvesting.

Washington Coastal Resilience Project Ups Hazard Readiness

The Takeaway: New sea level rise projections and guidance are informing community policies, plans, development, and funding projects, with help from NOAA programs and grants.