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== Climate Change and Adaptation == | == Climate Change and Adaptation == |
Revision as of 18:04, 1 November 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
- Town of Marshfield (Town Admin, Town Planner, Board of Selectmen)
- Coastal Advisory Committee
- Energy Committee
- Waterways Committee
- DPW
- Conservation Commission
- South Shore Coastal Hazards Adaptation Study
- Sea Level Rise Study Duxbury, Marshfield, Scituate, MA Presentation Slides (Kleinfelder) 16 May 2013 and the actual report (27 MB PDF file)
- Press release about the study presentation
- Towns tackle sea level rise Marshfield Mariner 23 May 2013
- State
- Federal
- ACE
- EPA
- FEMA
- NOAA
- NWS
- NASA-GISS
- FWS
- See the Coastal Barrier Resources Act web page: http://www.fws.gov/cbra/
Private
GIS Resources
Geographical Information System: data layers on maps.
- Marshfield Online GIS
- MassGIS, Massachusetts GIS services.
- 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. QunatumGIS is a free, open source alternative.
Climate Change and Adaptation
Web and stuff
- American Geophysical Union Position Statement on "Human Impacts on Climate"
- "The Discovery of Global Warming", a history by the American Physical Society. See also the AIP positon statement on climate change.
- University of Maine Climate Change Institute
- Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change IGERT Program, also http://a2c2igert.umaine.edu/
- A2C2 people
- Mo Correll's work on abrupt climate change in Atlantic tidal marshes.
- The Climate Reanalyzer Run your own maps and visualizations!
- Global Warming and Climate Change Myths
- 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.
- www.coastalengineering.org Coastal Engineering Resources link page
- WHOI Changing Shorelines & Erosion
Articles
- Coastal habitats shield people and property from sea-level rise and storms, Nature Climate Change Letters 14 July 2013 (paid access), 7 pages. Plus supplementary information, 45 pages. Also, media coverage.
News and other Press
- Sandy task force says spend now for future storms Boston Globe, 20 August 2013.
- The Beach Builders: Can the Jersey Shore be saved? The New Yorker, 22 July 2013.
- White House 2013 clean energy bill promotional materials and 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.
- Maine Lobsters Threatened By Climate Change, Says New Campaign Huffington Post (AP) 2 July 2013.
- Chappaquiddick mansion: Man vs. sea vs. neighbors Boston Globe 28 April 2013.
- Plum Island Homeowners Ignore State Regulations, Shore Up Homes WBUR 22 March 2013.
- 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.
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
- decipher what the "natural" profile of Marshfield's coastal areas might look like without coastal protection structures and land development, and
- 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.
- "Warnings Ignored!" book by ?, ?.
- A summary and photo feature of the storm and its effect on ships from "Haze Gray & Underway", a historical website about ships and navies.
- Image of the shipwreck Mertis H. Perry after the Portland Gale, near Brant Rock.
NFIP, FIRMs, FEMA, and all that
News Coverage
- FEMA flood maps online as neighborhoods approach appeals Marshfield Mariner 31 July 2013.
- Flood insurance rates rising Cape & Plymouth Business 30 July 2013.
Maps and Documentation
- MCC's pdf 2013 Draft FIRMs downloads
- 2013 Draft FIRMs from Town Marshfield, slightly different form above.
- Community Rating System Resources. See also the 2013 CRS Coordinator's Manual.