Mapping shoreline adaptation projects around the Bay to inform planning
There is a recognized challenge of tracking the SF Bay’s progress towards resilience because comprehensive information about shoreline adaptation projects in the region does not exist in an easily accessible, updateable, or sharable forum. This poses a challenge to coordinating adaptation towards a regional strategy, ensuring equitable outcomes for adaptation, and communicating the region’s need for resources.
The Shoreline Adaptation Project Map (SAPMap) aims to spatially track adaptation projects, communicate regional progress on shoreline resilience goals, and support a living network of community-based partners poised to lead adaptation planning, construction, and monitoring.
The SAPMap has made progress towards these goals over the last two years by coordinating and convening regional partners, recommending and implementing technical enhancements to EcoAtlas, researching and inputting adaptation project data, and formalizing data entry requirements through existing funding and permitting programs.
In the first real proof of concept, the data collected through the SAPMap was utilized in the MTC/BCDC co-lead SLR Adaptation Funding and Investment Framework in 2023. The SAPMap will be critical in the implementation of Actions called for in Bay Adapt: Regional Strategies For a Rising Bay Action 4.
The Shoreline Adaptation Project Map (SAPMap) aims to spatially track adaptation projects, communicate regional progress on shoreline resilience goals, and support a living network of community-based partners poised to lead adaptation planning, construction, and monitoring. Extensive progress has already been made in tracking information on restoration projects, many of which include adaptation and flood risk reduction goals, utilizing the platform EcoAtlas. The models and workflows in EcoAtlas that identify, catalog, and map this information serve as a template for how information about other adaptation efforts can be included and integrated with restoration tracking to develop a comprehensive picture of shoreline adaptation.
Extensive progress has already been made in tracking information on restoration projects, many of which include adaptation and flood risk reduction goals, utilizing the platform EcoAtlas. The models and workflows in EcoAtlas that identify, catalog, and map this information serve as a template for how information about other adaptation efforts can be included and integrated with restoration tracking to develop a comprehensive picture of shoreline adaptation.
The SAPMap project list can be accessed at https://www.ecoatlas.org/groups/303. Spatial data can be exported from EcoAtlas Map Habitats Projects tool by specifying the “San Francisco Bay Adaptation” group. Finally, technical users can access the EcoAtlas API at https://www.ecoatlas.org/developers/.
In the first real proof of concept, the data collected through the SAPMap was utilized in the MTC/BCDC co-lead SLR Adaptation Funding and Investment Framework in 2023.
Special thanks to the San Francisco Estuary Institute, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Bay Area Regional Collaborative, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Joint Venture, San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority, California Coastal Conservancy, CalTrans, Coastal Hazards Adaptation Resiliency Group, San Francisco Estuary Partnership, Association of Bay Area Governments.
2021
2022
2022
2023
2024
Ongoing
Sign up for updates on the Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan
Rising Together was a dynamic and immersive sea level rise summit that engaged the public in inspiring panels, keynotes, tours, activities, and workshops designed to forge partnerships and drive action.
People Across the Bay Area, there is a growing movement to elevate the voices of communities most vulnerable to sea level rise. Recent years have seen a surge in community-based
Progress Lastly, one of the key components of ensuring adaptation is successful is being able to track progress and learn from what our progress—or lack of progress—is telling us about
Projects Even while adaptation planning gets off the ground, projects are not only being planned, but in various stages of design, funding, testing, construction, and monitoring. Measure AA, which passed
Plans Building on the mandates of SB 379 (2015) and SB 272 (2023), a majority of cities and counties have already started to plan for sea level rise adaptation. While
Information Many new tools and resources have been developed in the past few years that offer tangible tools that assist with adaptation plans and projects by providing better, more focused
