Shared on behalf of Monica Allard Cox, Rhode Island Sea Grant

Three Rhode Island communities will serve as new pilot projects to increase coastal resilience to climate change impacts, such as sea level rise, flooding, and increased storminess.

The project will explore landscape methods that are natural – or that mimic nature – to restore ecosystem services (habitat and stormwater filtration, for example) to developed areas.

The project, funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the U.S. Department of the Interior, is led by Pamela Rubinoff and Teresa Crean, extension specialists with the URI Graduate School of Oceanography’s Coastal Resources Center and Rhode Island Sea Grant. It will look at how green infrastructure, typically used to reduce and treat stormwater, could be used in coastal areas in Newport, Warwick, and North Kingstown, to aid those municipalities’ efforts to make their communities more resilient. The project kicked off with a meeting on April 16 with project partners.

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