Coastal Habitat Learning Series

Join the Pew Charitable Trusts, Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, and the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries for a discussion of how coastal habitats contribute to coastal protection and blue carbon storage, and the ways in which states are utilizing this information for climate and coastal management planning.

Lydia Olander and Katie Warnell of Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions will present their recently completed mapping work in six U.S. states (NC, VA, MD, DE, NJ, and NY) on how coastal habitats contribute to coastal protection and blue carbon, and how sea level rise will impact salt marshes and carbon storage over the next century. Chris Baillie, a postdoctoral researcher at East Carolina University, and Casey Knight, a coastal habitat biologist with the North Carolina Department of Marine Fisheries, will then speak about their experiences integrating Duke’s mapping work into updates to North Carolina’s Coastal Habitat Protection Plan.

Register here.