Monitoring & site risk assessments
Find your community's risk/ vulnerability assessments
Examples of studies and risk/ vulnerability assessments to inform the decision of whether and/or when to protect-in-place, do managed retreat, and/ or relocate
Erosion/ shoreline change risk/ vulnerability assessments
Flooding risk/ vulnerability assessments
Assessing the Impacts of Coastal Flooding on Treaty of Olympia Infrastructure: A report to the Quinault Nation, Hoh Tribe, and Quileute Tribe (May 2019)
Coastal flood impact assessments for Alaska communities (2021)
Climate change and multiple hazard vulnerability assessments
Climate Change Impact Assessment - Port Gamble S'klallam Natural Resources Department (March 2017)
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for the Treaty of Olympia Tribes: A Report to the Quinault Indian Nation, Hoh Tribe, and Quileute Tribe (February 2016)
Jamestown S'klallam Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plan (2013)
Lummi Nation Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Plan: 2016-2026 (2016)
Shinnecock Indian Nation Peconic Estuary Climate Vulnerability Assessment and Action Plan (September 2019)
Statewide Threat Assessment: Identification of Threats from Erosion, Flooding, and Thawing Permafrost in Remote Alaska Communities (November 2019)
Funding sources for monitoring and/or risk assessments
BIA Branch of Tribal Climate Resilience Annual Awards Program (Funds can be used for site risk assessments and for supplemental monitoring outside normal program work)
National Coastal Resilience Fund (Funds have been used for flood risk assessments and erosion and flood monitoring)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Adaptation Partnerships (formerly RISA) Program (Funds have been used for risk assessments)
USEPA Indian Environmental General Assistance Program (Could write monitoring into your work plan and then use funds for monitoring)
Technical assistance
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium - Center for Environmentally Threatened Communities
Army Corps of Engineers (the planning team is having a meeting with them to learn more)
NOAA Sea Grant Programs
Proposal/ scope of work templates
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Prototype Scope for Permafrost Vulnerability Assessment
Data tools
Climate change projections
Tools for particular states or regions
Cal-adapt (climate change projections for California)
Northwest Tribal Climate Tool (Tribal-specific climate change data for Tribes in the Northwest, including northern California and Great Basin)
Scenarios Network for Alaska + Arctic Planning Climate Tools
National-scale tools
Future Climate Dashboard (easy to use)
Coastal climate change (sea level rise, coastal flooding, high-tide flooding, marsh migration)
NOAA Sea Level Rise Viewer (potential coastal flooding and marsh migration due to sea level rise, does not include Alaska)
U.S. Climate Explorer (has high-tide flooding (HTF) projections for lower-48)
U.S. High Tide Flooding Probability Scenarios Through 2100 (based on February 2018 information)
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