By Rebecca A. French, Ph.D., CIRCA Director of Community Engagement On October 19, 2017, CIRCA released an Executive Summary of its locally updated sea-level rise scenarios and recommendations on how Connecticut should adapt to the mean sea level changes projected in a 2012 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report (Parris et al, CPO-1 Report, 2012): […]
Author: Rebecca French
A Resilient Gingerbread House
Every year UConn Avery Point hosts a competition to make a gingerbread house. This year CIRCA entered and built a resilient coastal home or as resilient as it could be when it was made out of candy and cookies. How to make a resilient gingerbread house: Home Elevation The lowest occupied floor of our gingerbread […]
9:30-11am on October 19 Public Meeting on CIRCA Updated Projections of Sea Level Rise for the State of Connecticut
Please note that the time changed for this event from an earlier post due to the rescheduled meeting of the Governor’s Council on Climate Change. 9:30-11 am is the new time. Apologies for any inconvenience that this may cause. When: Thursday, October 19, 2017 9:30-11 am Where: Remote Attendance: Register for Webinar In […]
Join CIRCA for Expert Panel on Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and Climate Science on September 21
HURRICANE HARVEY and HURRICANE IRMA: Climate Science, Recovery & Resilience Expert panel and discussion sponsored by the Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation Thursday, September 21 12-1 PM UConn Avery Point Campus Marine Sciences Building Room 103 OR Remote attendance: Dial 415-655-0002 Access Code: 649 191 751 Listen toll free via computer here Tweet us […]
A Workshop on Beneficial Use of Dredged Materials for Resilient Tidal Marsh Restoration and Creation
Event Timing: Thursday, September 28, 2017 Registration at 10:30 AM Program runs 11:00 AM to 3:50 PM Location: Maritime Aquarium 10 North Water Street Norwalk, CT 06854 Workshop Registration is Closed 9/26/17 Workshop Agenda Full Workshop Program Workshop Presentations: Presentations are provided below where speakers used a PowerPoint presentation. Click on the link to download […]
CIRCA Grant to City of Hartford Launches Sustainability Office and City’s First Climate Action Plan
By Taylor Mayes, UConn ’18, CIRCA Summer 2017 Undergraduate Intern “The hundreds of people who have provided input into this Plan should have our sincere thanks. In particular, I wanted to recognize and thank the volunteer members of the Climate Stewardship Council and the staff of Hartford’s Office of Sustainability, created in my office in […]
CIRCA Receives 2017 NOAA Coastal Resilience Grant to Evaluate Living Shorelines to Reduce Flood Risk
The Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation (CIRCA) at the University of Connecticut will be awarded funds to monitor, evaluate and provide recommendations for the design and placement of living shorelines (a.k.a. nature-based infrastructure). The funds for CIRCA are part of a $1 million 2017 NOAA Coastal Resilience Grant to the Northeast Regional Ocean […]
CIRCA Partnerships in Engagement and Education: The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk and Fairfield Museum Rising Tides Exhibit
By Hannah Spicer, CIRCA Undergraduate Program Assistant Intern, 2016-2017 Academic Year The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk was a recent recipient of a $485,000 grant awarded by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration in the United States Department of Commerce. They were one of five to receive this 2016 Environmental Literacy Grant out of 170 applications emphasizing […]
CIRCA Awards Matching Funds Grant to Purchase Reef Balls to Build Connecticut’s Largest Living Shoreline
The Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation (CIRCA) provided a $91,000 grant to Professor Jennifer Mattei at Sacred Heart University to fund the purchase of most of the 273 reef balls needed to protect an additional 750 feet of shoreline at Stratford Point in Stratford, CT. The CIRCA grant represents a 25% match for […]
Branford Connecticut’s Coastal Resilience Plan
Author – Rafeed Hussain, CIRCA Summer 2016 Undergraduate Student Intern. Rafeed is an environmental science major at the University of Connecticut. He will graduate in fall 2016. He is from Niantic, Connecticut. Branford Connecticut’s Coastal Resilience Plan The world is changing. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts that by the turn of the century […]