Anne Herbst, the conservation agent for the town of Hull, Massachusetts, was selected as one of five national recipients of the 2010 Walter B. Jones Memorial Awards for Excellence in Local Government.
Herbst was given this competitive award for having raised the bar of local management of coastal hazards. Throughout Hull’s participation in the,
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Just a heads-up: we've got some exciting work to do on the StormSmart Coasts site.
We think you'll like the results, but in the meantime, we're going to pull the site down for a few hours Sunday evening (Feb. 21st) and put our robots to work. If you visit then, there's no telling what you might find. Rest assured, we should be up and running at full force,
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NOAA's National Weather Service has just announced that it will use a new hurricane scale this season called the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. The new scale keeps the same wind speed ranges as the original Saffir-Simpson Scale for each of the five hurricane categories, but no longer ties specific storm surge and flooding effects to each,
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This just across our desks:
"The challenge of living with water is one shared by cities and communities around the world. Nowhere is this more true than in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region, where people live with a daily awareness of the threat, and opportunity, of water. Please join us at the Building Resilience Workshop, to be held February,
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Dealing with storms means dealing with stormwater. EPA has just released a new resource for local governments to help them do just that. In their words:
"EPA has released a first-of-its-kind water quality scorecard designed to help communities in rural, suburban and urban settings incorporate green infrastructure practices to protect local water quality,
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Just announced: the 2010 Coastal Resilience Symposium will be held at Rice University (Houston) on May 26th. From the event's new webpage:
"Hurricane Ike was not the "Big One" for the Houston area, but it gave us a much clearer picture of what we might expect should a large hurricane make landfall to our southwest.
How well would we be able to recover?,
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From the always useful Ocean and Coastal Case Alert Newsletter:
"A Texas appellate court struck down a challenge from several beachfront property owners to the Texas Open Beaches Act. The homeowners filed the action seeking a declaratory judgment for their right to repair, maintain, and access their houses, as well as for damages for the loss of use of,
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Like California, eroding beaches on Cape Cod are threatening utilities, roads, and homes.
(click on picture to watch video on NECN's site).
Erosion Concerns on Cape Cod (via,
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California struggles with bigger waves and falling homes. Click on the picture to head over to their site for the video.
"Debate Emerges on How to Fight Coastal Erosion" via KGO-TV.,
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Approximately 125,000 of State Farm's "most vulnerable customers" in Florida should brace themselves to receive some potentially bad news: their policies with State Farm Insurance are being cancelled.
MSNBC and others are reporting that State Farm Florida will be canceling policies for nearly a fifth of its clients, most of them in coastal areas. It began,
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