Working with local stakeholders, this project is developing a series of ' Alternative Futures ' landscape assessments for Gray's Harbor that combine current state-of-the-art predictions of possible climate changes impacts on this coastal community.
Study uses an interdisplinary approach, integrating engineering and economic models to find a more accurate estimate of total losses in a potential tsunmai inundation zone and the surrounding county.
Researchers developed a new metric, the Ocean Acidification Stress Index for Shellfish (OASIS), for understanding Pacific oyster larval responses to variable regimes of seawater carbonate chemistry.
This research explores how the nature of their connection to the sea leads to different perceptions of risk and comfort with uncertainty, and how these differences might be important to consider when one group has information another group needs.