2024 05 09 Healthy Coastline Project Lunch and Learn Jim Abraham, the Weather Man

Led by the Diocesan Environment Network, Anglican Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, the project's objective is to establish community monitoring of coastal ecosystems and climate change events, with the goal of facilitating and strengthening local leadership in parishes on the Eastern Shoreline, while gathering standardized information on coastal parameters related to climate-related threats.
The approach is based on the theory and techniques of citizen science, in which local communities equipped with basic training support the gathering and organizing of scientific data. In addition to engaging local groups as citizen scientists, the project includes implementing scientific techniques for monitoring coastal parameters such as beach profile, vegetation, and oceanic dynamics. The results of the coastal monitoring by local groups or teams will provide relevant information for decision-making at local and provincial levels while improving the safeguarding of ecosystem integrity and preparedness of local communities for extreme climate-related events (Hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, etc.).