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Experts urge $400,000 to sustain URI coastal forecasting and mapping tools used by Rhode Island responders
Summary
Researchers and emergency managers told the House Finance Committee the state should fund CHAMP, Storm Tools and MyCoast after federal support ended; the committee held the resolution for further study.
University researchers, municipal emergency managers and state partners urged the House Finance Committee to appropriate $400,000 to the Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) to maintain three coastal hazard decision-support tools: CHAMP (Coastal Hazards Analysis, Modeling and Prediction), Storm Tools, and MyCoast.
Dr. Austin Becker, professor and chair of URI’s Department of Marine Affairs, described the trio as “an unparalleled suite of tools” that provides high-resolution storm forecasts, planning maps and crowd-sourced evidence of flooding. He said the tools are widely used by state agencies, municipalities and emergency managers and warned that recent federal funding reductions — including notice that the…
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