On Wednesday, September 18th - as part of the Hudson Estuary Watershed Resiliency Project's Seminar Series - Jason Winner, Conservation GIS Manager for Scenic Hudson presented on the new Sea Level Rise Mapper. The mapper is a tool for communities and stakeholders to use to create visualizations of future scenarios of sea level rise. With these maps and information, Scenic Hudson is supporting communities' efforts to develop adaptation plans by helping them to: - create maps of the extent and impacts of inundation and flood zone expansion - understand the locations of key built and natural resources - create graphics that illustrate different sea level rise scenarios in specific communities or stretches of the river - estimate the risks to infrastructure and natural resources and the likelihoods of different inundation events - develop alternative adaptation scenarios and weigh their cost and benefits with respect to built infrastructure and natural resources ** The Sea Level Rise Mapper can be found on Scenic Hudson's website at: http://www.scenichudson.org/slr/mapper For more information, contact Jason Winner at Scenic Hudson at (845) 473-4440 ext 223, or jwinner@scenichudson.org

1. Case Studies
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2. Case Study – Revitalizing Hudson Riverfronts
Where conditions allow:
a)Promote riverfront greenway
corridor
b)Preserve and restore
floodplains
c) Locate critical infrastructure
above the 500-year
floodplain
d)Update policies for resilience
e) Promote green development
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3. Case Study – Kingston Sea Level Rise Task Force
Successful Strategies:
a)Political support
b)Engage stakeholders
c) Develop climate
adaptation plans
d)Plan for future conditions
e) Update policies for
resilience
f) Leverage external drivers
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4. Conclusion
A Roadmap for Sea Level Rise
Planning for Sea Level Rise will Prepare
Communities for Balanced Adaptation and
Resilience

5. •Land Conservation Strategies
•Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM)
•Storm event modeling
•Engage with Stakeholders
•Share data
•New Features on Website
Next Steps?
A Roadmap for Sea Level Rise

6. Next Steps - SLAMM
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7. Next Steps – Community Outreach
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8. A GIS Roadmap for Sea Level Rise
Funders
Sarah K. de Coizart Article TENTH Perpetual Charitable Trust
Whitney Foundation
Wildlife Conservation Society
Sean Eldridge
Collaboration, Partnership, and Training
Hudson River Estuary Program – Project Partner
Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve
The Nature Conservancy – Eastern New York & Long Island
Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
NOAA Coastal Services Center
Stony Brook University
Acknowledgements and Collaboration

9. NOAA Coastal Services Center
http://csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/list
The Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) Tools Network
http://www.ebmtools.org/about_ebm_tools.html
Sea Level Rise Mapper: “www.scenichudson.org/slr”
LiDAR: “gis.ny.gov/elevation”
Census block data: “factfinder2.census.gov”
Advisory BFE’s: “www.region2coastal.com”
NYSDEC Climate Smart Communities:
“http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/50845.html”
Tools and Websites of Interest
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WEBSITESTOOLS