Climate Change and Biodiversity in Melanesia (CCBM): Assessing Vulnerability of Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems to Projected Climate Change

Title: Animated Sea-level Rise Author: USGS and Mississippi St. Univ. Comments: E. Lynn Usery, U.S. Geological Survey, 1400 Independence Road, Rolla, MO 65401, email: usery@usgs.gov Jinmu Choi, Department of Geosciences, Mississippi State University, P.O. Box 5448 Mississippi State, MS 39762, Jc778@msstate.edu Michael P. Finn, U.S. Geological Survey, 1400 Independence Road, Rolla, MO 65401, mfinn@usgs.gov Modeling Sea-Level Rise Effects on Population using Global Elevation and Land-Cover Data. Global datasets of moderate resolution have recently become available for population, land cover, and elevation. These data can be used to model the effects of sea-level rise on human population. Whereas the 30 arc-sec resolution of the data are not sufficient to provide details in local areas for results of global warming and the associated melting of icecaps, the data do provide global trends of rising water and allow identification of broad areas where large numbers of people could be affected. The data also support localized modeling of catastrophic events, such as the Indonesian Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, that lead to large surges of sea water. A global model has been developed that tracks the land area and the population counts affected with a specific sea-level rise. The model is implemented as an animation that shows land areas as they are covered with the rising seas. A key to the development of this model has been the implementation of new projection and resampling methods that provide accurate results for global raster data of continuous elevation, categorical land cover, and population counts.
Title: Southeast Asia and Melanesia specific sea-level rise maps Author: Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, University of Kansas Comments: Fixed maps show sea-level rise at 1 to 6 meters. Good for printing. Data is from 1 km grid datasets. Results are very coarse.
Title: Vanuatu web map Author: Government of Vanuatu Comments:
Title: Sea-level rise maps Author: Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, University of Kansas Comments: Fixed maps and interactive maps on Google show sea-level rise at 1 to 6 meters. Data is from 1 km grid datasets. Results are very coarse. Explanation of the data used and methods followed to estimate areas covered by sea-level rise is found on the website.
Title: Detailed map of Fiji Author: Fiji Government Comments:
Title: Coral Reefs of the World; Volume 3: Central and Western Pacific Author: NOAA Comments: Reef maps are in standard and high resolution by country
Title: Interactive projected sea-level rise website Author: Anonymous Comments: Author used NASA SRTM data (90 x 90 meter resolution) and wrote a google script that allows user to indicate how many meters the sea-level will rise and map what areas will be flooded. Because of the nature of SRTM data, this is very accurate for areas with no trees or buildings, but may not accurately show flood areas where trees and buildings are present. This is because SRTM data measures the surface, height, including trees and buildings.
Title: Map Portal of Fiji Author: Fiji Government Comments:
Title: Sea-level change website Author: University of Colorado at Boulder Comments: Sea-level change website includes maps of forecast sea-level change worldwide. Estimates are done on a 1 degree grid basis (approximately 1 km at the equator).

Title: Animated Sea-level Rise
Author: USGS and Mississippi St. Univ.
Comments:
E. Lynn Usery, U.S. Geological Survey, 1400 Independence Road, Rolla, MO 65401, email: usery@usgs.gov Jinmu Choi, Department of Geosciences, Mississippi State University, P.O. Box 5448 Mississippi State, MS 39762, Jc778@msstate.edu Michael P. Finn, U.S. Geological Survey, 1400 Independence Road, Rolla, MO 65401, mfinn@usgs.gov Modeling Sea-Level Rise Effects on Population using Global Elevation and Land-Cover Data. Global datasets of moderate resolution have recently become available for population, land cover, and elevation. These data can be used to model the effects of sea-level rise on human population. Whereas the 30 arc-sec resolution of the data are not sufficient to provide details in local areas for results of global warming and the associated melting of icecaps, the data do provide global trends of rising water and allow identification of broad areas where large numbers of people could be affected. The data also support localized modeling of catastrophic events, such as the Indonesian Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, that lead to large surges of sea water. A global model has been developed that tracks the land area and the population counts affected with a specific sea-level rise. The model is implemented as an animation that shows land areas as they are covered with the rising seas. A key to the development of this model has been the implementation of new projection and resampling methods that provide accurate results for global raster data of continuous elevation, categorical land cover, and population counts.

Title: Southeast Asia and Melanesia specific sea-level rise maps
Author: Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, University of Kansas
Comments:
Fixed maps show sea-level rise at 1 to 6 meters. Good for printing. Data is from 1 km grid datasets. Results are very coarse.

Title: Vanuatu web map
Author: Government of Vanuatu
Comments:

Title: Sea-level rise maps
Author: Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, University of Kansas
Comments:
Fixed maps and interactive maps on Google show sea-level rise at 1 to 6 meters. Data is from 1 km grid datasets. Results are very coarse. Explanation of the data used and methods followed to estimate areas covered by sea-level rise is found on the website.

Title: Detailed map of Fiji
Author: Fiji Government
Comments:

Title: Coral Reefs of the World; Volume 3: Central and Western Pacific
Author: NOAA
Comments:
Reef maps are in standard and high resolution by country

Title: Interactive projected sea-level rise website
Author: Anonymous
Comments:
Author used NASA SRTM data (90 x 90 meter resolution) and wrote a google script that allows user to indicate how many meters the sea-level will rise and map what areas will be flooded. Because of the nature of SRTM data, this is very accurate for areas with no trees or buildings, but may not accurately show flood areas where trees and buildings are present. This is because SRTM data measures the surface, height, including trees and buildings.

Title: Map Portal of Fiji
Author: Fiji Government
Comments:

Title: Sea-level change website
Author: University of Colorado at Boulder
Comments:
Sea-level change website includes maps of forecast sea-level change worldwide. Estimates are done on a 1 degree grid basis (approximately 1 km at the equator).