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Our Coast, Our Future Interactive Sea Level Map

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Description

Our Coast, Our Future (OCOF) is a collaborative, user-driven project focused on providing coastal California resource managers and land use planners locally relevant, online maps and tools to help understand, visualize, and anticipate vulnerabilities to sea level rise and storms.

Disciplinary Core Ideas

  • Though the magnitudes of human impacts are greater than they have ever been, so too are human abilities to model, predict, and manage current and future impacts.
  • Mapping the history of natural hazards in a region, combined with an understanding of related geologic forces can help forecast the locations and likelihoods of future events.

Crosscutting Concepts

  • Much of science deals with constructing explanations of how things change and how they remain stable.
  • Cause and effect relationships may be used to predict phenomena in natural or designed systems.
  • Models can be used to predict the behavior of a system, but these predictions have limited precision and reliability due to the assumptions and approximations inherent in models.
  • Stability might be disturbed either by sudden events or gradual changes that accumulate over time.

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