Future Landscape Adaptation and Coastal Change (FLACC) Active
USGS scientists working on the Future Landscape Adaptation and Coastal Change (FLACC) project bring together information on coastal environments, processes, and climate drivers to evaluate where and when future changes along our Nation’s coast may occur and what they may look like.
Our coastal landscapes are dynamic systems, changing and evolving naturally in response to waves and tides, storms events, sediment supplies, and sea-level rise. Future changes to our coasts, amplified by climate change, will be far-reaching and have significant environmental and socio-economic consequences. Understanding how coastal environments respond to future change through observational and modeling studies provides a foundation for making long-term science-based predictions, which, in turn, are needed to support effective coastal management planning.
Work within the Future Landscape Adaptation and Coastal Change (FLACC) project integrates our understanding of how individual hazards drive long-term changes with multidisciplinary research approaches and assessments. The research focuses on coastal areas requiring improved predictions, observations, modeling, understanding, and decision needs.
Landscape change projections developed by this project allow researchers to incorporate observations and uncertainties to explore how future coastal landscapes may transform. Landscape change predictions can inform key ‘where’ and ‘when’ questions regarding land loss from erosion and flooding, changes to and migration of coastal landforms and ecosystems, and impacts on coastal habitats and communities.
FLACC project products are designed to address user needs. Project staff collaborate with decision-makers and USGS science communicators to ensure the scientific information produced is accessible to a variety of user groups in a meaningful and useful form to address their decision needs.
Explore the links below to learn more about individual efforts within and connected to the FLACC project.
Powell Center Proposal
Coastal Landscape Response
Coastal Change Likelihood
Aerial Imaging and Mapping
Beach-dependent Shorebirds
National Shoreline Change
Coastal Resource Evaluation for Management Application (CREMA)
Characterizing and Predicting Beach Change
USGS scientists working on the Future Landscape Adaptation and Coastal Change (FLACC) project bring together information on coastal environments, processes, and climate drivers to evaluate where and when future changes along our Nation’s coast may occur and what they may look like.
Our coastal landscapes are dynamic systems, changing and evolving naturally in response to waves and tides, storms events, sediment supplies, and sea-level rise. Future changes to our coasts, amplified by climate change, will be far-reaching and have significant environmental and socio-economic consequences. Understanding how coastal environments respond to future change through observational and modeling studies provides a foundation for making long-term science-based predictions, which, in turn, are needed to support effective coastal management planning.
Work within the Future Landscape Adaptation and Coastal Change (FLACC) project integrates our understanding of how individual hazards drive long-term changes with multidisciplinary research approaches and assessments. The research focuses on coastal areas requiring improved predictions, observations, modeling, understanding, and decision needs.
Landscape change projections developed by this project allow researchers to incorporate observations and uncertainties to explore how future coastal landscapes may transform. Landscape change predictions can inform key ‘where’ and ‘when’ questions regarding land loss from erosion and flooding, changes to and migration of coastal landforms and ecosystems, and impacts on coastal habitats and communities.
FLACC project products are designed to address user needs. Project staff collaborate with decision-makers and USGS science communicators to ensure the scientific information produced is accessible to a variety of user groups in a meaningful and useful form to address their decision needs.
Explore the links below to learn more about individual efforts within and connected to the FLACC project.