Sea Level Rise
Online set of lesson plans from NOAA’s Data in the Classroom project: http://dataintheclassroom.org/content/sea-level/
Resources for background information:
- State of the Bay report is a very recent compilation of research that judges the Bay’s health on a variety of important topics: http://www.sfestuary.org/StateofSFBay2011/
- “The Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on The California Coast” can be downloaded here: http://www.pacinst.org/reports/sea_level_rise/report.pdf (While you are on the Pacific Institute’s website, you may be interested in looking at their sea level rise mapping tool that is more focused on flooding in urban areas: http://www.pacinst.org/reports/sea_level_rise/gmap.html)
Sea level rise modeling and visualization tools:
- PRBO Conservation Science’s sea level rise tool (Julian Wood shared this resource during the workshop): http://data.prbo.org/apps/sfbslr/
- Pacific Institute’s sea level rise tool (more focused on urban areas: http://www.pacinst.org/reports/sea_level_rise/gmap.html
Agenda from Sea Level Rise workshop.