Marsh Conservation Planning: Suffolk focused, Feb 15, 2023
Channel: Warren Pinnacle Consulting, Inc.
Date: 2023-02-20

NEIWPCC, the Long Island Sound Study, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation held three webinars in mid February 2023.

These webinars introduced Phase 2 of the Marsh Interactive Fate Viewer, a web-GIS tool that combines simulations of Long Island Sound marsh habitat under sea-level rise, with local ownership maps and estimates of ecosystem services provided by each parcel. The goal of this project is to assist local Long Island Sound stakeholders in developing suitable marsh conservation plans that work towards increasing coastal resiliency.  At the end of each webinar, our project team explored partnerships with local conservation groups to understand what resources we can provide to assist in producing specific marsh-conservation plans for each region.

These webinars were approximately two hours and alternated between presentation, hands-on training with the viewer, and question and answer sessions.