Sea Level Rise Webinar Series #5

Topics and Speakers: 

Planning for Sea Level Rise in Whatcom County

• Chris Elder, Senior Watershed Planner, Whatcom County

Planning for Sea Level Rise in the Town of Coupeville

• Joshua Engelbrecht, Community Planning Director, Town of Coupeville

Ecology is currently conducting rulemaking under the Shoreline Management Act. A major focus of this rulemaking is to establish a new requirement for cities and counties to address the impact of sea level rise and increased storm severity in their shoreline master programs.

As we begin to draft these new requirements, we will be considering:

• sea level rise science
• anticipated impacts
• available models and tools
• management issues
• examples of adaptation planning 

Background

We are organizing a webinar series to host scientists and practitioners to present on these topics. These webinars are open to the public – we invite you to join us at lunch time in February and March for these presentations.