scholarly journals Numerical modeling of the effects of Hurricane Sandy and potential future hurricanes on spatial patterns of salt marsh morphology in Jamaica Bay, New York City

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongqing Wang ◽  
Qin Chen ◽  
Kelin Hu ◽  
Gregg A. Snedden ◽  
Ellen K. Hartig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Numerical Modeling ◽  
Salt Marsh ◽  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
York City ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
Jamaica Bay

scholarly journals Sediment starvation destroys New York City marshes’ resistance to sea level rise

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (41) ◽  
pp. 10281-10286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy M. Peteet ◽  
Jonathan Nichols ◽  
Timothy Kenna ◽  
Clara Chang ◽  
James Browne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
York City ◽  
Organic Sediment ◽  
Jamaica Bay ◽  
Structural Weakness ◽  
Global Sea Level ◽  
Matter Flux

New York City (NYC) is representative of many vulnerable coastal urban populations, infrastructures, and economies threatened by global sea level rise. The steady loss of marshes in NYC’s Jamaica Bay is typical of many urban estuaries worldwide. Essential to the restoration and preservation of these key wetlands is an understanding of their sedimentation. Here we present a reconstruction of the history of mineral and organic sediment fluxes in Jamaica Bay marshes over three centuries, using a combination of density measurements and a detailed accretion model. Accretion rate is calculated using historical land use and pollution markers, through a wide variety of sediment core analyses including geochemical, isotopic, and paleobotanical analyses. We find that, since 1800 CE, urban development dramatically reduced the input of marsh-stabilizing mineral sediment. However, as mineral flux decreased, organic matter flux increased. While this organic accumulation increase allowed vertical accumulation to outpace sea level, reduced mineral content causes structural weakness and edge failure. Marsh integrity now requires mineral sediment addition to both marshes and subsurface channels and borrow pits, a solution applicable to drowning estuaries worldwide. Integration of marsh mineral/organic accretion history with modeling provides parameters for marsh preservation at specific locales with sea level rise.

Hurricane Sandy, October 2012, New York City (USA)

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbra Mann Wall ◽  
Victoria LaMaina ◽  
Emma MacAllister
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Hurricane Sandy

Adaptation to Future Risks in Coastal Megacities — New York City Case Study: Local Assessment and Survey Findings in Water Front Neighborhoods

2018 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 1850002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hildegaard Link ◽  
Chris Barrett
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Water Front

Risk management regimes develop as stakeholders attempt to reduce vulnerability to hazards and limit the damage and disruption from disasters. Urban coastal regions are often hotspots of climate change-related risks. Analysis of different characteristics of vulnerability, resilience, and transformation is an important precursor to planning and decision making. While these concepts are not new, in many areas they remain very abstract. This paper offers a method to assess vulnerability at the individual household scale in different New York City water front neighborhoods that were extensively damaged during hurricane Sandy in 2012. Household Surveys were conducted in Red Hook, Brooklyn and Edgemere/Arverne, Queens in early 2016. Survey results suggest that at the household level, feelings of preparedness and trust in local government’s ability to effectively manage and respond to extreme weather differ with the varying political/economic climates of each neighborhood. Our survey results also indicate that residents are changing their emergency planning behavior, regardless of politics or economics. Responses show residents adapting their thinking to acknowledge the potential for increasing risk from extreme weather events in both locations studied.

Immediate impact of hurricane sandy on people who inject drugs in New York city

2015 ◽  
Vol 146 ◽  
pp. e72-e73
Author(s):  
Enrique R. Pouget ◽  
Milagros Sandoval ◽  
Georgios K. Nikolopoulos ◽  
Samuel R. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
People Who Inject Drugs ◽  
Hurricane Sandy

scholarly journals The Storm Surge and Sub-Grid Inundation Modeling in New York City during Hurricane Sandy

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 226-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Wang ◽  
Jon Loftis ◽  
Zhuo Liu ◽  
David Forrest ◽  
Joseph Zhang
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Storm Surge ◽  
York City ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
Inundation Modeling

scholarly journals Wind disasters adaptation in cities in a changing climate: A systematic review

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. e0248503
Author(s):  
Yue He ◽  
Boqun Wu ◽  
Pan He ◽  
Weiyi Gu ◽  
Beibei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Damage Evaluation ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Changing Climate

Wind-related disasters will bring more devastating consequences to cities in the future with a changing climate, but relevant studies have so far provided insufficient information to guide adaptation actions. This study aims to provide an in-depth elaboration of the contents discussed in open access literature regarding wind disaster adaptation in cities. We used the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to refine topics and main contents based on 232 publications (1900 to 2019) extracted from Web of Science and Scopus. We conducted a full-text analysis to filter out focal cities along with their adaptation measures. The results show that wind disaster adaptation research in cities has formed a systematic framework in four aspects: 1) vulnerability and resilience of cities, 2) damage evaluation, 3) response and recovery, and 4) health impacts of wind disaster. Climate change is the background for many articles discussing vulnerability and adaptation in coastal areas. It is also embedded in damage evaluation since it has the potential to exacerbate disaster consequences. The literature is strongly inclined towards more developed cities such as New York City and New Orleans, among which New York City associated with Hurricane Sandy ranks first (38/232). Studies on New York City cover all the aspects, including the health impacts of wind disasters which are significantly less studied now. Distinct differences do exist in the number of measures regarding the adaptation categories and their subcategories. We also find that hard adaptation measures (i.e., structural and physical measures) are far more popular than soft adaptation measures (i.e., social and institutional measures). Our findings suggest that policymakers should pay more attention to cities that have experienced major wind disasters other than New York. They should embrace the up-to-date climate change study to defend short-term disasters and take precautions against long-term changes. They should also develop hard-soft hybrid adaptation measures, with special attention on the soft side, and enhance the health impact study of wind-related disasters.

scholarly journals Road assessment after flood events using non-authoritative data

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 4155-4179 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Schnebele ◽  
G. Cervone ◽  
N. Waters
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Storm Surge ◽  
York City ◽  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Flood Damage ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
Flood Events ◽  
Geostatistical Interpolation ◽  
Damage Map

Abstract. This research proposes a methodology that leverages non-authoritative data to augment flood extent mapping and the evaluation of transportation infrastructure. The novelty of this approach is the application of freely available, non-authoritative data and its integration with established data and methods. Crowdsourced photos and volunteered geographic data are fused together using a geostatistical interpolation to create an estimation of flood damage in New York City following Hurricane Sandy. This damage assessment is utilized to augment an authoritative storm surge map as well as to create a road damage map for the affected region.

scholarly journals Control of Nonnative Invasive Woody Plant Species at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, New York City

2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 152-156
Author(s):  
Richard Stalter ◽  
Dwight Kincaid ◽  
Michael Byer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Ailanthus Altissima ◽  
Celastrus Orbiculatus ◽  
Rosa Multiflora ◽  
Small Areas ◽  
Wildlife Refuge ◽  
Japanese Honeysuckle ◽  
Jamaica Bay

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge (JBWR) is situated within Jamaica Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean at the western end of Long Island, New York, U.S. (40°35' N latitude, 72°52' W longitude) within Brooklyn and Queens, boroughs of New York City. The vouchered vascular flora of the refuge consists of 456 species within 270 genera and 90 families of which 222 species, 49% of the flora, are nonnative. The most aggressive woody alien species are tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima), Oriental bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus), multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora), Russian olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia), autumn olive (E. umbellata), buckthorn (Rhamnus frangula), Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica), and porcelain berry (Ampelopsis brevipedunculata). Ailanthus altissima, Ampelopsis brevipedunculata, and Celastrus orbiculatus are the most aggressive of the aforementioned aliens. These and additional woody nonnative vascular species can be removed from small areas of a few square meters by cutting, herbicide treatment or hand-pulling. It may be impossible to control, much less eradicate these alien invasives from Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. This article presents guidelines for a scientific and experimental approach to this problem.

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