Project

Preparing Communities for Sea Level Rise

Building community capacity to prepare for sea level rise.

This project supports the public's ability to interpret the impacts of sea level rise by providing access to sea level rise data and visualization tools, and by encouraging and facilitating public dialogue.

Project Goals:

  • Build public understanding about the direct and indirect impacts sea level rise, as well as more frequent and intense coastal storms and precipitation events.
  • Amplify the importance of data when making decisions clouded by uncertainty.
  • Increase public access to sea level rise data visualization tools.
  • Provide opportunity for coastal communities to engage in dialogue about the local impacts of sea level rise projections.

Visualize how sea level rise will impact our coasts

Community Engagement

We've engaged, and continue to support, thousands of Maine residents through various events and programs in communities all along Maine's coast.

A man and a woman use a bright interactive touch screen in a dark room.
Community members sit in chairs in a large room to listen to a presentation.

Get involved

To schedule a "Preparing Coastal Communities for Sea Level Rise" event for your community, please contact Gayle Bowness.


Gayle Bowness
Gayle Bowness Municipal Climate Action Program Manager (207) 228-1647 [email protected]

Project Partner

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This project was a grantee of NOAA’s Environmental Literacy Program. This program strives to support communities in becoming resilient to current and future environmental hazards. It envisions communities with the capability to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from significant multi-hazard threats with minimum damage to social well-being, the economy, and the environment.

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