Tools | U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Tools are available to help you manage your climate-related risks and opportunities, and to help guide you in building resilience to extreme events. Browse the list below, or filter by topic and/or tool functionality in the boxes above. To expand your results, click the Clear Filters link.

A Rural Capacity Map

This tool helps to identify communities where investments in staffing and expertise are needed to support infrastructure and climate resilience projects.

Circular diagram showing past and present environmental conditions in Interior Alaska. Source: Community Partnerships for Self-Reliance program

Adapt Alaska

Decision makers and educators in Alaska can use these resources as a starting point in climate adaptation, mitigation, and monitoring. Find case studies, information on specific regions in Alaska, a planning guide for adaptation, and more.

Adaptation Workbook

Land managers, natural resource professionals, and motivated landowners can use this structured process to consider the effects of climate change on forests, urban forests, and agricultural properties.

Adapting Stormwater Management for Coastal Floods

Community members can explore how past and future flooding can affect their stormwater systems and generate a report to inform planning efforts.

Alaska and Northwestern Canada Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook

Each issue of this graphics-rich product describes weather and climate highlights from the previous quarter, and indicates the most likely temperature and precipitation conditions for the upcoming quarter.

Alaska Arctic Observatory and Knowledge Hub

Community-based observations of changes in the seasonal cycle in Alaska's Arctic.

Alaska Climate and Weather Highlights

Access information on historical or recent storms and other climate-related events in Alaska and surrounding waters.

Screen capture from the Coastal Change Viewer

Alaska Coastal Change Viewer

Alaskan residents and land managers can use this viewer to explore the extent and rate of coastal change.

Alaska Coastal Profile Tool

Explore how beach and coastal elevation profiles along Alaska's coastline have changed over time.

Example of an inundation map from the tool

Alaska Community Inundation Maps

Color-indexed elevation maps for flood-vulnerable coastal communities in western Alaska.

Glaciers, land, shoreline, and ocean in satellite view of Alaska

Alaska Ocean Observing System | An IOOS Regional Data Portal

This regional IOOS portal offers interactive maps and tools to help users find and use data of interest for Alaska and the Arctic.

Alaska Online Aquatic Temperature Site (AKOATS)

Researchers can access this Alaska-wide catalog of mapped stream and lake temperature monitoring locations that use a common set of attributes.

Alaska Shoreline Change Tool

Analyses of aerial photos and satellite imagery reveal how Alaska's shoreline has changed over time. Projecting observed rates of change into the future provides predictions of where the shoreline will be in coming decades.

Tracy Arm, Southeast Alaska mainland, from the Alaska ShoreZone

Alaska ShoreZone Coastal Mapping and Imagery

Access millions of aerial photos of the coast in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. This habitat mapping and classification system, paired with a huge database of aerial photos, enables responders to plan an oil spill response or resource managers to identify vulnerable habitat.

Alaska Weeds ID Mobile App

Residents and visitors to Alaska can use this mobile app to identify and report on exotic species on public lands.

Arctic Adaptation Exchange

Share or access information about climate adaptation across the Arctic region. Explore an interactive map by theme and browse circumpolar adaptation information resources

Arctic ERMA® (Environmental Response Management Application)

Emergency responders and environmental resource managers use this web-based GIS tool to help them deal with oil spills and other incidents that may harm the Arctic environment.

Atlas of Community-Based Monitoring and Traditional Knowledge in a Changing Arctic

Access information on community-based monitoring initiatives of environmental and social factors across the Arctic region.

Barrow Sea Ice Thickness and Sea Level Webcam and Radar

Access current and historical webcam images and diagrams characterizing coastal ice in Barrow, Alaska.

Aerial view of the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

Being Prepared for Climate Change: Checklists of Potential Climate Change Risks

This booklet contains a set of risk identification checklists to aid environmental professionals in identifying specific climate change vulnerabilities of their organization or place.

Bering Strait Response Teaching Tool

This webpage provides resources to help those in the Bering Strait understand the risk of oil spills and their impact on Arctic marine life.

Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters

View maps and statistics on weather and climate disasters since 1980 where overall costs reached or exceeded $1 billion.

Screenshot of current temperature conditions across the US

CDC Heat & Health Tracker

Extreme heat events have long threatened public health in the United States. The CDC Heat & Health Tracker provides local heat and health information so communities can better prepare for and respond to extreme heat events.

Climate Change Adaptation planning Manual for Coastal Alaskans and Marine-Dependent Communities

Planners in coastal Alaska can use this guide to help with local adaptation efforts.

Screen capture from the USGCRP Indicator Platform

Climate Change Indicator Platform

View and download charts and other visualizations of key climate change indicators from across the federal government.

air pollution bellowing out of tall industrial buildings.

Climate Effects on Health

Climate change, together with other natural and human-made health stressors, influences human health and disease in numerous ways.

Climate Explorer

Explore climate projections for any county in the United States. For the contiguous U.S., you can compare maps of past and projected conditions for coming decades or consult historical records to see when weather has veered outside of normal climate.

Climate Resilience in Alaskan Communities: Catalog of Federal Programs

Communities in Alaska that face challenges associated with coastal erosion, flooding, and other climate-related risks can use this catalog to find information, technical assistance programs, and potential funding resources.

Coastal Change Analyses for Western Alaska: Interactive Map

View analyses of coastal change made by analyzing Landsat images collected along Alaska's west coast in 1972 and 2013.

Coastal Change Hazards Portal

This interactive map offers access to coastal change science and data on extreme storms, shoreline change, and sea level rise.

Coastal Inundation Dashboard

This dashboard brings water level data—including real-time, forecasts, storm surge, and historic flooding information—from over 200 coastal stations to your desktop.

Coastal Restoration Toolkit

This web-based toolkit offers a wealth of tools and resources to help coastal residents address flooding, coastal erosion, water quality, invasive species, and wildlife habitat restoration.

Community-Based Climate Adaptation Toolkit

Marine managers can find resources to engage communities in their efforts to manage, protect, and restore coral reefs and reef fisheries around the world.

illustration of forest trees and mountains

Core Principles for Agency Engagement to Support Community Rights for Climate Adaptation

Successful climate adaptation and environmental justice grantmaking must start with real engagement with communities to honor their rights and priorities

Cryosphere Now

Access an array of graphic products that show the current or recent state of Earth's ice.

Department of Defense Regional Sea Level (DRSL) Database

Engineering firms can use this database to integrate future sea level change information for DoD facilities at coastal locations.

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