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SAGE: Building Resilient Coastal Communities through Systems Approach to Geomorphic Engineering

SAGE is a community of practice that adapts coastal landscapes to address changing conditions, aiming to create and maintain healthy coastal economies, reduce risks from climate change, and foster collaboration among multiple sectors. SAGE builds partnerships, conducts research, plans and designs projects, and provides tools and best practices for coastal protection.

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SAGE: Building Resilient Coastal Communities through Systems Approach to Geomorphic Engineering

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  1. Systems Approach to Geomorphic Engineering • August, 2014 Charley Chesnutt Institute for Water Resources Developed in cooperation with and funded by SAGE, NOAA and USACE.

  2. We need resilient coasts In the United States, 19 out of 20 major cities are located on the coast. Coastal communities contribute 45% of U.S. GDP, including 51 million jobs. Coastal populations are experiencing the effects of a changing climate, including severe storms and sea-level rise. Coastal wetlands, which provide critical habitat and flood protection, are rapidly disappearing due to development.

  3. What is SAGE? SAGE adapts the coastal landscape to address a wide array of changing conditions. SAGE understands shoreline changes in the broad, regional context of natural systems. SAGE builds partnerships among multiple sectors to research, plan, design, and fund projects that increase the resilience of coastal communities.

  4. SAGE has specific goals Create and maintain healthy coastal economies, communities, and ecosystems. Reduce risks from changes in coastal storm intensity, sea level, and precipitation patterns. Utilize the full range of “green” nature-based and “grey” structural techniques for coastal protection. Become a source of sound scientific knowledge, tools, and best practices. Foster intergovernmental, multi-sector, and multi-disciplinary collaboration.

  5. SAGE is a community of practice A collaborative effort between Federal and State agencies, non-governmental organizations, academia, and private business & engineering firms.

  6. Private Investors Financing Academia Scientific research Planning and implementation Engineers Technical design States NGOs Federal Agencies Facilitating

  7. How is SAGE developing? SAGE is beginning to: Compile, assess, and strengthen body of research on combined green and grey engineering techniques. Build partnerships in pilot regions. Identify public and private financing mechanisms.

  8. SAGE contributes to science and engineering Compiling existing research and monitoring data. Assessing additional data needs. Encouraging use of existing decision support tools. Identifying additional decision support needs. Developing metrics to measure project success.

  9. Multiple Lines of Defense

  10. There are great benefits from natural solutions Habitat protection and restoration Flood risk reduction Coastal storm damage reduction Filtration for better water quality Typically less expensive than grey (hard) solutions.

  11. Natural solutions include: [Insert graphics and captions – suggestions of which techniques to highlight? Use examples from Kate Alcoba’s brochure?]

  12. SAGE builds regional partnerships San Francisco Bay Pilot Northeast Florida Pilot Barnegat Bay Pilot (tentative) Puget Sound Pilot (tentative)

  13. San Francisco Bay Pilot Partners: USACE San Francisco District, USACE Engineer Research Development Center, Bay Area Climate Change Consortium Objectives: Inventory existing climate adaptation plans and projects Identify which of these efforts are consistent with SAGE Continue stakeholder outreach

  14. Northeast Florida Pilot Potential partners: USACE Jacksonville District, Northeast Florida Regional Council, University of Central Florida Objectives: Assess vulnerability of St. Johns River Basin Host a local stakeholder meeting Compile database of USACE coastal projects in the region

  15. SAGE aims to connect projects with funding Remove/reduce reliance on federal dollars Create sustainable business model Identify alternative financing mechanisms Build public-private partnerships Generate investment from the private sector

  16. Benefits of SAGE involvement [Will be tailored to the audience of the presentation – private investors, state coastal programs, engineering firms, partner federal agencies, etc. For example: • Access to extremely broad and multi-disciplinary knowledge base • Connection to private funding sources]

  17. Your role in SAGE [Depending on the audience -- what are we asking this particular stakeholder group to contribute?]

  18. Questions? Institute for Water Resources U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Program Managers: Charles.B.Chesnutt@usace.army.mil Debbie.Larson-Salvatore@usace.army.mil

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