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This page is for tracking interesting information and links that I am using to advance my knowledge of adaptation strategies to sea level rise and related climate change phenomena in coastal communities like Marshfield, Massachusetts.
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A work in progress.
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== Agencies and Organizations ==
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=== Government ===
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* Town of Marshfield (Town Admin, Town Planner, Board of Selectmen)
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** Coastal Advisory Committee
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** [http://marshfieldenergy.org/ Energy Committee]
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** Waterways Committee
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** DPW
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** Conservation Commission
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** [http://www.townofmarshfield.org/Collateral/Documents/English-US/planning/South%20Shore%20Coastal%20Adaptation%20Planning%20Report%2012-31-11.pdf South Shore Coastal Hazards Adaptation Study]
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** [http://www.townofmarshfield.org/Collateral/Documents/English-US/planning/South%20Shore%20Sea%20Level%20Rise%20meeting%205-16-13.pdf Sea Level Rise Study Duxbury, Marshfield, Scituate, MA Presentation Slides] (Kleinfelder) 16 May 2013 and the [http://50.116.92.219/~marsh/Marshfield/SeaLevel-Rise-Study/South%20Shore%20Sea%20Level%20Rise%20Study.pdf actual report] (27 MB PDF file)
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*** [http://www.townofmarshfield.org/4aaaca72-8075-4405-bcee-20183bde5798/news-notices-detail.htm Press release about the study presentation]
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*** [http://www.wickedlocal.com/scituate/news/x1379224900/Towns-tackle-sea-level-rise#axzz2V4Khx78S Towns tackle sea level rise] Marshfield Mariner 23 May 2013
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*State
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** CZM
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*** [http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/czm/program-areas/stormsmart-coasts/seawall-inventory/ StormSmart Coasts - Inventories of Seawalls and Other Coastal Structures]
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** DEP
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* Federal
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** ACE
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** EPA
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** FEMA
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** NOAA
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** NWS
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** NASA-GISS
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** FWS
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*** See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_Barrier_Resources_Act Coastal Barrier Resources Act] web page: http://www.fws.gov/cbra/
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=== Private ===
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* http://www.marshfieldcoastalcoalition.org
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== GIS Resources ==
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Geographical Information System: data layers on maps.
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*[http://fctpermit.com/gis/marshfield/index.asp Marshfield Online GIS]
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* [http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/it-serv-and-support/application-serv/office-of-geographic-information-massgis/municipal-gis/learn-about-gis/ MassGIS], Massachusetts GIS services.
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* The 600 pound gorilla of the GIS software world is ArcGIS. The personal use version is around $100/year. The fully powered version is typically licensed by institutions for an order of magnitude more dollars than the personal version.  [http://www.qgis.org/ QunatumGIS] is a free, open source alternative.
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**[http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/#/ArcGIS_tutorials/00qn0000013t000000/ ArcGIS tutorials]
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**[http://web-facstaff.sas.upenn.edu/~dromano/classes/gis/files/Getting_Started_with_ArcGIS.pdf Getting Started with ArcGIS]
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* The following are a number of links mostly only useful for me, having to do with institutional resources for GIS usage at MIT.
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** [http://arrowsmith.mit.edu/mitogp/ MIT GeoWeb]
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** [http://libguides.mit.edu/gis/ MIT Libraries GIS Home]
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** [http://libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=347508&sid=2844938 Tutorial and Help]
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** [http://libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=347508&sid=2844941 GIS Software]
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** [http://libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=347508&sid=2843929 MIT Geodata Repository]
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** [http://libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=347508&sid=2843986 Land Use and Land Cover Data]
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== Climate Change and Adaptation ==
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=== Web and stuff ===
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* [http://www.agu.org/sci_pol/positions/climate_change2008.shtml American Geophysical Union Position Statement on "Human Impacts on Climate"]
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* [http://www.aip.org/history/climate/index.htm "The Discovery of Global Warming"], a history by the American Physical Society. See also the [http://www.aps.org/policy/statements/07_1.cfm AIP positon statement] on climate change.
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* [http://climatechange.umaine.edu/ University of Maine Climate Change Institute]
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**[http://climatechange.umaine.edu/graduate/igert  Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change IGERT Program], also http://a2c2igert.umaine.edu/
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** [http://a2c2igert.umaine.edu/people/ A2C2 people]
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPtW9jXiMmE Mo Correll]'s work on abrupt climate change in Atlantic tidal marshes.
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* [http://cci-reanalyzer.org/Reanalyzer/index_tseries.php The Climate Reanalyzer] Run your own maps and visualizations!
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*[http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php Global Warming and Climate Change Myths]
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas Younger Dryas] (Wikipedia), a commonly cited example of "abrupt climate change", in contrast to "gradual climate change", such as the long slow warming trend since the end of the last glacial maximum 20,000 years ago. The Younger Dryas event lasted about 1300 years (12.8--11.5 thousand years ago) and mostly affected high northern latitudes. It was a temporary return to glacial conditions. It is remarkable in that the transition from interglacial to glacial conditions appears to have occurred over less than 10 years.
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* [http://www.coastalengineering.org/ www.coastalengineering.org] Coastal Engineering Resources link page
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* [http://www.whoi.edu/main/topic/changing-shorelines-erosion WHOI Changing Shorelines & Erosion]
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=== Articles ===
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*[http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/nclimate1944.pdf Coastal habitats shield people and property from sea-level rise and storms], Nature Climate Change Letters 14 July 2013 (paid access), 7 pages. Plus [http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/extref/nclimate1944-s1.pdf supplementary information], 45 pages. Also, [http://www.naturalcapitalproject.org/news.html media coverage].
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=== News and other Press ===
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*[http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/08/19/coastal-areas-told-prepare-for-rising-seas/8PnIENBQski5W88fElLQ8O/story.html Sandy task force says spend now for future storms] Boston Globe, 20 August 2013.
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*[http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/07/22/130722fa_fact_seabrook The Beach Builders: Can the Jersey Shore be saved?] The New Yorker, 22 July 2013.
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*[http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/06/26/state-state-reports-president-obamas-plan-cut-carbon-pollution-and-prepare-consequen White House 2013 clean energy bill promotional materials] and [http://www.whitehouse.gov/share/climate-action-plan extended climate/energy infographic]. It speaks more about the prevention side of climate change than the adaptation side, but there are some interesting notes on adaptation, too. It's not a lot of detail in terms of being useful for policy advising, but it could be useful in our public education efforts. Note the state-specific links at the end. The Massachusetts report is only 2 pages.
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* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/02/maine-lobsters-climate-change_n_3535773.html Maine Lobsters Threatened By Climate Change, Says New Campaign ] Huffington Post (AP) 2 July 2013.
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* [http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2013/04/27/environmental-concerns-not-taste-should-govern-movement-chappaquiddick-home/DszV0AgbAbPdiB1YE0HSxO/story.html Chappaquiddick mansion: Man vs. sea vs. neighbors] Boston Globe 28 April 2013.
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* [http://www.wbur.org/2013/03/22/plum-island-beach-armoring Plum Island Homeowners Ignore State Regulations, Shore Up Homes] WBUR 22 March 2013.
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* [http://www.pacificlegal.org/PLF-client-Vicki-Luhrs-wins-the-right-to-save-her-home-from-erosion ''Luhrs v. Whatcom County''] (March 2011) Press release from the Pacific Legal Foundation regarding a 2011 Washington State legal case where an individual homeowner successfully fought for the legal ability to build a stone revetment to secure the eroding coastal bluff at property edge, against the wishes of the county permitting bodies. Legal argument based on Washington State Constitution and statute.
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== Historical Marshfield ==
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It seems that people have not always built their homes in the vulnerable coastal areas of Marshfield. It's a relatively recent thing, where "recent" is less than about 150 years. But, exactly when and why did this start? Understanding the answer to this question would help
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# decipher what the "natural" profile of Marshfield's coastal areas might look like without coastal protection structures and land development, and
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# bring some perspective in judging which adaptation strategies are "reasonable" in the big picture that extends beyond the limited scope of experience of today's residents.
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* [http://books.google.com/books?id=gohBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Memorials+of+Marshfield:+And+Guide+Book+to+Its+Localities+at+Green+Harbor+Marica+Abiah+Thomas%E2%80%BA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TJ-fUYXFHJiv4AO-qYHoAg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Memorials%20of%20Marshfield%3A%20And%20Guide%20Book%20to%20Its%20Localities%20at%20Green%20Harbor%20Marica%20Abiah%20Thomas%E2%80%BA&f=false Memorials of Marshfield: And Guide Book to Its Localities at Green Harbor] (free ebook) by Marcia Abiah Thomas, 1854, 108 pages.
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* [http://books.google.com/books?id=Xos-AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Lysander+Salmon+Richards%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7LL6UejMEIHC4APXn4HwDQ&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false History of Marshfield, Vol 1] (free ebook) by Lysander Salmon Richards, 1901, 242 pages. See especially the end of Chapter LV.
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* [http://books.google.com/books?id=P4RDuQAACAAJ&dq=Memorials%20of%20Marshfield%3A%20And%20Guide%20Book%20to%20Its%20Localities%20at%20Green%20Harbor%20Marica%20Abiah%20Thomas%E2%80%BA&source=gbs_similarbooks History of Marshfield, Vol 2] by Lysander Salmon Richards, 252 pages.
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* 1776 Boston and Vicinity, not very accurate (Harvard Geospatial Library)
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* 1781 Nautical Chart of Plymouth Bay (Harvard Geospatial Library)
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* 1838 Map of Marshfield, showing dwellings and roads (Harvard Geospatial Library)
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* 1857 Map of Plymouth County (Harvard Geospatial Library)
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* circa 1900 "historic 15-minute USGS topographic map of the Duxbury, Massachusetts quadrangle. The survey date (ground condition) of this map is 1885, the edition date is September, 1893 and this map was reprinted in 1931" (Harvard Geospatial Library) So, supposedly 1885, but it shows the river mouth north of Humarock, which dates it after 1898.
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=== Recreational and Residential Buildup ===
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* [http://www.thefairviewinn.com/history.html The Fairview Inn history page] claims that the building originally at the Fiarview site was one of six Brant Rock inns built in the 1860s and 1870s.
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=== The Portland Gale ===
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The "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Gale Portland Gale]" is the popular name of a major storm which brought much loss of life and property to coastal Massachusetts in late November, 1898. In Marshfield, it is most notable for having changed the mouth of the North and South Rivers, so that they meet and empty into the sea at the north end of the Humarock peninsula, rather than at the south end (now Rexhame Beach). The Portland Gale is the answer to the question that confuses many Marshfield and Scituate residents: why is Humarock part of Scituate when it is only connected to Marshfield. 
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* "Warnings Ignored!" book by ?, ?.
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* [http://www.hazegray.org/features/1898gale/ A summary and photo feature of the storm and its effect on ships] from "Haze Gray & Underway", a historical website about ships and navies.
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* [http://www.hazegray.org/features/1898gale/gale10.jpg Image of the shipwreck Mertis H. Perry] after the Portland Gale, near Brant Rock.
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== NFIP, FIRMs, FEMA, and all that ==
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=== News Coverage ===
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* [http://www.wickedlocal.com/marshfield/topstories/x606648111/FEMA-flood-maps-online-as-neighborhoods-approach-appeals?zc_p=0  FEMA flood maps online as neighborhoods approach appeals] Marshfield Mariner 31 July 2013.
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* [http://www.capeplymouthbusiness.com/blog/show/256 Flood insurance rates rising] Cape & Plymouth Business 30 July 2013.
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=== Maps and Documentation ===
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* [http://www.marshfieldcoastalcoalition.org/Marshfield_Citizens_Coastal_Coalition/Downloads.html MCC's pdf 2013 Draft FIRMs downloads]
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* [http://www.townofmarshfield.org/government-departments-planning-draftratemaps.htm 2013 Draft FIRMs from Town Marshfield], slightly different form above.
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* [http://crsresources.org Community Rating System Resources]. See also the [http://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/8768?id=2434 2013 CRS Coordinator's Manual].

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This page is for tracking interesting information and links that I am using to advance my knowledge of adaptation strategies to sea level rise and related climate change phenomena in coastal communities like Marshfield, Massachusetts.

A work in progress.

Agencies and Organizations

Government

Private


GIS Resources

Geographical Information System: data layers on maps.

Climate Change and Adaptation

Web and stuff

Articles

News and other Press

Historical Marshfield

It seems that people have not always built their homes in the vulnerable coastal areas of Marshfield. It's a relatively recent thing, where "recent" is less than about 150 years. But, exactly when and why did this start? Understanding the answer to this question would help

  1. decipher what the "natural" profile of Marshfield's coastal areas might look like without coastal protection structures and land development, and
  2. bring some perspective in judging which adaptation strategies are "reasonable" in the big picture that extends beyond the limited scope of experience of today's residents.
  • Memorials of Marshfield: And Guide Book to Its Localities at Green Harbor (free ebook) by Marcia Abiah Thomas, 1854, 108 pages.
  • History of Marshfield, Vol 1 (free ebook) by Lysander Salmon Richards, 1901, 242 pages. See especially the end of Chapter LV.
  • History of Marshfield, Vol 2 by Lysander Salmon Richards, 252 pages.
  • 1776 Boston and Vicinity, not very accurate (Harvard Geospatial Library)
  • 1781 Nautical Chart of Plymouth Bay (Harvard Geospatial Library)
  • 1838 Map of Marshfield, showing dwellings and roads (Harvard Geospatial Library)
  • 1857 Map of Plymouth County (Harvard Geospatial Library)
  • circa 1900 "historic 15-minute USGS topographic map of the Duxbury, Massachusetts quadrangle. The survey date (ground condition) of this map is 1885, the edition date is September, 1893 and this map was reprinted in 1931" (Harvard Geospatial Library) So, supposedly 1885, but it shows the river mouth north of Humarock, which dates it after 1898.

Recreational and Residential Buildup

  • The Fairview Inn history page claims that the building originally at the Fiarview site was one of six Brant Rock inns built in the 1860s and 1870s.

The Portland Gale

The "Portland Gale" is the popular name of a major storm which brought much loss of life and property to coastal Massachusetts in late November, 1898. In Marshfield, it is most notable for having changed the mouth of the North and South Rivers, so that they meet and empty into the sea at the north end of the Humarock peninsula, rather than at the south end (now Rexhame Beach). The Portland Gale is the answer to the question that confuses many Marshfield and Scituate residents: why is Humarock part of Scituate when it is only connected to Marshfield.

NFIP, FIRMs, FEMA, and all that

News Coverage

Maps and Documentation

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