Rising Seas, Chronic Floods, and the Implications for US Coastal Real Estate
Union of Concerned Scientists
“Sea levels are rising. Tides are inching higher. High-tide floods are becoming more frequent and reaching farther inland. And hundreds of US coastal communities will soon face chronic, disruptive flooding that directly affects people’s homes, lives, and properties.
Yet property values in most coastal real estate markets do not currently reflect this risk. And most homeowners, communities, and investors are not aware of the financial losses they may soon face.
This analysis looks at what’s at risk for US coastal real estate from sea level rise—and the challenges and choices we face now and in the decades to come.”
-Union of Concerned Scientists
Click HERE to learn more and download the report.
New Hampshire LiDAR Opportunity
NH Geological Survey and US Army Corps of Engineers
We have the opportunity to work with NH Geological Survey and the US Army Corps of Engineers to obtain topobathymetric and hyperspectral LiDAR data for the Great Bay and Hampton-Seabrook systems. This data would be very useful to so many of us and our organizations/initiatives/projects, but will take collaborative cost-sharing to pull off.
Funding in the amount of $69,000 is being sought within the next 2 months. The mission area that is scheduled to be flown late August/early September is identified HERE; zoom in for a detailed view of coastline in green.
If you can commit resources to this effort or have ideas for how we could find the funding, please email Rachel Rouillard (Rachel.Rouillard@unh.edu) as soon as possible. Feel free to forward this along to additional partners as well.
More information HERE.
Questions:
Rick Chormann
State Geologist and Director
NH Geological Survey
Frederick.Chorman@des.nh.gov
(603) 271-1975 |
