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Coastal County Snapshots

Ocean Jobs Wetlands Floods

A Tool to Help with Community Resilience

Coastal Challenges

• 53% of U.S. population lives in a coastal area
• Only 17% of Nation’s land
• 57% of U.S. Gross Domestic Product from

Coastal Watershed Counties

• Coastal communities are important

Complex Data  Stories and Visual Aids

Jobs by Sector Jobs by Sector Jobs by Sector

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Snapshots as Communication Tools Coastal County Snapshots

• Provide a basic

understanding of g what is going on in your county

• Help you inform your

communities and plan p policy

Snapshot

Flood Zones Land Cover Demo- graphics Economics Infra- structure

Available Counties

Flood Exposure 342 Ocean and Great Lakes Jobs 448

Snapshot Maintenance Schedule: Annual Updates

Wetland Benefits 342

• Economics: National Ocean

Watch (ENOW) data

Ocean Jobs Snapshot

• From Bureau of Labor

Statistics and Bureau of Economic Analysis

• Six Ocean Economic Sectors
• Trends
• Wage and County

Comparisons

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ENOW’s Six Ocean Economic Sectors

• Living Resources
• Marine Construction
• Marine Transportation
• Offshore Mineral

Resources

• Ship and Boat Building
• Tourism and Recreation

What Are The Counties Saying?

“I didn’t know I had access to all this information.” “This is a great tool I am going to take back to my planning board.”

Demonstrations

Can Help You

• See “Stories” within the Data

Coastal County Snapshots

• See Stories within the Data
• Provide a Non‐Mapping Focus
• Print Individual County Reports
• List Where to Get Data and

Additional Reso rces Additional Resources

• New Version – Mobile‐Friendly

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Coastal County Snapshots / h t /

Thank You!

www.csc.noaa.gov/snapshots/ Danielle.Bamford@noaa.gov Lori Cary Kothera@noaa gov Lori.Cary‐Kothera@noaa.gov cclingan@naco.org

We’re not all data geeks.