Designing Living Shorelines for Great Bay

Aug 23, 2022 | Home Page Slideshow News, Stories

August 23, 2022 By: Lynn Vaccaro, Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve How can we protect our shorelines from erosion and rising seas while preserving the ecological benefits of a natural shoreline? That’s the question the Great Bay Living Shoreline project...

What makes a shoreline resilient? Creative strategies for Great Bay

Jul 12, 2022 | Home Page Slideshow News, Stories

July 12, 2022 By: Lynn Vaccaro, Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Flooding, erosion and other climate impacts are affecting NH’s coastal towns in different ways, and the strategies for increasing resilience will look different too. Despite these...

Results of the Seacoast Transportation Corridor Vulnerability Assessment

May 13, 2022 | Home Page Slideshow News, Stories

By: Rockingham Planning Commission Getting to the New Hampshire Seacoast is expected to get a lot more difficult in the future according to a team of planners and researchers from Rockingham Planning Commission (RPC), the New Hampshire Coastal Program (NHCP), and the...

request for flood smart seacoast technical assistance applications

Feb 23, 2022 | Stories

2022 REQUEST FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE APPLICATIONS – REVISED MARCH 22, 2022 APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS ONLINE APPLICATION FORM The New Hampshire (NH) Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) Coastal Program (NHCP), in partnership with the Rockingham Planning...

Innovative Approaches to Stormwater Management Improve Resiliency

Feb 7, 2022 | Home Page Slideshow News, Stories

By: Kyle Pimental (Strafford Regional Planning Commission) and Ben Sweeney (NHDES Coastal Program) As a result of a collaborative effort, the City of Dover has implemented several stormwater management strategies seeking to address impacts from climate change. In...

Parting words from outgoing CAW Co-Chair, Sherry Godlewski

Feb 7, 2022 | Stories

Bringing an end to your career is a process. I’ve spent time looking through old photos, meeting notes, workshop agendas and finding documents that I wrote when many of my colleagues were in elementary school, or even younger. It all seems so strange to follow the arc...