#naturalhazard — Public Fediverse posts

The Growing Threat of Flooding on Transportation Infrastructure Across Texas Through 2100
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2026EF008207 <--shared paper
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H/T @Rakibul Ahasan
“[The researchers] modeled flood susceptibility across Texas at 30 m resolution and projected how it shifts through 2100. The headline is not just that flood risk grows, but that it moves, into places current planning and regulatory maps are not watching. The July 2025 Kerrville flooding sat squarely inside the kind of inland hazard expansion this model projects.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
● 95% of new flood exposure by 2100 is inland, away from the coast, shifting the resilience problem into interior river basins that planning has historically deprioritized.
● Where [they] benchmarked against FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layer, the model flags substantial hidden risk in rapidly urbanizing peri-urban areas, most notably in Greater Houston.
● Climate change alone expands the flood-susceptible footprint by 10–12% by 2100, before any new road or land-use development, so this is a conservative floor, not a ceiling.
● Half the state's roads and rail and 80% of its bridges already sit in flood-susceptible zones today.
● [They] accounted for both factor-importance and spatial-scale uncertainty, using a Monte Carlo weight-perturbation ensemble and multiscale analysis across nested neighborhoods.
The practical takeaway: this is a statewide screening layer, not a replacement for site-level hydraulic studies. It shows planners and policymakers where the gap between today's protection and tomorrow's risk is widest, and where unmapped peri-urban growth is walking into exposure that regulatory maps still call safe…”
#water #hydrology #hydrography #extremeweather #flood #flooding #Texas #TX #USA #transportation #infrastructure #humanimpacts #risk #hazard #cost #economics #floodsusceptibility #GIS #spatial #mapping #raster #elevation #modeling #model #spatialanalysis #planning #regulation #warning #Kerrville #hazardmapping #floodexposure #inland #coast #urban #urbanisation #development #growth #Houston #lowlying #climatechange #landuse #development #geostatstics #MonteCarlo #regionalscreening #naturalhazard #infrastructureresilience #floodmapping #hydrogeomorphology #geomorphometry #aginginfrastructure

Pan-European Assessment Of Coastal Flood Hazards
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-26-1859-2026 <-- shared paper
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#coast #coastal #flood #flooding #model #modeling #Europe #UK #naturalhazard #extremeweather #bathtub #dynamic #stormsurge #remotesensing #GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #risk #hazard #assessment #water #hydrology #marine #hydrography #hydrograph #meansealevel #MSL #tides #waves #tidal #parameters #DEM #dynamicmodels #floodplain #literaturereview

What Shapes Earthquake Risk In Bangladesh? Geospatial Insights From Physical And Social Factors Using A Spatial Meta-Regression Approach
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-026-01089-4 <-- shared paper
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#EarthquakeRisk #GIS #Bangladesh #DisasterManagement #SEAsia #GIS #spatial #mapping #risk #hazard #earthquake #naturalhazard #urban #rural #infrastructure #publicsafety #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #geomorphology #geology #tectonics #social #cultural #demographics #fault #faulting #factoranalysis #seismichazard #model #modeling #socioeconomics #geophysics #remotesensing #geostatistics #landuse #framework #magnitude #engineering #buildingcode #mitigation #zoning #development #growth #vulnerability

Karst Flash Floods - An Example From The Dinaric Karst (Croatia)
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-6-195-2006 <-- shared (older) paper
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#flood #flooding #pluvial #fluvial #subsurface #risk #hazard #naturalhazard #disaster #flashflood #infrastructure #damage #building #destabilisation #foundations #karstburst #Marina #Dinaric #Croatia #extremeweather #climatechange #intense #prolonged #rainfall #precipitation #speed #fast #caves #conduits #fractures #aquifers #water #hydrology #groundwater #hydrogeology #waterpressure #sinkhole #subsidence #massmovement #landslide #monitoring #mapping #geology #engineeringgeology #hydroseismic #humanimpacts #lossoflife #death #karstterrain #springs #debris #sediment #cavities #riskassessment #Grazalema #Andalusia #Cadíz #Spain #StormLeonard #emergencymanagement #planning

Growing Meltwater Reservoirs – Glacial Lakes Are Both A Resource And A Habitat Worthy Of Protection
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https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/headlines-and-featured-stories/detail/2026-01-28-growing-meltwater-reservoirs-glacial-lakes-are-both-a-resource-and-a-habitat-worthy-of-protection <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-025-00578-6 <-- shared paper
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https://github.com/geveh/LakeVolumes <-- shared GitHub ‘code base’
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#glaciallakes #GLOF #geomorphology #glaciers #hydrology #waterresources #glacier #melting #retreating #hydrogeomorphology #GIS #spatial #mapping #global #spatialanalysis #global #cryosphere #ice #water #hydrology #mountains #highaltitude #naturalresource #freshwater #reservoir #sediment #sedimentation #spatiotemporal #remotesensing #earthobservation #landcover #Arctic #coastal #meltwater #lake #longevity #watersecurity #risk #hazard #ecosystem #habitat #naturalhazard #planning #tourism #economy #usecase #watersupply #worldwide #population #demographics #glacial
@University of Potsdam | @University Of Leeds

Growing Meltwater Reservoirs – Glacial Lakes Are Both A Resource And A Habitat Worthy Of Protection
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https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/headlines-and-featured-stories/detail/2026-01-28-growing-meltwater-reservoirs-glacial-lakes-are-both-a-resource-and-a-habitat-worthy-of-protection <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-025-00578-6 <-- shared paper
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https://github.com/geveh/LakeVolumes <-- shared GitHub ‘code base’
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#glaciallakes #GLOF #geomorphology #glaciers #hydrology #waterresources #glacier #melting #retreating #hydrogeomorphology #GIS #spatial #mapping #global #spatialanalysis #global #cryosphere #ice #water #hydrology #mountains #highaltitude #naturalresource #freshwater #reservoir #sediment #sedimentation #spatiotemporal #remotesensing #earthobservation #landcover #Arctic #coastal #meltwater #lake #longevity #watersecurity #risk #hazard #ecosystem #habitat #naturalhazard #planning #tourism #economy #usecase #watersupply #worldwide #population #demographics #glacial
@University of Potsdam | @University Of Leeds

Comparing Flood Inundation Map Features and Diagnosing Decision Support Design Challenges
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https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.70362 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #climatechange #extremeweather #pluvial #fluvial #water #surfacewater #precipitation #flood #flooding #floodinnundation #innundation #NOAA #FIM #floodinnundationmaps #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #floodresponse #response #naturalhazard #monitoring #forecasting #forecast #visualisation #FIMAN #remotesensing #Copernicus #impactassessment #research #emergencymanagement #humanimpact #safety #publicsafety #risk #hazard #infrastructure #FloodMapper #floodwatch #flashflood
@FEMA | @NOAA | @USGS |

How to Download and Visualize NASA-ISRO NISAR Data in QGIS | Step-by-Step Tutorial [shared]
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https://youtu.be/oRTplHPf_T0 <-- shared video tutorial
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https://github.com/opengeos/qgis-nasa-earthdata-plugin <-- shared NASA Earthdata Plugin for QGIS
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https://science.nasa.gov/mission/nisar/ <-- shared #NASA NISAR mission home page
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H/T Qiusheng Wu
#remotesensing #earthobservation #tutorial #training #onlinelearning #download #visualisation #NISAR #opendata #satellite #NASA #Earthdata #QGIS #plugin #SAR #icemovement #ecosystems #vegetation #biomass #naturalhazard #risk #hazard #NetCDF #spatialvisualisation
@QGIS | @nasa

Thirty Years of the U.S. National Land Cover Database - Impacts and Future Direction
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https://doi.org/10.14358/PERS.25-00121R2 <-- shared paper
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“Editor's choice article for the October Issue of Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing.”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #opendata #earthobservation #landcover #USA #NLCD #MRLCC #history #datacollection #impervioussurface #classifaction #landform #forestcanopy #fedscience #fedservice #deeplearning #AI #spatialanalysis #change #monitoring #usecase #research #landmanagement #management #policy #planning #support #agriculture #urbanplanning #environment #ecosystems #biodiversity #conservation #water #hydrology #humanhealth #risk #hazard #soils #naturalhazard #spatiotemporal #landchange #forestry #watermanagement #waterquality #publicsafety #groundwater #NCLA #wildfire #stormwater #extremeweather
#USGS #EROS #NASA #USFS

Thirty Years Of The U.S. National Land Cover Database [NLCD] - Impacts And Future Direction
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https://doi.org/10.14358/PERS.25-00121R2 <-- shared paper
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https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/science/annual-national-land-cover-database <-- shared #USGS Annual National Land Cover Database (open data)
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https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/science/annual-national-land-cover-database <-- get the open NLCD data
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #history #continuity #improvement #LandCover #Landuse #change #Landsat #NLCD #NationalLandCoverDatabase #earthobservation #remotesensing #landchange #monitoring #fedscience #publicgood #fedopendata #opendata #history #fedservice #MRLCC #USA #download #impervious #surface #forestcanopy #mosaics #accuracy #deeplearning #AI #research #landmanagement #agriculture #water #hydrology #cropland #biodiversity #conservation #urban #planning #publichealth #naturalhazard #assesment #risk #hazard #mitigation #national #nation #multiple #usecase
#USGS | #EROS

The March 1940 Superstorm - Geoelectromagnetic Hazards And Impacts On American Communication And Power Systems
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2022SW003379 <-- shared paper
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#spaceweather #geomagnetic #history #historic #1940 #USA #measurement #spatialanalysis #geomagnetism #risk #hazard #effects #ICME #CME #coronalmassejection #interference #electricity #electrical #utilities #infrastructure #impacts #communications #telecommunications #geoelectromagnetic #solarwind #magneticstorm #humanimpacts #geoelectric #geology #soil #operations #transmission #power #energy #energysupply #naturalhazard@USGS | @CIRES

Improving Earthquake Early Warning Access For The Deaf Community
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https://eos.org/articles/improving-earthquake-early-warning-access-for-the-deaf-community <-- shared technical article
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https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1577653 <-- shared AGU poster details
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-024-06719-6 <-- shared paper
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#earthquake #risk #alert #deaf #hardofhearing #community #publichealth #risk #hazard #ShakeAlert #warning #warningsystems #DHH+ #fatality #death #earlywarning #publicsafety #naturalhazard #socialvulnerability #EEW #alert #emergency #language #sociolinguistic

Earthquake Hazard Uncertainties Improved Using Precariously Balanced Rocks
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2020AV000182 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #geomorphometry #probabilistic #seismichazard #analysis #PSHA #groundmotion #earthquake #risk #hazard #naturalhazard #quantitative #fault #faulting #geology #engineeringgeology #empirical #balancedrocks #PBR #California #cosmogenic #10Be #dating #model #modeling #hazardmodel #probability #infrastructure #cost #economics

[Canadian] National Elevation Data Strategy Newsletter [NRCAN]
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https://gogeomatics.ca/national-elevation-data-strategy-a-significant-coverage-increase/ <-- shared technical newsletter
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #LiDAR #elevation #opendata #airborneLiDAR #AutomaticallyExtractedBuildings #buildingfootprints #Canada #CanElevation #CGVD2013 #CopernicusDEM #dataacquisition #digitalelevationmodel #DEM #Digitalsurfacemodel #DigitalTerrainModel #DSM #DTM #elevationproducts #FloodHazardMapping #geographicdata #highresolutiondata #HRDEM #HRDEMmosaic #PointCloud #mediumresolutionelevationmodel #MRDEM #NAD83 #NationalElevationDataStrategy #NRCAN #topographicaldata #vectorformat #flood #flooding #extremeweather #climatechange #naturalhazard #risk #hazard #datacoverage
@NRCAN

[Canadian] National Elevation Data Strategy Newsletter [NRCAN]
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https://gogeomatics.ca/national-elevation-data-strategy-a-significant-coverage-increase/ <-- shared technical newsletter
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #LiDAR #elevation #opendata #airborneLiDAR #AutomaticallyExtractedBuildings #buildingfootprints #Canada #CanElevation #CGVD2013 #CopernicusDEM #dataacquisition #digitalelevationmodel #DEM #Digitalsurfacemodel #DigitalTerrainModel #DSM #DTM #elevationproducts #FloodHazardMapping #geographicdata #highresolutiondata #HRDEM #HRDEMmosaic #PointCloud #mediumresolutionelevationmodel #MRDEM #NAD83 #NationalElevationDataStrategy #NRCAN #topographicaldata #vectorformat #flood #flooding #extremeweather #climatechange #naturalhazard #risk #hazard #datacoverage
@NRCAN

[Canadian] National Elevation Data Strategy Newsletter [NRCAN]
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https://gogeomatics.ca/national-elevation-data-strategy-a-significant-coverage-increase/ <-- shared technical newsletter
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #LiDAR #elevation #opendata #airborneLiDAR #AutomaticallyExtractedBuildings #buildingfootprints #Canada #CanElevation #CGVD2013 #CopernicusDEM #dataacquisition #digitalelevationmodel #DEM #Digitalsurfacemodel #DigitalTerrainModel #DSM #DTM #elevationproducts #FloodHazardMapping #geographicdata #highresolutiondata #HRDEM #HRDEMmosaic #PointCloud #mediumresolutionelevationmodel #MRDEM #NAD83 #NationalElevationDataStrategy #NRCAN #topographicaldata #vectorformat #flood #flooding #extremeweather #climatechange #naturalhazard #risk #hazard #datacoverage
@NRCAN

[Canadian] National Elevation Data Strategy Newsletter [NRCAN]
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https://gogeomatics.ca/national-elevation-data-strategy-a-significant-coverage-increase/ <-- shared technical newsletter
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #LiDAR #elevation #opendata #airborneLiDAR #AutomaticallyExtractedBuildings #buildingfootprints #Canada #CanElevation #CGVD2013 #CopernicusDEM #dataacquisition #digitalelevationmodel #DEM #Digitalsurfacemodel #DigitalTerrainModel #DSM #DTM #elevationproducts #FloodHazardMapping #geographicdata #highresolutiondata #HRDEM #HRDEMmosaic #PointCloud #mediumresolutionelevationmodel #MRDEM #NAD83 #NationalElevationDataStrategy #NRCAN #topographicaldata #vectorformat #flood #flooding #extremeweather #climatechange #naturalhazard #risk #hazard #datacoverage
@NRCAN

Earthquake Mitigation Planning Guide for Communities! [FEMA]
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https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/FEMA_Earthquake_Mitigation_Planning_Guide_for_Communities508.pdf <-- shared guide
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#earthquake #risk #hazard #mitigation #planning #guidelines #community #communities #guide #resources #NIST #engineering #design #geology #engineeringgeology #geotechnical #cost #economics #buildings #infrastructure #naturalhazard #publicsafety #naturaldisaster #disaster #seismic #seismology #seismicfunctionalityrecovery #hazardmitigationplan #impacts
@FEMA

Fuel For Hurricane Milton [remotesensing, NASA]
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https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153429/fuel-for-hurricane-milton <-- shared technical article
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https://weather.ndc.nasa.gov/sport/ <-- shared link to NASA SPoRT page
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #HurricanMilton #hurricanemilton2024 #HurricaneWarning #hurricane #extremeweather #remotesensing #climatechange #ocean #oceantemperatures #temperatures #Florida #GulfOfMexico #seasurfacetemperatures #risk #hazard #storm #stormsurge #flooding #wind #SPoRT #VIIRS #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #weather #weatherforecasting #satellite #global #coast #coastal #nowCOAST #disaster #naturaldisaster #naturalhazard #prediction #mitigation #planning #management #cost #economy
@nasa

Assessing Landslide Risk in Prince William Sound
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https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/assessing-landslide-risks-prince-william-sound <-- shared technical article
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https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20231099 <-- shared USGS open file report (OFR)
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #3dep #ifsar #elevation #geology #engineeringgeology #massmovement #landslide #risk #hazard #tsunami #Alaska #PrinceWilliamSound #naturalhazard #climatechange #glaciers #slopes #glacial #sediment #instability #slopestability #coast #coastal #monitoring #model #modeling #statistics #geostatistics #spatialstatistics #ChugachMountains #tsunamigenic #NationalTsunamiWarningCenter #spatialanalysis #geomorphology #geomorphometry
@USGS

Major Fluvial Erosion And A 500-Mt Sediment Pulse Triggered By Lava-Dam Failure, Río Coca, Ecuador
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https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5751 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #hydrology #erosion #volcanic #landscape #fluvial #risk #hazard #sediment #lava #dam #failure #RioCoca #ecuador #watershed #massmovement #scouring #river #model #modeling #geotechnical #geology #geomorphology #geomorphometry #tributaries #waterfall #naturalhazard #naturaldisaster #waterquality #publicsafety #economy #infrastructure #autogenic #volcaniclandscapes

First-Ever Award For Natural Resource Restoration By FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Program [Puerto Rico]
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https://coralreef.noaa.gov/issues/nature_based_restoration.html <-- shared technical article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #puertorico #coral #hurricane #hurricanemaria #naturalhazard #naturaldisasters #mitigation #spatialanalysis #hazardmitigation #fema #coralreefs #coralrestoration #coraldisease #earthquakes #storm #stormsurge #extremeweather #stonycoral #restoration #sanjuan #naturalresource #coast #coastal #coastalengineering #coastalprotection #coastalcommunities #funding #waveenergy #artificialreef #marine #nearshore #shoreline #currents #erosion #flooding
@femaregion2 @usgs

First-Ever Award For Natural Resource Restoration By FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Program [Puerto Rico]
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https://coralreef.noaa.gov/issues/nature_based_restoration.html <-- shared technical article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #puertorico #coral #hurricane #hurricanemaria #naturalhazard #naturaldisasters #mitigation #spatialanalysis #hazardmitigation #fema #coralreefs #coralrestoration #coraldisease #earthquakes #storm #stormsurge #extremeweather #stonycoral #restoration #sanjuan #naturalresource #coast #coastal #coastalengineering #coastalprotection #coastalcommunities #funding #waveenergy #artificialreef #marine #nearshore #shoreline #currents #erosion #flooding
@femaregion2 @usgs

NOAA And NSF To Create Research Center In Response To Insurance Industry Climate Needs
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https://www.noaa.gov/stories/noaa-and-nsf-to-create-research-center-in-response-to-insurance-industry-climate-needs <-- shared article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #model #modeling #climatechange #business #data #future #research #insuranceindustry #property #insurance #building #science #events #risk #hazard #disaster #extremeweather #extremeheat #naturalhazard #economy #economicimpacts #publicsafety #damage #impact #impactassessment #climate #weather #water #hydrology
@noaa #NSF #NOAA

Climate Change And Crumbling Infrastructure Create A ‘Perfect Storm’ For Americans Living In Flood Zone
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https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/3978721-climate-change-and-crumbling-infrastructure-create-a-perfect-storm-for-americans-living-in-flood-zones/ <-- shared article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0437-5 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping # #infrastructure #realestate #sustainability #climatechange #people #development #future #property #tax #maintenance #engineers #concrete #work #model #modeling #flood #flooding #naturalhazard #naturalhazards #naturaldisaster #river #rivercontrol #floodmapping #floodzones #weather #mitigation #floodcontrol #planning #risk #hazard #levees #levee #dam #riverside #oceanside #community #coastalcommunities #coastalengineering #coastalresilience #natural #engineered #floodplains