Resources
Knowing what and where resources are is essential to learning and ensuring equitable communication. The second part of ACKlimate’s mission is to support holistic communication addressing climate change, and organizing this resources page is one way we can achieve this mission. The resources are divided into sections based on subject and publisher, and the type of resource is labeled with an icon explained below.
Informative Document
Includes reports, plans, news, documents, websites, and organizations
Modeling and Visualizations
Static or interactive illustrations of sea level rise, erosion or other climate effects
Podcast
Episodes or channels of audio shows on topics of climate change
Resource Repository
Includes toolkits or resource lists created by other entities for further reserach
Video Recording
Includes recordings of webinars, conferences, lectures, or other items for viewing
Nantucket
- Coastal Resilience Plan
- Coastal Risk Assessment and Resiliency Strategies
- Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge Survey, 2021
- Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge Survey Press Release
- Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan
- Resilient Nantucket
- FEMA Coastal Erosion Hazard Study
- Coastal Resilience Library
- Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge
- Coastal Resilience Plan Open House 2021
- Digital Documentation and Sea Level Rise Visualizations, 2020
- Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge Speaker Series Recordings 2021
- Preservation Insitute Nantucket Final Presentation 2020
- Public Presentation on Adaptation Guidelines
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Final Presentation, 2020
Massachusetts
- Climate Action Mass
- CREW: Communities Responding to Extreme Weather
- Floodplain Regulations and Historic Structures in Massachusetts
- Island Climate Action Network
- Massachusetts Flood Awareness Month
- Massachusetts Homeowner's Handbook to Prepare for Coastal Hazards, 2020
- Massachusetts State Historic Preservation Plan
- MIT | Climate Science, Risk & Solutions: Climate Knowledge for Everyone
- Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Program
- Resilient MA Clearinghouse
- State of Massachusetts Climate Action
- Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model
National
- Arctic Report Card: Update for 2020
- Building Community Resilience with Nature-Based Solutions: A Guide for Local Communities
- Climate Change in the American Mind: December 2020
- Flood Insurance Manual, 2020
- Guidelines on Flood Adaptation for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings
- Hazard Mitigation Assistance Guidance
- Hazard Mitigation Assistance Guidance Addendum
- Homeowner's Guide to Retrofitting
- Minorities in Climate Action
- Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties
- Climate Central Surging Seas: Risk Finder
- FEMA Flood Map Center
- NASA Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite
- NOAA Sea Level Rise Viewer (Nantucket uses the High Scenario)
- Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Climate Opinion Maps
- Resources for the Future Commission
Webinar and Conference Recordings
- Keeping History Above Water: Nantucket
- America Adapts Podcast Episode: Keeping History Above Water St. Augustine
- Addressing the Climate Crisis Digitally: The Power of Imagery to Communicate the Urgency of Acting Now
- Black Lives and the Climate Crisis, The Climate Museum 2020
- Dr. Andrea Dutton, Maria Mitchell Association Presentation 2020
- Dr. Jennifer Karberg, Maria Mitchell Association Presentation 2020
- Historic Buildings as a Climate Response Tool
- Keeping History Above Water Nantucket: Jeff Goodell
- Managing Water as Sea Levels Rise, Nantucket Civic League, 2021
- Ocean Encounters: Hurricanes, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute 2020
- Rescuing History: Nantucket in Response to Rising Seas, 2020
Funding Opportunities
- Hazard Mitigation Grant Program for Individuals
- Hazard Mitigation Grants for Governments
- Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Grant Program Infographic
- EPA Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement Program
- EPA Environmental Justice Small Grants Program
- Mass DEP Reduce, Reuse, Repair Micro-Grants
- Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management Coastal Pollutant Remediation Grant Program
- Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management Coastal Resilience Grant Program
- Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Program Action Grant
- Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Program Planning Grant
- Division of Conservation Services Parkland Acquisitions and Renovations for Communities Grant Program
National and International Case Studies
- Boston Resilient, Historic Buildings Design Guide
- Boston: Coastal Flood Resilience Design Guidelines
- Charleston Design Guidelines for Elevating Historic Buildings
- Florida Adaptation Planning for Historic Properties
- Miami Beach | Rising Above
- Miami Buoyant City: Historic District Resiliency & Adaptation Guidelines
- State of Hawai'i Climate Change Portal
- Stockade Historic District Flood Mitigation Design Guidelines
- Falmouth Coastal Resiliency Planning for the Surf Drive Area, 2020
Local Climate News
- First collaborative dune-stabilization project takes shape at Hither Creek, April 1, 2021
- Why Article 97 is a bad idea and will harm Nantucket, April 1, 2021
- Town considering changes to loosen HDC guidelines for solar panels, March 25, 2021
- Vineyard Wind clears environmental hurdle, March 18, 2021
- Ocean acidification seen as growing problem for fisheries, March 4, 2021
- Oyster reef eyed to combat sea-level rise, March 4, 2021
- Study finds microplastics in the harbor and the food chain, February 25, 2021
- Homeowners on Sheep Pond Road face lack of access due to erosion, February 21, 2021
- Erosion cuts off access to Sheep Pond Road, February 15, 2021
- State makes cranberry bog wetlands restoration a top priority, February 1, 2021
- Coastal resiliency all about bouncing back, coordinator says, January 14, 2021
