Process Overview
Working with local stakeholders, we are 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, biophysically-based models of flooding, erosion, and similar
coastal processes, projections of human population growth and development associated with future growth,
stakeholder-developed management policies guiding development pattern, zoning and response to natural
hazards to better understand the possibilities and consequences of alternative managment strategies on
a variety of community impacts, now and into the future.
Timeline and Materials
- November 17, 2015 - Project Lead Dr. Peter Ruggiero gave a presentation at the Grays Harbor County
Marine Resources Committee forum on Coastal Erosion, Flooding, and Sea Level Rise Science. A link to
the presentation is available here
- February 8, 2016 - We had our first stakeholder meeting in Gray's Harbor. Presentations
from this meeting are available on our Presentations page.