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Manatee in Port of the Islands, Florida.
Manatee
Sign indicating idle speed zone due to manatee presence in Port of the Islands, Florida.
Manatee warning sign
Mangroves and oyster reefs at Pumpkin Bay in the Ten Thousand Islands, Florida.
Mangroves and oyster reefs
Illustration of a ghost forest, which can be caused by sea-level rise, land subsidence, or both. As land subsides along the coast, trees can drown in saturated soils, creating ghost forests. Salt-water intrusion into groundwater can also cause salt-intolerant trees to die.
Climate change: ghost forest
View of melted snowman
Snowman: melted
Conceptual diagram illustrating preparations for the effects of climate change: Elevating and moving houses and utilities away from flood plain boundaries make them less vulnerable to storms and may lower flood insurance rates. Rather than building a concrete levy to protect property, consider a natural shoreline that offers the same benefit.
Adaptation to Climate Change
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
Illustration of a bulk cutter, used for deep sea mining.
Deep sea mining: bulk cutter
Tool to mine the sea floor.
Deep sea mining: seafloor mining tool
Illustration of a support vessel for deep sea mining.
Deep sea mining: support vessel
Illustration of a volcanic island with reef, waterfall and atoll
Reef 3D: volcanic island with waterfall and atoll
Illustration of satellite-tracked drifter, a remote sensing instrument.
Satellite-tracked drifter
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
Illustration of a holothurian or sea cucumber.
Holothurian 1
Coastal road and seawall to the northeast of Apia, Samoa.
Coastal road and seawall in Samoa
Aerial View of sediment plumes in the Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Bay Sediment Plumes
Aerial View of sediment plumes in the Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Bay Sediment Plumes
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