Various Data – Climate Change and Migration
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C-CAP Land Cover Atlas
Source: NOAA
"This online data viewer provides user-friendly access to coastal land cover and land cover change information developed through NOAA’s Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP). The tool summarizes general change trends (such as forest losses or new development) and provides tables, maps, and reports to enhance communication and decision-making."
Census Data for Terrebonne Parish
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
"[Census] QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more."
Climate Change Opinion Maps
Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
These maps show how Americans’ climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, and policy support vary at the state, congressional district, metro area, and county levels.
Coastal County Snapshots
Source: NOAA
"This online tool provides managers and citizens with easy-to-understand charts and graphs that describe complex coastal data. Users select a county of interest and the website does the rest, creating a helpful educational tool for governing bodies and citizen groups. Current snapshot topics include flood exposure, wetland benefits, and ocean and Great Lakes jobs."
Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper
Source: NOAA
"This online visualization tool supports communities that are assessing their coastal hazard risks and vulnerabilities. The tool creates a collection of user-defined maps that show the people, places, and natural resources exposed to coastal flooding."
Coastal Projects Map
Source: Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
This map provides a spatial look at CPRA projects in Louisiana, sorted by project type. Users can access factsheets about each project by clicking on the icons.
For other CPRA maps, click here.
Coastal Resilience Mapping Portal
Source: The Nature Conservancy
"With its high incidence of storms and hurricanes and valuable ecological and economic resources, the Gulf region is a high-risk area with great potential to demonstrate natural risk reduction solutions. The Coastal Resilience approach and tools have been applied Gulf-wide and at specific sites, including those that help identify where to implement oyster reef restoration to meet social and ecological goals."
More information about this tool is available as a PDF or video. Information about this tool's use for specifically studying flood and sea level rise is available here.
Global Report on Internal Displacement
Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Center
"The Global Report on Internal Displacement presents the latest information on internal displacement worldwide caused by conflict, violence and disasters."
Grand Isle Sea Level (1870-2013)
Source: NASA
This graph utilizes sea level gauge records to provide data on sea level change from 1870-2013.
Grand Isle Sea Level (1947-2019)
Source: NOAA
"The plot shows the monthly mean sea level without the regular seasonal fluctuations due to coastal ocean temperatures, salinities, winds, atmospheric pressures, and ocean currents. The long-term linear trend is also shown, including its 95% confidence interval."
Historical Hurricane Tracks
Source: NOAA
This tool provides information about the strength and path of hurricanes from 1842 to the present.
Indigenous People's Resilence Actions
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior
This interactive map allows users to explore projects being undertaken by Indigenous people across the United States. Users can sort projects by stage and location and gather more information about the specifics of each project.
Land Change Maps
Source: Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
Land and land change maps for South Terrebonne under low, medium, and high environmental scenarios.
Louisiana Coastal Master Plan (2017)
Source: Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
"The 2017 Coastal Master Plan sets an ambitious path to respond to the loss of our coastal land and the threats from storm surge events. The master plan...is a list of projects that build or maintain land and reduce risk to our communities. Because the funding for all of those projects is not available now, the master plan identifies a long-term program of construction, operations and maintenance, and adaptive management that is guided by a robust and continuous planning process, to be implemented as funds become available..."
Louisiana Floodmaps Portal
Source: LSU AgCenter
The FloodMaps Portal "presents Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) and related products. It also shows ground elevations provided by the USGS."
Click here for more information about how to use the FloodMaps.
Potential Flooding Map (2011)
Source: US Army Corps of Engineers
Graphic showing the estimated flood depths for locations adjacent to the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers based on predictions from the US Army Corps of Engineers (Spring 2011).
Sea Level Rise in Mandalay Refuge
Source: USGS, NOAA, U.S. DOI, EPA, Sea Grant, USFW
This informational sheet explores different sea level rise scenarios for the Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge in Houma, LA.
Social Vulnerability Index
Source: CDC
"Social vulnerability refers to the resilience of communities when confronted by external stresses on human health, stresses such as natural or human-caused disasters, or disease outbreaks. CDC's Social Vulnerability Index uses 15 U.S. census variables at tract level to help local officials identify communities that may need support in preparing for hazards; or recovering from disaster."
Storm Events Database
Source: NOAA
This NOAA database catalogues storm event data from 1950 to 2020. Users can sort storm events by location, year, and event type.
Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Source: NOAA
"The graphs show monthly mean carbon dioxide measured at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii. The carbon dioxide data (red curve), measured as the mole fraction in dry air, on Mauna Loa constitute the longest record of direct measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere."