Active Projects
See current PLACE: SLR projects.
Community’s RISE
Community’s RISE (Resilience In SLR Education), uses a holistic strategy to increase communities’ awareness of sea-level rise impacts along the Gulf.
Status: Active
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Resilient East Biloxi
The goal of this project is to collaborate with community leaders to address chronic flood risk and resilience issues in the redevelopment plans for southeast Biloxi, Mississippi.
Status: Active
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Nature-Based Approach to Regional Stormwater Management
This project seeks to integrate nature-based solutions in a regional stormwater management system in Ocean Springs to meet the challenges of future flood and development conditions, while increasing access to green space for residents.
Status: Active
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Gulf TREE
Gulf TREE is a search engine designed to match users with relevant climate resilience tools quickly, easily, and confidently.
Status: Maintained
SLR in the Classroom
The Sea-Level Rise in the Classroom project fosters science-to-civics literacy through a high school curriculum focused on sea-level rise resilience.
Status: Active
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Assessing Nature Based Solutions to Mitigate Flood Impacts and Enhance Resilience
This project will evaluate the effectiveness of nature-based solutions to mitigate compound flooding in Mobile Bay by incorporating flood mitigation strategies into models that inform coastal planning and decision-making.
Status: Active
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Marsh Model Retrospective
Because models of marsh response to sea-level rise provide a wealth of useful information to natural resource managers, it is important to be able to understand the similarities and differences among models.
Status: Active
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Saltwater Intrusion Working Group
The purpose of this working group is to enhance the security and resilience of our community’s natural and built infrastructure to saltwater intrusion along the northern Gulf of Mexico.
Status: Active
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Green Infrastructure Working Group
This has compiled a catalog of available living shoreline resources to help stakeholders across the Gulf find information on design and construction, cost, and permitting.
Status: Active
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SET Coordination
This project brings together surface elevation table (SET) practitioners from across the northern Gulf to close data gaps.
Status: Active
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Community Resilience in South Mobile County
The goal of this project is to increase community and individual action to reduce flooding risk as a result of knowledge gained from community dialogues regarding current and future flood risk and solutions.
Status: Active
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