Last time I blogged I asked you to stay tuned for the upcoming document Keeping Pace: A short guide to navigating sea-level rise models.
Well now I’m here to tell you that it’s out and ready for action!
Keeping Pace is designed to guide decision-makers to the right tool for the right job; an important task that can be daunting when you take into account everything that is currently available. It is a starting point to help individuals narrow down the field of sea-level rise (SLR) tools and models to a suite of models that apply to a specific community need.
Keeping Pace was born from an excellent document generated by the USGS called Sea-level rise modeling handbook: Resource guide for coastal land managers, engineers, and scientists. It is 76 pages of detailed information on processes that impact sea-level rise (SLR), SLR observing and modeling methods, and descriptions of model categories. This document, while extremely useful, is generally too lengthy for a city planner or resource manager who already has 17,000 other things going on. We decided to generate a guide based on the categories within the USGS Handbook to synthesize the handbook and other available science.
Keeping Pace includes:
We will be distributing hard copies of Keeping Pace at the upcoming Gulf of Mexico Alliance All Hands meeting and hope to see you there. There is also a digital version online, along with the categorized list of models, that can be found on our website, www.ngomssc.org.
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