As seen on Maine Public Broadcasting Network! The award-winning five-part documentary, Building a Resilient Coast: Maine Confronts Climate Change.

Hear and see what your neighbors, town officials, and scientists have to say about sea-level rise, coastal flooding, and erosion; what it means to you; and what you can do about it.

Click here to view online or contact our office for a free copy.

This documentary video was produced by Oregon Sea Grant as part of a larger project titled

Climate Variability and Coastal Community Resilience: Testing a National Model of State-based Outreach

Maine Sea Grant, in partnership with Oregon Sea Grant, conducted a two-year NOAA-funded research project to assess the resilience of coastal communities in the two states. The project had several objectives:

• to explore how climate variability and coastal hazards may be affecting the Maine coast and how these relate to coastal development;
• to encourage and facilitate collaboration among and between decision-makers and coastal property owners to determine and implement appropriate responses to climate variability on short and longer timescales;
• to discover the barriers to taking action to prepare for or mitigate the effects of climate variability;

The ultimate goal of the project is to move behavior toward decisive action that results in coastal communities that are more resilient to climate variability at all scales. 

Partners include Maine Geological Survey, University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Climate Change Institute, Maine Coastal Program, and the Center for Research and Evaluation.

For a summary of the project, read the executive summary (Summer 2011; 2.5 MB) and final technical report (August 2010; 1.6 MB).

DVD Segments in High and Low Resolutions