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Climate Hazard and Mitigation Planning (CHaMP) Tool

Krista Romita Grocholski, Arthur T. DeGaetano, Benjamin Eck, Debra Knopman, Kirstin Dow, Lena Easton-Calabria, Amanda Farris, Jory Fleming, Omar Gates, Jenna Jorns, et al.

The Climate Hazard and Mitigation Planning (CHaMP) online tool is an interactive website designed to: (1) communicate potential vulnerabilities to the public and authorities responsible for allocating resources for hazard mitigation activities; and (2) help local hazard mitigation, infrastructure, and land use planners integrate climate information into their hazard mitigation and other planning efforts. This tool provides users with contextual information and guidance to support Version 1.0 of CHaMP which covers the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Washington D.C., Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

CHaMP was codeveloped through a partnership between the Urban Sustainability Directors’ Network (USDN) and community partners of three NOAA-funded Climate Adaptation Partnership (CAP) teams, formerly Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) teams (CISA, GLISA, and MARISA), and the Northeast Regional Climate Center.

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For questions or feedback about the tool, contact:

Krista Romita Grocholski

kristarg@rand.org
Physical Scientist
RAND Corporation

MARISA is led by the non-profit RAND Corporation, in partnership with researchers in Penn State University’s Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, and Johns Hopkins University, along with support from researchers in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University, and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.