In Case You Missed It: Professional Development Opportunity with NH Sea Grant - Apply now!

NH Sea Grant is currently accepting applications for its inaugural cohort of the New Hampshire CoastWise program.  CoastWise seeks to cultivate an engaged and diverse workforce to better tackle the challenges facing our coasts (including upland watersheds).  Throughout the year-long program, participants come together to attend three workshops and a series of webinars to build connections across the state while learning and refreshing a range of skills. CoastWise seeks to forge connections between students, researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers around the state who are working on coastal resilience and marine resource management issues. The program is being offered at no cost to participants. Applications for the 2021-2022 cohort are due by May 27, 2021 via our online form at https://seagrant.unh.edu/coastwise.  

For more information, check out our frequently asked questions page at https://seagrant.unh.edu/coastwise-faqs or contact us at CoastWise.info@unh.edu. 
Planning Event of Interest: Retrofitting the Big Box to Create Spaces the Seacoast Needs

Join Portsmouth Smart Growth and various partners for a virtual presentation from author, architect & urbanist Ellen Dunham-Jones.

Dunham-Jones will address how sprawling commercial infrastructure of the 20th century such as malls, big box stores, office parks and oversized parking lots can be retrofitted to innovatively address these urgent issues, as well as climate change. 

Learn more and register for this free event online.
Public Input Opportunity: New Hampshire 10-Year State Energy Strategy Update - Public Comment

Pursuant to RSA 4-E:1, the Office of Strategic Initiatives is required to review the 10-year State Energy Strategy and consider any necessary updates every three years. OSI is beginning the process of reviewing and updating its 2018 10-Year State Energy Strategy. OSI welcomes public comment for consideration in preparing the 2021 10-Year Energy Strategy.

The public comment submission period will open on May 4, 2021, and close on June 4, 2021 at 4:00pm. Public comment can be sent to OSI by email: osi.osiinfo@osi.nh.gov, or by mail:

Office of Strategic Initiatives
Re: State Energy Strategy
107 Pleasant Street
Johnson Hall, 3rd Floor
Concord, NH 03301
In Case You Missed It: 2021 Climate Summit Five Days Away


CAW’s ninth (and first virtual!) Climate Summit is now just five days away, taking place on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 26 (1pm-4pm), and the morning of Thursday, May 27 (9am-12pm).

Day 1 will feature a keynote address from A.R. Siders, assistant professor at the University of Delaware in the Disaster Research Center. From Siders’ website: “Her research focuses on how and why communities decide when, where, and how to adapt to the effects of climate change and how these decisions and decision-making processes affect risk reduction and equity outcomes. Her current projects focus on adaptive capacity, managed retreat, and adaptation equity. Siders believes adaptation is opportunity and that we should be ambitious, if not audacious, in dreaming of and planning for a better future.” 

The remainder of Day 1 and Day 2 will consist of updates from local researchers, municipal representatives, and partners on the latest science about local climate impacts as well as recent adaptation projects in NH’s coastal watershed communities. Day 2 will also include the announcement of the 2021 CAW Climate Champion Award.

Learn more and register online.
Strafford Regional Planning Commission | 603-994-3500 | srpc@strafford.org| www.strafford.org
May 21, 2021