Wesley Shaw
Wesley Shaw has been working in coastal areas around the country for the past dozen years, doing everything from serving as a naturalist on ships in Southeast Alaska to evaluating federal and state responses to fisheries disasters along the West Coast of the United States. From 2006 to 2008 he served as a NOAA Coastal Services Center Coastal Management Fellow in the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management where he led the development of StormSmart Coasts, an innovative program which worked to help coastal communities address the challenges of storms, flooding, sea level rise, and climate change.
Shaw is now working with NOAA, FEMA, the Gulf of Mexico Alliance, the Northeast Regional Ocean Council and others to bring StormSmart Coasts to a national audience. By September 2009, ten states are scheduled to have their own StormSmart Coasts Network websites, all interconnected though an expanding and evolving network of Web sites.
In 2008 Shaw moved away from New England and back to the rainy Pacific Northwest, where he created Blue Urchin Consulting. He holds a Master’s of Science in Marine Resource Management from Oregon State University's College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences.
Workshop Abstracts
The StormSmart Coasts Network: Connecting Coastal Decision Makers to Resources and Each Other
Related Resources from Wesley Shaw
StormSmart Coasts' "Raise Your Home, Lower Your Monthly Payments" Fact Sheet
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publication of the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management