Sea Level Rise Explorer

The Turner Station Conservation Teams together with the community, Mahan Rykiel, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, The Nature Conservancy have built a coalition of Partners and are working collaboratively to design, permit, and ultimately build a new Waterfront Park, the Fleming park project. Turner Station has been home to an amazing array of achievers. Military heroes, jazz greats, athletes, educators, a Congressmen, an astronaut and many more notables.Understanding the risks posed by sea level rise is an important step in bringing the community together to identify adaptation approaches that reflect their values and priorities for the future. At the center of the model you can see the Fleming Community Center, which serves the needs of Turner Station’s community.

The Nature Conservancy partnered with Virtual Planet Technologies to develop this virtual reality experience that would bring the projected extent and impacts of sea level rise to the park to life. The goal of the project was to use the technology to start a conversation with the community about the projected impacts of sea level rise and work together to create an adaptation pathway, identifying where and how nature-based solutions can reduce current and future risk and impacts.

https://turnerstation.org/
https://www.mahanrykiel.com/
https://www.nature.org/
https://www.cbf.org/blogs/save-the-bay/2020/04/communities-rise-to-the-climate-challenge.html