The GIS Integration and Development Program

Grant Project Summary:
Cornell University

Development of a Web site for Dissemination of NY Atlantic Coast Monitoring Program Erosion Hazards Data

March 2004 to February 2005Grant Project Area Map

Project Summary

New York Sea Grant, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and the NOAA Coastal Services Center entered into a cooperative agreement grant to develop a Web site for the dissemination of the Atlantic Coast of New York Monitoring Project (ACNYMP) erosion hazard data. The goal of this project was to provide coastal managers and planners, government officials, property owners, and the public with better access to critical data and information, and the tools needed to use these data, for coastal hazards management and planning along the Atlantic Coast of New York.

NOAA Coastal Services Center's Role

The staffs of the New York State Department of State (NYS-DOS) Division of Coastal Resources and New York Sea Grant (NYSG) worked closely with employees at the NOAA Coastal Services Center to design and implement a Web site to disseminate coastal data from the Atlantic Coast of New York Monitoring Project (ACNYMP) and other sources incorporating the different tools and functions of the ACNYMP's Coastal View application. NOAA staff helped identify enhancements and completed updates and design improvements.

Grantee Overview

New York Sea Grant, Stony Brook, a cooperative program of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, maintains a strong presence statewide, with an institute office in Stony Brook, Long Island, extension and administration offices in Ithaca, and offices located on Long Island, in Manhattan, and near the Great Lakes (Lakes Ontario and Erie), the Hudson River, and Lake Champlain. The program focuses the talents of university scientists and extension specialists on research and the transfer of science-based information to a great variety of coastal user groups, which include businesses and industries; federal, state, and local government decision-makers and agency managers; the media; and the interested public.

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