Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research (CSCOR)

North Carolina Sea Level Rise

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North Carolina Sea Level Rise

Overview

Two aerial photos from Cape Hatteras: top is from 1998, bottom shows the same area after Hurricane Isabel, September 25, 2003

This website is designed to inform state and local decision makers as well as the general public in North Carolina about the local and regional effects of current and future sea level rise and as a place of information exchange More

Partners

• UNC- Institute Of Marine Sciences - Modeling habitat-specific impacts of sea-level rise
• East Carolina University - Studying the Neuse River Estuary
• Vanderbilt/USC - The goal of this project is to understand and predict ecological and morphological responses to sea-level rise.
• NOAA/ Coast Survey Development Lab - A 2D hydrodynamic model is being used to simulate tidal response

Related Content

• CSCOR's Climate Change page
• NCCOS' Climate Change page.