CLIMATE VULNERABILITY

The National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR) uses its living laboratories to find solutions to crucial issues facing America's coasts, including climate change and resilience. The NERR has developed a new tool to help communities understand how rising sea levels and changes in climate patterns will impact coastal habitats and the benefits they provide. The Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for Coastal Habitats (CCVATCH) is an evaluation process that brings scientists and decision makers together to create a shared understanding of how changes in climate and management practices will make a habitat more or less vulnerable in the future. Communities can use this knowledge to adapt their management, restoration, and conservation strategies to maintain the health of these habitats as environmental conditions change over time... The input of land managers, decision-makers, and researchers across agencies was sought to ensure that the CCVATCH would provide results that could..