By McKenna Chow On October 4th, community members from the St. Bernard neighborhood gathered in the library of McDonogh 35. City officials, engineers, and other local leaders discussed the exciting new sustainability initiatives that will make up St. Bernard Campus of the Gentilly Resilience District. These common goals brought together[…]
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Climate from Coast to Coast:
Deluges, Heat Waves, and Wildfire Smoke By: Natasha Gross “Rainstorm in Ocean City, NJ along with rainbows.”– Joanne Baio, Ocean City, NJ As we embark on another week, it’s time to delve into the latest climate events our ISeeChange community has been reporting across the United States. Another week in[…]
A record-setting week: air quality, heat, and drought across the U.S.
By: Natasha Gross Smoke from the expansive wildfires in Canada continues to cast an intense haze over the United States: Chicago, Detroit, New York, City and Washington D.C.are seeing poor air quality—some ranked as having the worst air quality in the world. Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and Michigan, along with[…]
A record-setting storm in South Florida
Flooding season in South Florida typically begins mid-May, but not in 2023. With the Atlantic Ocean 2°C hotter than average for this time of year, spring rain storms have been remarkably intense. The night of April 9, 2023, a thunderstorm brought heavy rain over the greater Miami area, dropping 5.23[…]
New England Facing New Challenges
Picture in your head: extreme heat, drought, and wildfires. What U.S. landscapes or regions come to mind? Maybe arid forests or chaparral. Southern California or New Mexico. But in the summer of 2022, this was a New Englander’s reality. Communities across New England were reporting a range of impacts this[…]
New Orleans: Building Community Climate Resilience
It’s been a hard-won quiet end of August for us in Louisiana. We’re keeping our eyes out for tropical activity, but so far forecasts have been unusually calm. Neighborhood partners and community groups are far from quiet. We’re seeing buzzing and inspiring activity across New Orleans as we learn to[…]
ISeeChange South Florida Ambassador Program
Calling on all South Florida Residents! Give your community a stronger voice in climate solutions. Climate change is a threat multiplier — increasing individuals’ exposure and sensitivity to extreme weather, flooding, sea level rise, and extreme heat. This multiplier effect is particularly burdensome and disproportionately falls on frontline and underserved[…]
Share Hurricane Ida observations to aid in recovery
We are working in solidarity with everyone in our hometown of New Orleans and throughout coastal Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Ida. ISeeChange is collecting observations and data around four main topics: Heat: Without AC, we need to keep track of our health and our neighbors. Trees: Show where they[…]
After a dry 2020, New Orleanians get a triple dose of monsoon flooding in one week
The summer of 2021 is already off to a floody start in New Orleans. Three times this week (on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday) ISeeChangers documented flooding throughout the city during afternoon storms. Monday’s rain event, according to ISeeChange rain gauge hosts in Gentilly, Lakeview, and Midcity was between a 5[…]
ISeeChange in Miami: 2020 Community Recap
From hurricanes to heat, 2020 was a year of broken climate records. In Miami, it was the hottest and third-wettest year on record. While South Florida escaped the worst storms, 2020 was a record-breaking hurricane season in the Atlantic with 30 named storms — 12 of which hit U.S. shores.[…]
Help track flooding and climate change on North Carolina’s coast
ISeeChange is teaming up with the North Carolina Coastal Federation and Green Stream to build a network of flood watchers in Wilmington, North Carolina. Between sunny-day flooding, hurricanes, and beach erosion, coastal North Carolinians have first-hand knowledge of the flooding challenges the region is facing. ISeeChange, Green Stream Technologies and[…]
How ISeeChangers influenced stormwater project designs in Gentilly
In the four years since Jill Shampine moved into New Orleans’ Pilotland, also called the St. Bernard neighborhood, she has experienced five major floods. She began documenting the flooding that she experienced on ISeeChange after a particularly bad storm in 2019 which left her stranded blocks from home until her[…]
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