NFWF Coastal Resilience Assessment: Charleston Harbor Watershed

Mar 9, 2017 (Last modified Oct 24, 2017)
Created by Jianyu Wu
NFWF Coastal Resilience Assessment: Charleston Harbor Watershed

About

Watersheds in the Charleston Harbor area are part of a national project to map "resilience hubs" and identify restoration projects that will increase both the resilience of human communities and fish and wildlife habitat to the effects of coastal and inland storms.

Join this group to get involved with the Charleston Harbor Watershed (SC) resilience assessment. This site is a place to collect data and share information for this project.

Check out the fact sheet for more details about this project.

We're gathering data and input about the following information to make this assessment relevant and accurate for the Charleston Harbor watershed:
  1. Key fish and wildlife species and other natural features for the Charleston Harbor Watershed area that are vulnerable to coastal threats such as flooding, inundation, and storm surge.
  2. Local GIS data sources for features that spatially represent the key fish and wildlife habitat mentioned above as well as any threats data available for the project footprint.
  3. Locations for restoration or conservation projects that will increase resilience to coastal and inland storms for both human communities and wildlife. Projects could be at the identification, planning, or implementation stage.
Why should you participate?
  • Provide input, information, and data while gaining greater understanding of vulnerability in the watershed.
  • Provide information on needed resilience project(s) in the watershed.
  • Receive an ArcGIS desktop coastal resiliency decision support tool and initial training
How to get involved?
  1. Sign up for a South Atlantic Conservation Planning Atlas account.
  2. After signing up, join the Charleston Harbor Watershed Group.
  3. Attend a half-day workshop (see information below)
Thank you for your participation in the Watershed Stakeholder Workshops.

  • Charleston: May 24 from 1:00 - 4:30 pm at SCDNR Marine Resources Research Institute Auditorium, 217 Fort Johnson Road Charleston, SC 29422-2559. The Marine Resources Research Institute is 7 miles south of Charleston on James Island.
  • Awendaw: May 25 from 9:00 am - 12:30 pm at Sewee Visitor and Environmental Education Center, 5821 Highway 17 North Awendaw, SC 29429. The Sewee Center is located 20 miles north of Charleston on U.S. Highway 17 North.
Please join and Submit Data on this site.

Tags
wildlife, resilience, coastal resilience, nfwf, fish, watershed, south carolina (sc)

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