The table below contains resources on topics relevant to coastal resilience. Search for a resource by name, general topic (e.g., flood risk, storms, climate adaptation), or intended audience (public stakeholder, researchers, and practitioners).
| Resource link | Topic | Description | Spatial extent | Temporal extent | Target audience |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carteret County Protect the Beach Maps | Landscape change, Flood hazard | Hydrographic and topographic survey datasets in Carteret County. | County | Annual, Historical | Public Stakeholder, Researcher, Practitioner |
| North Carolina Flood Risk Information System (FRIS) | Flood hazard | Digitally accessible flood hazard data, models, maps, risk assessments and reports. | Property level, State | Annual | Public Stakeholder |
| North Carolina Flood Inundation Mapping and Alert Network (FIMAN) | Flood hazard | Rain and stage gauge data, flood inundation maps, flooding impacts and alerts to support risk-based decisions regarding flooding. | State | Real-time | Public Stakeholder, Researcher, Practitioner |
| COASTLINES Model | Storms, Emergency management | COASTLINES is a real-time (36-hour) forecast model of waves, currents, and water levels. Field sites in coastal North Carolina, USA for the DUring Nearshore Event eXperiment (DUNEX). | Regional | Real-time | Researcher, Practitioner |
| UNC-W Coastal Ocean Research and Monitoring Program (CORMP) | Storms, Coastal and oceans data | A regional ocean observing network that provides oceanographic and weather observations. | Regional | Real-time | Researcher, Practitioner |
| Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA) Data Portal | Storms, Coastal and oceans data | Search and download real-time & historical oceanographic data; access regional & sub-regional models, including coastal circulation, water quality and fisheries habitat models. | Regional | Real-time, Historical | Public Stakeholder, Researcher, Practitioner |
| Flood Factor | Flood hazard | A tool that helps Americans assess their property's current and future risk of flooding due to a changing environment. Created by the nonprofit First Street Foundation. | Property level, National | Annual | Public Stakeholder |
| U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit | Climate adaptation | The catalog of more than 200 digital tools can help you and your community take steps to build resilience. | National | NA | Public Stakeholder, Practitioner, Researcher |
| U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Coastal Change Hazards Portal | Coastal management, Landscape change, Flood hazard, Storms | Data products of coastal change hazards including extreme storms, shoreline change, and sea-level rise. | National | Real-time, Historical | Public Stakeholder, Researcher, Practitioner |
| Coastal Inundation Dashboard | Flood hazard | Real-time and historical coastal flooding information at water level stations operated by the National Ocean Service (NOS) Center for Operational Oceanographic Products & Services (CO-OPS). | National | Real-time | Researcher, Practitioner |
| NOAA: Data Access Viewer | Landscape change | Allows a user to search for and download elevation (lidar), imagery, and land cover data for the coastal U.S. and its territories. | National | Annual | Public Stakeholder, Practitioner |
| Coastal Observer | Storms, Flood hazard | An app that encourages citizens to become active in monitoring weather and water locally. | National | Near real-time | Public Stakeholder, Researcher, Practitioner |
| Library for Climate Change Adaptation | Climate adaptation | A resource center that focuses on helping communities adapt to changes primarily reported in the U.S. National Climate Assessment (2014). | National | NA | Public Stakeholder, Researcher, Practitioner |
| Coastal Restoration Toolkit | Water Quality, Flood hazard, Wildlife, Coastal Erosion | A toolkit developed by Restore America’s Estuaries to provide high‐level, introductory educational information for community members on how to develop a coastal restoration project from concept to proposal. | National | NA | Public Stakeholder, Practitioner |
| Global Warming's Six Americas | Climate adaptation | A framework presented by Yale University for climate change communication. | National | Annual | Public Stakeholder, Researcher |
| Coastal Emergency Risks Assessment (CERA) | Storms, Flood hazard, Emergency management | Storm surge, wave, and compound flood guidance for emergency management and real-time decisions. | Global | Real-time | Public Stakeholder, Researcher, Practitioner |
| USGS Flood Event Viewer | Flood hazard | The USGS Flood Event Viewer (FEV) is the public data discovery component of the Short-Term Network (STN) database. | National | Real-time | Public Stakeholder, Researcher, Practitioner |
| Fecal Indicator Bacteria- Swim Advisories NC Division of Environmental Water Quality | Water quality, Coastal and oceans data | Their mission is to protect the public health by monitoring the quality of N.C.'s coastal recreational waters and notifying the public when bacteriological standards for safe bodily contact are exceeded. | State | Monthly | Public stakeholder, Practitioner |
| NC OneMap | Policy, Emergency management, Coastal and oceans data, Statewide Parcel data | Geographic Data Serving a Statewide Community - North Carolina | Property level, City, County, State | Historical | Public stakeholder, Researcher, Practitioner |
| Southeast Coastal Resilience Organization Database | Policy, Coastal management, Climate adaptation, Networking | Constantly-updating list of organizations involved in research, advocacy, stewardship, education, and funding related to coastal resilience in the southeastern U.S. | Regional | NA | Public stakeholder, Researcher, Practitioner |
| Climate Central Surging Seas | Flood hazard, Coastal and oceans data | A series of maps and tools with coastal risk data | Global | NA | Public stakeholder, Researcher, Practitioner |
| NC Algal Bloom and Fish Kill Database | Coastal and oceans data | Enables visualization and reporting of algal blooms and fish kills statewide | Property level | Real-time | College, Public stakeholder, Researcher, Practitioner |
| US Commercial Fisheries Statistics | Coastal and oceans data, fisheries and seafood | NOAA database of commercial fisheries landings. Can be broken out by species, region, state, year, month, and in some cases by gear. | State, Regional, National | Annual, Monthly | Researcher, Practitioner |
| Dare County Property Tax Records | Property values | Searchable database to parcel-level property value assessments. Linked to GIS-based parcel maps. | Property level, City, County | Real-time | Public stakeholder, Researcher, Practitioner |
| Recreational Fisheries Data | Wildlife, fisheries and seafood | NOAA recreational fisheries statistics | State, Regional, National | Annual, Monthly | Public stakeholder, Researcher, Practitioner |
