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Aquidneck Island Land Trust outlines $2 million NOAA resilience grant and islandwide coordination plans
Summary
Paige Myatt of the Aquidneck Island Land Trust briefed Middletown Council on a four-year, $2 million NOAA Climate Resilience Regional Challenge grant to fund islandwide resilience planning, technical assistance, community engagement and long-term coordination across Newport, Middletown, Portsmouth and the Navy.
Paige Myatt, director of climate resilience at the Aquidneck Island Land Trust, updated the Town of Middletown Council on a new regional resilience effort funded by NOAA’s Climate Resilience Regional Challenge.
"I'm excited to give an update on our regional resilience efforts across Aquidneck Island," Myatt told the council, describing a four-year, $2 million capacity-building award that will be hosted by the land trust and delivered in close collaboration with Newport, Middletown, Portsmouth and the Naval Station. Myatt said the project was one of 19 selected nationally from more than 800 applicants and that the Aquidneck project is the only award in Rhode Island.
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