Project Resilience: Empowering Gulf Coast Youth to Thrive in Transformative Communities

Description: Coastal communities in Louisiana, as elsewhere along the Gulf Coast, are being impacted by rising sea levels, changes in storm intensity, and coastal erosion. These impacts are expected to grow over time as global warming increases and land subsidence continues. Most students in the region understand they are living in one of the fastest changing areas on the planet but knowledge about why the changes are occurring and what can be done in response is less widespread. This project aims to educate 9th-12th grade coastal Louisiana students on the science behind the challenges coastal communities are facing and empower them to use that science to develop community resilience plans addressing the challenges. The project team will develop an environmental science curriculum focused on the Gulf Coast and a toolkit that students can use to guide them through a resilience planning process. A select number of the resilience plans developed will be chosen to receive support for implementation and the educational resources developed will be made available to educators throughout the Gulf Coast region.

Funding Cycle: Capacity Building 2
Funding Organization: National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program