Presentation at Massachusetts Sustainable Communities and Campuses Conference on March 17, 2017

1. Seeking Relief from Sea Level Rise:
Student Mapping and Leadership Initiative
Environmental Science Class
Ipswich High School
Supported by Liz Duff, Mass Audubon
Funded by NE BioLabs

2. Projec'ons for Boston: 2 meters by 2100
http://www.cityofboston.gov/climate/sealevelriseboston.asp

3. Methods
Reviewed FEMA maps
Used Google Earth and climatecentral.org
Visited vulnerable sites and marked
elevation levels for where high tide
will hit with a one and two meter rise

4. Environmental Concerns

5. Economic Concerns

6. Social Concerns
Jeffrey’s Neck Road

7. Infrastructure Concerns

8. Sugges'ons
Review the safety of roads and bridges
Evacuation routes and gathering sites
● Create a volunteer group
○ to help with evacuations
○ special license plates
Raise roads and railroads

9. Sugges'ons
Keep the marshes healthy
Seawalls
Drainage ditches along roads
Community leadership in
Promoting car pooling
Eat/buy local
incentives for renewable energy

10. Next steps
Meet with the Ipswich’s Emergency Management Director
Poster session at a “Climate Cafe” for the public
(climatecafe.net)
Share our findings with the Great Marsh Resiliency Task
Force

11. Contact Us
Ipswich High School Environmental Class
Lori LaFrance
llafrance@ipsk12.net