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The Alaska Ocean Observing System, Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative (Western AK LCC), and the USGS Alaska Climate Science Center jointly conducted a Coastal Hazards Workshop May 30-31, 2012. Participants included a broad array of subject matter experts and stakeholders involved in coastal issues from a variety of perspectives. Workshop participants reviewed the current state of the coast and the state of understanding of the coast from a systems perspective, discussed stakeholder information needs and developed the framework for a conceptual model focused on natural-human system impacts due to coastal erosion and inundation.
One of the major challenges in understanding changes in coastal processes in western Alaska is the lack of measured ocean data in the region. This project leverages existing human resources, and physical and computational infrastructure to collect and disseminate oceanographic observations in the Bering Sea. From instrument restoration, transport and deployment, through data streaming, recovery and dissemination, this project considers the end to end supports necessary to gather, promote, and serve oceanographic data along Alaska’s Western coast. Real‐time sea‐state conditions directly benefit emergency managers and local communities, particularly in dealing with small craft hazards and predicting storm surges...
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