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Conceptual diagram illustrating preparations for the effects of climate change: In an area where all of the organisms are alike, it is possible to lose an entire population due to a single pest infestation. Landscape with a variety of native, drought-resistant plants to support biodiversity and resilient backyard communities.
Biodiversity for Climate Change
Natural fiber logs for sale at a local hardware store in Cambridge MD. These logs are designed to be used in constructing a natural
Fiber logs
Conceptual diagram illustrating the mean sea level trends at Ocean City, MD and Norfolk, VA. Source: tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov
Local Sea Level Trends
What you can do to prepare for climate change diagram from
Prepare for climate change
Conceptual diagram illustrating a hardened shoreline vs a natural shoreline. The hardened shoreline has concrete rip-rap or a sea wall. It can be very costly and can also interrupt natural shoreline processes and sand movement that can lead to increased erosion downdrift from the structure. A natural shoreline incorporates native vegetation with a buffer strip of sand and/or fiber logs. It filters runoff and traps sediment, actually widening the beach, and providing valuable shoreline habitat for wildlife.
Shoreline erosion control
Even without a storm present, a full-moon high tide and the low Eastern Shore of Maryland can combine to flood roads, utilities, and waterfront properties.
Flooding, Eastern Shore, MD
Even without a storm present, a full-moon high tide and the low Eastern Shore of Maryland can combine to flood roads, utilities, and waterfront properties.
Flooding, Eastern Shore, MD
Even without a storm present, a full-moon high tide and the low Eastern Shore of Maryland can combine to flood roads, utilities, and waterfront properties.
Flooding, Eastern Shore, MD
Even without a storm present, a full-moon high tide and the low Eastern Shore of Maryland can combine to flood roads, utilities, and waterfront properties.
Flooding, Eastern Shore, MD
Front view illustration of a gasoline pump.
Retail: gasoline pump
Conceptual diagram illustrating south Florida, located along the southern margin of the temperate region of North America and the northern margin of the tropics.
South Florida climate zone
Conceptual diagram illustrating wet season (left) and dry season (right) variations in south Florida weather patterns.
South Florida weather patterns
Conceptual diagram illustrating saltwater intrusion on barrier islands due to climate change. As sea-level rises, ocean saltwater travels underground until it reaches the fresh groundwater in the mixing zone.
Saltwater Intrusion on Barrier Islands
Conceptual diagram illustrating relative seal-level rise based on global global sea levels and land subsistence; with examples from Key West, Florida and Galveston, Texas.
Relative Sea-level Rise
Conceptual diagram illustrating thermal expansion of the ocean in relation to climate change.
Experiment for Thermal Expansion
Conceptual diagram illustrating the effects of sea-level rise and storm surges on barrier islands. When sea-level rise combines with strong storms, barrier islands experience high storm surges, which increases the effects of flooding and erosion.
Sea-level Rise and Storm Surges on Barrier Islands
Conceptual diagram illustrating the effects of climate change on polar ice. There are two kinds of polar ice - ice that floats on the sea (sea ice) or ice that sits on land (land ice). The experiment demonstrates that sea ice does not impact sea-level rise when it melts, but land ice does add to sea-level rise when it melts into the ocean.
Experiment Demonstrating Melting Ice
Conceptual diagram illustrating what a waterfront owner can do to protect their property from climate change. Existing structures can be elevated in low-lying areas, and eco-friendly living shorelines can be implemented, to lessen climate change effects like flooding.
Elevation and Living Shoreline
Conceptual diagram illustrating changes due to the warming of the atmosphere. The average temperature on Earth has been increasing for many years, caused by increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Rising temperatures lead to a number of changes around the world.
Atmosphere Warming Changes
Conceptual diagram illustrating different monitoring activities implemented on Assateague Island to track changing habitats. Monitoring activities - which are habitat specific - include water quality, seagrass area, salt marsh nekton survey, surface elevation table, plover nests and fledgling success, upland elevation change, shoreline rate of change, and beach topography.
Monitoring Activities to Track Changing Habitats…
Sea-level causes overwash on island beaches such as here on Assateague Island, Maryland
Dune Overwash
Sea-level causes overwash on island beaches such as here on Assateague Island, Maryland
Dune Overwash
Diagram showing pressures to the world's coral reefs.
Diagram showing pressures to the world's coral…
The many benefits of a healthy ocean need to be managed with sustainable land use practices that reduce the flow of sediments, nutrients, and pathogens into coastal waters; catch limits and gear restrictions for fisheries are implemented; and non-extraction zones are established to maximize the well-being of selected marine habitats and to allow them to provide valuable ecosystem services.
Climate change impacts on ecosystem and management
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