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by Shawna Ganley<\/p>\n

On February 11th<\/sup> EPA announced that it has awarded almost $725,000 to study wetlands development to protect shorelines in New York.\u00a0 Most interesting to climate change adaptation, the funding aims to \u201cevaluate the potential for salt marshes <\/i>to move inland <\/i>due to rising sea levels,\u201d in addition to identifying which marshes and wetland areas are most susceptible to damage from sea level rise.\u00a0 The grants, through the agency\u2019s Wetland Program, allocate $500,000 to the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse to research and develop a field manual of wetlands in the state overall, as well as $223,000 to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation to assess wetlands in the coastal regions of New York City.\u00a0 The state and city will also contribute funds to these projects.<\/p>\n

In December, EPA released its \u201cNational Water Program 2012 Strategy: Response to Climate Change\u201d report, which explains that wetlands are important \u201cnatural lines of defense\u201d for coastal communities.\u00a0 They not only create buffers to help insulate coastal communities from storm surges, but also provide critical habitat for fisheries, filter out pollutants for safe drinking water, and absorb or \u201csequester\u201d carbon.\u00a0 Climate change and sea level rise, however, threaten delicate wetlands.\u00a0 As a result, the EPA, FEMA, NOAA, and other federal agencies are now working together to foster wetlands.\u00a0 In the wake of Hurricane Sandy these efforts are seen as a way to reduce erosion and damage from increasingly large storm surges to coastal properties, which in New York alone is valued at $2.3 trillion.\u00a0 (EPA Dec 2102; USGCRP, 2009).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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