Human-centric, Data-driven Coastal Flood Resilience Strategies for Economically Disadvantaged Communities on Long Island

The compounding impacts of increasing frequency of extreme flood events and climate change necessitate the development of scalable, adaptable, data-driven, and low-cost flood mitigation planning solutions hyper personalized at the scale of a community. This project: 1) leverages community engagement to quantify historical impacts of flooding, 2) incorporates local Capital Improvement and Mitigation plans and high resolution topographic, climate, and flood risk data, 3) integrates a broad swathe of environmental, behavioral, and socio-economic variables, and 4) develops and delivers a dynamic flood mitigation planning tool that communities can use to evaluate benefits of different mitigation alternatives to sustainably lower the vulnerability to current and future flood risk. This tool will be implemented in Mastic Beach, an economically disadvantaged community on Long Island. This initiative is a partnership with the Suffolk County office of Sustainability, Michael Baker International, Inc., Stony Brook University, and the hamlet of Mastic Beach, New York.