A discussion on the risks New York City faces in a changing climate, and potential community-driven solutions

NEW YORK, NY, December 3, 2019 - As part of his final project for his science communication strategy, “Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change: Communicating the Impacts on New York City and the Courses of Action,” Aidan Mahoney talked with Helen Cheng, New York Sea Grant's coastal resilience specialist in a partnership with the Science and Resilience Institute.

During the podcast, Cheng talked about some of her work with New York City’s coastal communities and shared her perspective on the issues of science communication, climate change, and coastal resiliency.

Cheng's talk with Mahoney, which can be streamed below, begins at about 3 minutes and 52 seconds into the 12 plus minute podcast.

For more on Mahoney's project, which includes a comprehensive report and video, visit www.aidandenismahoney.com/cuscistory/finalproject.



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More Info: New York Sea Grant and SRIatJB

The Science and Resilience Institute @ Jamaica Bay (SRIJB) is a research center focused on enhancing environmental, social, and economic resilience in communities of Jamaica Bay funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the City of New York.

New York Sea Grant (NYSG), a cooperative program of Cornell University and the State University of New York (SUNY), is one of 34 university-based programs under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Sea Grant College Program.

Since 1971, NYSG has represented a statewide network of integrated research, education and extension services promoting coastal community economic vitality, environmental sustainability and citizen awareness and understanding about the State’s marine and Great Lakes resources.

Through NYSG’s efforts, the combined talents of university scientists and extension specialists help develop and transfer science-based information to many coastal user groups—businesses and industries, federal, state and local government decision-makers and agency managers, educators, the media and the interested public.

The program maintains Great Lakes offices at Cornell University, SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Oswego and the Wayne County Cooperative Extension office in Newark. In the State's marine waters, NYSG has offices at Stony Brook University in Long Island, Brooklyn College and Cornell Cooperative Extension in NYC and Kingston in the Hudson Valley.

For updates on Sea Grant activities: www.nyseagrant.org has RSS, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube links. NYSG offers a free e-list sign up via www.nyseagrant.org/nycoastlines for its flagship publication, NY Coastlines/Currents, which is published quarterly. Our program also produces an occasional e-newsletter,"NOAA Sea Grant's Social Media Review," via its blog, www.nyseagrant.org/blog.