Project Description: The goals of the project are to 1) provide a climate change vulnerability assessment for George Washington Birthplace National Monument, to help managers prioritize adaptation actions by assessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity for key resources park-wide, integrating natural resources, cultural resources, and facility assets and 2) apply previous vulnerability assessment work to identify options to increase resilience and guide improved facility and transportation system investment decisions and building investment decisions, The results will help park managers and partners identify and choose adaptation actions for the priority vulnerable resources. The vulnerability assessment is intended to be used to justify actions and pursue funding to implement adaptation actions or to justify reducing investments in highly vulnerable resources that are not a top priority. It operationalizes a method developed for Colonial National Historical Park to combine natural resources, infrastructure and cultural resources within an integrated vulnerability assessment framework and moves previous vulnerability assessment work to the next phase of implementation.
The expected objectives and outcomes of the vulnerability assessment component of the project are 1) identify a time series of changes likely to occur across the park, 2) identify the major linkages across the Natural, Cultural and Facility Resources, 3) recognize the co-benefits across these three resource groups, 4) generate potential actions that can be taken to keep adaptation options open and 5) share results broadly through online map viewer. The objective of the facility application of vulnerability assessment component is to 1) provide tools and a process to plan for the resilience and adaptation of their facilities, including transportation, critical infrastructure, and building assets 2) inform wise investment decisions for public facilities and 3) share results broadly with scientific community and adaptation practitioners.
Lead Principal Investigator: Glenn Ricci, University of Rhode Island
Partner Institution: University of Rhode Island
Federal Agency: National Park Service
Federal Agency Technical Contact: Amanda Babson
Project Type: Research
Project Discipline: Natural Resources
Project Sub-Discipline(s): Global Change
Start Year: 2018
End Year: 2022
Initial Funding Amount: $106,327.00
Federal Grant Number: P18AC01352
Amendments
- Amendment Number: 01, Year: 2020, Amount: $38,347.00
Location: Northeast Region, George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Sustainable Operations Program
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