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Arrowsic Flood Tides project

The Arrowsic Conservation Commission has installed several 4×4 wooden posts along roadsides where there is a history of flooding. These posts serve as platforms for photographing high water events and help ensure photos are taken from the same height, angle and place each time. The data collected will help the town better understand how often…

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Broward’s High Tides

The project collects images from community members and groups during flooding events and catalogs the circumstances of the flood: high tides/coastal flooding, rainfall/storms/hurricanes, or both. King Tide Kits are available for community groups to borrow to help track and report tidal flooding.

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California King Tides

The California King Tides Project helps us visualize future sea level by observing the highest tides of today. You can help by taking and sharing photos of the shoreline during King Tides to create a record of changes to our coast and estuaries.

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Catch the Tide, Miami

This project uses a community driven approach to address some of the challenges associated with coastal flooding. In addition to tidal floods, we are also interested in all kinds of naturally occurred flooding including inland floods (hence the #FloodMiami social media presence).

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Coastal Flooding: Storms and Sea Level Rise

The goals of the project are: to collect data to reveal the weather and water level conditions that are associated with localized coastal flooding, collect public opinion on concern and impacts of flooding; and raise awareness of local flooding impacts. Active projects in Belfast, Portand, So. Portland and Vinal Haven (ME), however, the project encourages…

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Coastal Flooding: Storms and Sea Level Rise

The goals of the project are: to collect data to reveal the weather and water level conditions that are associated with localized coastal flooding, collect public opinion on concern and impacts of flooding; and raise awareness of local flooding impacts. Active projects in Belfast, Portand, So. Portland and Vinal Haven (ME), however, the project encourages…

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Coastal Flooding: Storms and Sea Level Rise

The goals of the project are: to collect data to reveal the weather and water level conditions that are associated with localized coastal flooding, collect public opinion on concern and impacts of flooding; and raise awareness of local flooding impacts. Active projects in Belfast, Portand, So. Portland and Vinal Haven (ME), however, the project encourages…

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Coastal Flooding: Storms and Sea Level Rise

The goals of the project are: to collect data to reveal the weather and water level conditions that are associated with localized coastal flooding, collect public opinion on concern and impacts of flooding; and raise awareness of local flooding impacts. Active projects in Belfast, Portand, So. Portland and Vinal Haven (ME), however, the project encourages…

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FEMA High Water Mark Initative

The purpose of the project is to document high water marks to show previous flooding levels. It is an educational tool that allows people to take photos of high water levels and post them on social media with a hashtag. The program was created by FEMA. Read more about the program at https://www.fema.gov/flood-maps/products-tools/high-water-mark-initiative. Thirty-seven communities…

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Flood Watch – NYC

The Community Flood Watch project is a growing network of residents and community groups that report and share resources related to flooding in their communities. Residents submit photographs and reports that document flood event timing, depth, location, and associated impacts. Researchers can use these reports to improve flooding forecasts and alerts.

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Gulf of Maine King Tides

The Gulf of Maine King Tides Project helps communities in the Northeastern US and Atlantic Canada anticipate impacts from rising sea levels. Join in this international effort to document—via cameras and smart phones—extreme high tides, which will become average water levels in coming years. King Tides images help scientists and planners assess future flood risks…

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Harpswell King Tide Initiative

The Harpswell King Tide project is a citizen science initiative to collect photographic data showing the impact of rising seas on roads, bridges, property, and ecosystems on the highest tides in Harpswell, ME. The goal is to record the impact of the higher tides and storm surge over time.

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Hawaii and Pacific Islands King Tides Citizen Science Project

Community scientists add the photos to this free, publicly accessible and crowd-sourced dataset by photographing King Tides at places important to you throughout Hawai‘i and Oceania. Photos, observations, date, time, and location can be submitted through the Hawaiʻi and Pacific Islands King Tides Project web platform, accessible on a smartphone or desktop computer.

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High Tide – R.I. MyCoast

The purpose of the project is to visualize the impact of coastal hazards and to enhance awareness among decision-makers and stakeholders by collecting and analyzing pictures and data relating to coastal events

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High Tide Flooding

High Tide Flooding, also known as nuisance flooding or sunny day flooding and is coastal flooding that occurs at high tide and interrupts day to day activities leading to a public inconvenience such as road closures, and overwhelmed storm drains. Community members upload their high tide flooding images to the Maryland MyCoast portal. Images are…

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High Water Mark

Project worked to relocate and determine the status and validate the accuracy of the existing HWMs from the Blizzard of 1978. The main initiative focused on the re-survey and/or re-establish locations.

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Hudson River Estuary Chronolog

Halfway between the Adirondack Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean, this freshwater tidal shoreline has great biodiversity of fish, birds, and plants. With this citizen science project, we invite visitors to use the Chronolog post to capture images of  tide changes, ice advances or retreats, passing ship traffic, and the seasonal invasion of water chestnuts (Trapa…

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King Tides – Massachusetts

The Massachusetts king tides initiative documents the effect that extreme tide events have on the state’s beaches, coastal waterways, private property, and public infrastructure.

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King Tides – South Carolina

The goal of the SC King Tides Initiative is to document the effect extreme tide events have on our state’s beaches, coastal waterways, private property and public infrastructure.

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King Tides – Washington

Photos submitted by the public through this site are used to characterize beach change and the impact of nearshore hazards in order to enhance awareness among decision-makers and stakeholders.

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Lake Superior High Water Spotter

This project helps document shoreline impacts from water levels on Lake Superior using photos submitted by the public from around Lake Superior to capture shoreline conditions and establish a visual record.

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New Jersey High Water

New Jersey MyCoast portal is used to collect and analyze photos of coastal events and places. Photos are linked to data about weather and tides to create reports that help government agencies, business owners, and residents to understand coastal change and make informed decisions

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North Carolina King Tides

The project documents extreme high tides using photos to visualize what sea level rise will look like; create record and track changes, understand impacts to local resources. For many living in coastal North Carolina, flooding is a normal part of life. The coast is very flat, and tides, heavy rain events, and even wind play…

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Oregon King Tides Project

Volunteers for the Oregon King Tides Project photograph the year’s highest tides, known as king tides, to demonstrate current coastal flooding vulnerabilities and to anticipate what will become ordinary tide levels with sea level rise. In fall and winter, CoastWatch and the Oregon Coastal Management Program provide outreach and training.

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Rising Tides Photo Contest

Each year, CAW invites citizens to photograph extreme high tides during its annual photo contest in order to raise awareness of New Hampshire’s rising tides. Photographing high tide flooding gives us a glimpse of what daily water levels could be like in the future.

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SeaRise

Public contributes photos and data to inform a coordinated strategy to ensure communities are resilient to severe weather events, storm surge, and changing ocean conditions. Our collective efforts will aid in wildlife conservation and habitat protection. Photos and data on flooding inform a coordinated strategy to ensure South Carolina’s communities are resilient to severe weather…

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Sensing Storm Surge in 3 Maine Estuaries

Individuals maintain a water level logger is moored at a waterfront field site. Community members visit the sites monthly to download the data, which are then uploaded to the project website.  The goals is to observe, document, and map storm surge events in Bass Harbor, the Penobscot River, Southwest Harbor and the Bagaduce River.

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Storm Surge Washington

Information collected through this site is used to characterize beach change and the impact of nearshore hazards in order to enhance awareness among decision-makers and stakeholders.

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Storm Witness

South Carolina Storm Witness facilitates communication and beachfront damage assessment information among coastal municipalities and state coastal resource managers. Damage assessment information collected through the system enables DHEC to efficiently analyze post-storm beach conditions and expedite recovery activities, including permitting and other regulatory decisions.

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Urban Tides Initiative

The Urban Tides Program invites individuals to take photos of the Southern California coast during extreme tide events to document the changing shoreline and any impacts on beaches or nearby communities. Extreme tides, particularly king tides, can help us identify current flooding hotspots and visualize what future sea level rise will look like for our…

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Wetlands Watch

Wetlands Watch works with state and federal policy advocacy and grass roots education and activism to influence local government land use and regulatory decisions.  To monitor flooding in the wetlands, the group created and uses a phone app that collects crowdsourced information about flooding and king tides. The app is available for anyone to use,…

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