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Revision as of 13:34, 12 December 2013

This website is an annotated bibliography for tracking interesting research articles, news coverage, references, and online resources relevant to issues of climate change adaptation in the coastal community of Marshfield, Massahcusettes, USA. Much of it will likely be useful for other communities in a similar situation.

The information here has been gathered and edited by the members of the Town of Marshfield's Coastal Advisory Committee, which reports to the Town's Board of Selectmen. The site is hosted by committee member Dr. Sean P. Robinson, with thanks to the Helena Foundation Junior Physics Laboratory in the Department of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

This bibliography represents a partial response to those line items in the Committee's mission statement which pertain to educating the public on the complicated issues of climate change and adaptation. It also summarizes the Committee members' efforts to advance their own knowledge of adaptation strategies to sea level rise and related climate change phenomena in coastal communities like Marshfield.

This website is very much a work in progress. (Page started October 2013.)


Contents

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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