NFWF Coastal Resilience Assessment: Narragansett Bay and Coastal RI Watersheds

Mar 9, 2017 (Last modified Oct 25, 2017)
Created by Jianyu Wu
NFWF Coastal Resilience Assessment: Narragansett Bay and Coastal RI Watersheds

About

Watersheds in the Narragansett Bay and Coastal Rhode Island 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 Narragansett Bay and Coastal RI Watersheds (RI/MA) resilience assessment. This site is a place to collect data and share information for this project.


We're gathering data and input about the following information to make this assessment relevant and accurate for Narragansett Bay and Coastal Rhode Island watersheds:
  1. Key fish and wildlife species and other natural features for the Narragansett Bay and Coastal Rhode Island 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 Narragansett Bay and Coastal RI Watersheds Group.
  3. Attend a half-day workshop (see information below)

Thank you for your participation in the Watershed Stakeholder Workshops.

  • University of Rhode Island: May 18, 1:00 - 4:30 pm at the Student Memorial Union, 50 Lower College Road, Kingston, RI
  • Fall River, MA: May 19, 9:30 am - 1:30 pm at the Fall River State Heritage Park Visitor’s Center, Davol Street, Fall River, MA
Please join and Submit Data on this site.

Tags
watershed, massachusetts (ma), fish, rhode island (ri), resilience, wildlife, coastal resilience, nfwf

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