Coastal Resilience Evaluation and Siting Tool (CREST)

This tool helps coastal decision makers make informed decisions about the siting of coastal restoration and resilience projects. 

The tool identifies areas of open space where projects may have the greatest potential to benefit both human community resilience and fish and wildlife. These areas, called Resilience Hubs, incorporate multiple indices, all of which are available in CREST. 

The web tool provides access to the Assessment datasets through an online, interactive environment. Users can

• View and explore key Assessment datasets within their own regions of interest
• Analyze potential project sites and quantify results from the Assessment models
• Search resilience hubs to identify potential locations for proposed project sites
• Provide advanced GIS users with the ability to download all of the final Assessment datasets for use in their own GIS platform