INSERT INTO `wpj8_posts` VALUES (1544,1,'2022-01-04 20:07:19','2022-01-04 20:07:19','<h1>Field stations</h1>		\n			<h1>A Public-Private research Partnership</h1>		\n		<p>Rural coastal Virginia presents a rare opportunity—numerous publicly owned properties and buildings for real-world product testing and development—an unbeatable living laboratory for the best climate resilience and adaptation solutions, and the chance to make a positive impact quickly. Explore each of the ten properties that have been selected as field stations for research. </p>		\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/adams-creek/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/AdamsCreekCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"0\">\n                        <h2>Adams Creek Recreation Area</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/captain-sinclair/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CaptainSinclair2CROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"1\">\n                        <h2>Captain Sinclair Recreational Area</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/dutchman-point/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/DutchmanPointCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"2\">\n                        <h2>Dutchman Point</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/guinea-marsh-islands/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/GuineaCrop.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"3\">\n                        <h2>Guinea Marsh Islands</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n        <style typr=\"text/css\">\n                    #eael-img-accordion-4909221 .eael-image-accordion-hover:hover {\n                        flex: 3 1 0% !important;\n                    }\n                    #eael-img-accordion-4909221 .eael-image-accordion-hover:hover:hover .overlay-inner * {\n                        opacity: 1;\n                        visibility: visible;\n                        transform: none;\n                        transition: all .3s .3s;\n                    }\n                </style>		\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/pamturn/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PamturnCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"0\">\n                        <h2>Pamturn</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/perrin-river-bryant-donation/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PerrinRiverBryantCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"1\">\n                        <h2>Perrin River / Bryant Donation</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/shenk-property/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ShenkCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"2\">\n                        <h2>Shenk Property</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/sloop-landing/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/SloopLandingCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"3\">\n                        <h2>Sloop Landing</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/winter-harbor/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/WinterCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"4\">\n                        <h2>Winter Harbor North &amp; South</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n        <style typr=\"text/css\">\n                    #eael-img-accordion-528af73 .eael-image-accordion-hover:hover {\n                        flex: 3 1 0% !important;\n                    }\n                    #eael-img-accordion-528af73 .eael-image-accordion-hover:hover:hover .overlay-inner * {\n                        opacity: 1;\n                        visibility: visible;\n                        transform: none;\n                        transition: all .3s .3s;\n                    }\n                </style>		\n															<img width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersMPPDC.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersMPPDC.png 500w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersMPPDC-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" />															\n			<h3>Multi-use Public Land Access</h3>		\n		<p>The Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority (MP-PAA) offers access to public waters and recreational lands. Shorelines are high-priority natural areas and it is critical to set aside access sites for all types of recreational activities important to our economy and to the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia. These MP-PAA properties can be <a href=\"https://mppaa.virginiainteractive.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>reserved online</strong></a> for outdoor recreational activities like hunting, hiking nature trails, fishing, crabbing, boating, and many others. Be mindful of users engaged in these activities while conducting research at any of the sites.</p>','Field Stations','','inherit','closed','closed','','512-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:07:19','2022-01-04 20:07:19','',512,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1544',0,'revision','',0),(1545,1,'2022-01-04 20:07:20','2022-01-04 20:07:20','<h1>Field stations</h1>		\n			<h1>A Public-Private research Partnership</h1>		\n		<p>Rural coastal Virginia presents a rare opportunity—numerous publicly owned properties and buildings for real-world product testing and development—an unbeatable living laboratory for the best climate resilience and adaptation solutions, and the chance to make a positive impact quickly. Explore each of the ten properties that have been selected as field stations for research. </p>		\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/adams-creek/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/AdamsCreekCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"0\">\n                        <h2>Adams Creek Recreation Area</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/captain-sinclair/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CaptainSinclair2CROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"1\">\n                        <h2>Captain Sinclair Recreational Area</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/dutchman-point/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/DutchmanPointCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"2\">\n                        <h2>Dutchman Point</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/guinea-marsh-islands/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/GuineaCrop.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"3\">\n                        <h2>Guinea Marsh Islands</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n        <style typr=\"text/css\">\n                    #eael-img-accordion-4909221 .eael-image-accordion-hover:hover {\n                        flex: 3 1 0% !important;\n                    }\n                    #eael-img-accordion-4909221 .eael-image-accordion-hover:hover:hover .overlay-inner * {\n                        opacity: 1;\n                        visibility: visible;\n                        transform: none;\n                        transition: all .3s .3s;\n                    }\n                </style>		\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/pamturn/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PamturnCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"0\">\n                        <h2>Pamturn</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/perrin-river-bryant-donation/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PerrinRiverBryantCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"1\">\n                        <h2>Perrin River / Bryant Donation</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/shenk-property/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ShenkCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"2\">\n                        <h2>Shenk Property</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/sloop-landing/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/SloopLandingCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"3\">\n                        <h2>Sloop Landing</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/winter-harbor/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/WinterCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"4\">\n                        <h2>Winter Harbor North &amp; South</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n        <style typr=\"text/css\">\n                    #eael-img-accordion-528af73 .eael-image-accordion-hover:hover {\n                        flex: 3 1 0% !important;\n                    }\n                    #eael-img-accordion-528af73 .eael-image-accordion-hover:hover:hover .overlay-inner * {\n                        opacity: 1;\n                        visibility: visible;\n                        transform: none;\n                        transition: all .3s .3s;\n                    }\n                </style>		\n															<img width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersMPPDC.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersMPPDC.png 500w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersMPPDC-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" />															\n			<h3>Multi-use Public Land Access</h3>		\n		<p>The Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority (MP-PAA) offers access to public waters and recreational lands. Shorelines are high-priority natural areas and it is critical to set aside access sites for all types of recreational activities important to our economy and to the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia. These MP-PAA properties can be <a href=\"https://mppaa.virginiainteractive.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>reserved online</strong></a> for outdoor recreational activities like hunting, hiking nature trails, fishing, crabbing, boating, and many others. Be mindful of users engaged in these activities while conducting research at any of the sites.</p>','Field Stations','','inherit','closed','closed','','512-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:07:20','2022-01-04 20:07:20','',512,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1545',0,'revision','',0),(1547,1,'2022-01-04 20:09:12','2022-01-04 20:09:12','<h1>Field stations</h1>		\n			<h1>A Public-Private research Partnership</h1>		\n		<p>Rural coastal Virginia presents a rare opportunity—numerous publicly owned properties and buildings for real-world product testing and development—an unequaled living laboratory for testing the best climate resilience and adaptation solutions, and the chance to make a positive impact quickly. Explore each of these nine properties that are among the best field station opportunities* for research.</p><p><em>*The total inventory includes over 50 properties and these may also be available to suit individual research requirements.</em></p>		\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/adams-creek/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/AdamsCreekCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"0\">\n                        <h2>Adams Creek Recreation Area</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/captain-sinclair/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CaptainSinclair2CROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"1\">\n                        <h2>Captain Sinclair Recreational Area</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/dutchman-point/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/DutchmanPointCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"2\">\n                        <h2>Dutchman Point</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/guinea-marsh-islands/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/GuineaCrop.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"3\">\n                        <h2>Guinea Marsh Islands</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n        <style typr=\"text/css\">\n                    #eael-img-accordion-4909221 .eael-image-accordion-hover:hover {\n                        flex: 3 1 0% !important;\n                    }\n                    #eael-img-accordion-4909221 .eael-image-accordion-hover:hover:hover .overlay-inner * {\n                        opacity: 1;\n                        visibility: visible;\n                        transform: none;\n                        transition: all .3s .3s;\n                    }\n                </style>		\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/pamturn/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PamturnCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"0\">\n                        <h2>Pamturn</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/perrin-river-bryant-donation/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PerrinRiverBryantCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"1\">\n                        <h2>Perrin River / Bryant Donation</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/shenk-property/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ShenkCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"2\">\n                        <h2>Shenk Property</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/sloop-landing/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/SloopLandingCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"3\">\n                        <h2>Sloop Landing</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/winter-harbor/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/WinterCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"4\">\n                        <h2>Winter Harbor North &amp; South</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n        <style typr=\"text/css\">\n                    #eael-img-accordion-528af73 .eael-image-accordion-hover:hover {\n                        flex: 3 1 0% !important;\n                    }\n                    #eael-img-accordion-528af73 .eael-image-accordion-hover:hover:hover .overlay-inner * {\n                        opacity: 1;\n                        visibility: visible;\n                        transform: none;\n                        transition: all .3s .3s;\n                    }\n                </style>		\n															<img width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersMPPDC.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersMPPDC.png 500w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersMPPDC-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" />															\n			<h3>Multi-use Public Land Access</h3>		\n		<p>The Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority (MP-PAA) offers access to public waters and recreational lands. Shorelines are high-priority natural areas and it is critical to set aside access sites for all types of recreational activities important to our economy and to the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia. These MP-PAA properties can be <a href=\"https://mppaa.virginiainteractive.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>reserved online</strong></a> for outdoor recreational activities like hunting, hiking nature trails, fishing, crabbing, boating, and many others. Be mindful of users engaged in these activities while conducting research at any of the sites.</p>','Field Stations','','inherit','closed','closed','','512-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:09:12','2022-01-04 20:09:12','',512,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1547',0,'revision','',0),(1548,1,'2022-01-04 20:09:12','2022-01-04 20:09:12','<h1>Field stations</h1>		\n			<h1>A Public-Private research Partnership</h1>		\n		<p>Rural coastal Virginia presents a rare opportunity—numerous publicly owned properties and buildings for real-world product testing and development—an unequaled living laboratory for testing the best climate resilience and adaptation solutions, and the chance to make a positive impact quickly. Explore each of these nine properties that are among the best field station opportunities* for research.</p><p><em>*The total inventory includes over 50 properties and these may also be available to suit individual research requirements.</em></p>		\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/adams-creek/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/AdamsCreekCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"0\">\n                        <h2>Adams Creek Recreation Area</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/captain-sinclair/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CaptainSinclair2CROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"1\">\n                        <h2>Captain Sinclair Recreational Area</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/dutchman-point/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/DutchmanPointCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"2\">\n                        <h2>Dutchman Point</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/guinea-marsh-islands/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/GuineaCrop.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"3\">\n                        <h2>Guinea Marsh Islands</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n        <style typr=\"text/css\">\n                    #eael-img-accordion-4909221 .eael-image-accordion-hover:hover {\n                        flex: 3 1 0% !important;\n                    }\n                    #eael-img-accordion-4909221 .eael-image-accordion-hover:hover:hover .overlay-inner * {\n                        opacity: 1;\n                        visibility: visible;\n                        transform: none;\n                        transition: all .3s .3s;\n                    }\n                </style>		\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/pamturn/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PamturnCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"0\">\n                        <h2>Pamturn</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/perrin-river-bryant-donation/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PerrinRiverBryantCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"1\">\n                        <h2>Perrin River / Bryant Donation</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/shenk-property/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ShenkCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"2\">\n                        <h2>Shenk Property</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/sloop-landing/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/SloopLandingCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"3\">\n                        <h2>Sloop Landing</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/winter-harbor/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/WinterCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"4\">\n                        <h2>Winter Harbor North &amp; South</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n        <style typr=\"text/css\">\n                    #eael-img-accordion-528af73 .eael-image-accordion-hover:hover {\n                        flex: 3 1 0% !important;\n                    }\n                    #eael-img-accordion-528af73 .eael-image-accordion-hover:hover:hover .overlay-inner * {\n                        opacity: 1;\n                        visibility: visible;\n                        transform: none;\n                        transition: all .3s .3s;\n                    }\n                </style>		\n															<img width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersMPPDC.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersMPPDC.png 500w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersMPPDC-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" />															\n			<h3>Multi-use Public Land Access</h3>		\n		<p>The Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority (MP-PAA) offers access to public waters and recreational lands. Shorelines are high-priority natural areas and it is critical to set aside access sites for all types of recreational activities important to our economy and to the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia. These MP-PAA properties can be <a href=\"https://mppaa.virginiainteractive.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>reserved online</strong></a> for outdoor recreational activities like hunting, hiking nature trails, fishing, crabbing, boating, and many others. Be mindful of users engaged in these activities while conducting research at any of the sites.</p>','Field Stations','','inherit','closed','closed','','512-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:09:12','2022-01-04 20:09:12','',512,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1548',0,'revision','',0),(1549,1,'2022-01-04 20:09:13','2022-01-04 20:09:13','<h1>Field stations</h1>		\n			<h1>A Public-Private research Partnership</h1>		\n		<p>Rural coastal Virginia presents a rare opportunity—numerous publicly owned properties and buildings for real-world product testing and development—an unequaled living laboratory for testing the best climate resilience and adaptation solutions, and the chance to make a positive impact quickly. Explore each of these nine properties that are among the best field station opportunities* for research.</p><p><em>*The total inventory includes over 50 properties and these may also be available to suit individual research requirements.</em></p>		\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/adams-creek/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/AdamsCreekCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"0\">\n                        <h2>Adams Creek Recreation Area</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/captain-sinclair/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CaptainSinclair2CROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"1\">\n                        <h2>Captain Sinclair Recreational Area</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/dutchman-point/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/DutchmanPointCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"2\">\n                        <h2>Dutchman Point</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/guinea-marsh-islands/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/GuineaCrop.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"3\">\n                        <h2>Guinea Marsh Islands</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n        <style typr=\"text/css\">\n                    #eael-img-accordion-4909221 .eael-image-accordion-hover:hover {\n                        flex: 3 1 0% !important;\n                    }\n                    #eael-img-accordion-4909221 .eael-image-accordion-hover:hover:hover .overlay-inner * {\n                        opacity: 1;\n                        visibility: visible;\n                        transform: none;\n                        transition: all .3s .3s;\n                    }\n                </style>		\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/pamturn/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PamturnCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"0\">\n                        <h2>Pamturn</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/perrin-river-bryant-donation/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PerrinRiverBryantCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"1\">\n                        <h2>Perrin River / Bryant Donation</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/shenk-property/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ShenkCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"2\">\n                        <h2>Shenk Property</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/sloop-landing/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/SloopLandingCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"3\">\n                        <h2>Sloop Landing</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n            <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/winter-harbor/\" style=\"background-image: url(https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/WinterCROP.jpg);\"  tabindex=\"4\">\n                        <h2>Winter Harbor North &amp; South</h2>                        <p></p>\n            </a>\n        <style typr=\"text/css\">\n                    #eael-img-accordion-528af73 .eael-image-accordion-hover:hover {\n                        flex: 3 1 0% !important;\n                    }\n                    #eael-img-accordion-528af73 .eael-image-accordion-hover:hover:hover .overlay-inner * {\n                        opacity: 1;\n                        visibility: visible;\n                        transform: none;\n                        transition: all .3s .3s;\n                    }\n                </style>		\n															<img width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersMPPDC.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersMPPDC.png 500w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersMPPDC-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" />															\n			<h3>Multi-use Public Land Access</h3>		\n		<p>The Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority (MP-PAA) offers access to public waters and recreational lands. Shorelines are high-priority natural areas and it is critical to set aside access sites for all types of recreational activities important to our economy and to the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia. These MP-PAA properties can be <a href=\"https://mppaa.virginiainteractive.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>reserved online</strong></a> for outdoor recreational activities like hunting, hiking nature trails, fishing, crabbing, boating, and many others. Be mindful of users engaged in these activities while conducting research at any of the sites.</p>','Field Stations','','inherit','closed','closed','','512-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:09:13','2022-01-04 20:09:13','',512,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1549',0,'revision','',0),(1550,1,'2022-01-04 20:12:29','2022-01-04 20:12:29','','GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB','','inherit','','closed','','gova_actionplan2021_web','','','2022-01-04 20:12:29','2022-01-04 20:12:29','',0,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf',0,'attachment','application/pdf',0),(1551,1,'2022-01-04 20:13:17','2022-01-04 20:13:17','<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong>Action Plan </strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:13:17','2022-01-04 20:13:17','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1551',0,'revision','',0),(1552,1,'2022-01-04 20:13:17','2022-01-04 20:13:17','<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong>Action Plan </strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:13:17','2022-01-04 20:13:17','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1552',0,'revision','',0),(1553,1,'2022-01-04 20:13:18','2022-01-04 20:13:18','<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:13:18','2022-01-04 20:13:18','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1553',0,'revision','',0),(1554,1,'2022-01-04 20:14:15','2022-01-04 20:14:15','<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:14:15','2022-01-04 20:14:15','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1554',0,'revision','',0),(1555,1,'2022-01-04 20:14:16','2022-01-04 20:14:16','<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:14:16','2022-01-04 20:14:16','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1555',0,'revision','',0),(1556,1,'2022-01-04 20:14:16','2022-01-04 20:14:16','<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:14:16','2022-01-04 20:14:16','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1556',0,'revision','',0),(1558,1,'2022-01-04 20:21:40','2022-01-04 20:21:40','<h1>About This Initiative</h1>		\n			<h2>VISION</h2>		\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia will be a global leader in innovative technologies, products, and services that help residential, commercial, and industrial properties adapt to flooding, erosion, and other challenges caused by sea-level rise.</h2>		\n		<p>Increased flooding and high value residential, commercial, and industrial assets in vulnerable urban, suburban and rural coastal communities are growing market demand for new, cost-effective adaptation solutions. Virginia has a competitive advantage – it is experiencing flooding and erosion impacts from the highest level of relative sea-level rise on the east coast thus it is developing innovative adaptation technologies, products, and services with global applications. Growing a water adaptation economy is a priority in the GO Virginia Region 6 <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia6.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Growth-Diverisfication-Plan-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth &amp; Diversification Plan</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan</a></strong>, and the Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/articles/service_centers/Economic%20Development/MPPDC%20CEDS%20update%20-%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy</a></strong> (CEDS), and aligns with the Economic Development Authority\'s (EDA) equity, recovery &amp; resilience, workforce development, technology-based economic development, and environmentally-sustainable development priorities.</p>		\n			<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>		\n		<p><strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”</p>		\n			<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster & Innovation Ecosystem</h2>		\n															<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" />															\n			<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>		\n		<p>To achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:</p><h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4><ul><li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong> <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.  In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>  </li><li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.  Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li></ul><h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4><p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li><li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li><li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </strong></li></ul><h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4><p>Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li><li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li></ul>		\n			<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>		\n		<p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:</p><ul><li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li></ul>','About This Initiative','','inherit','closed','closed','','286-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:21:40','2022-01-04 20:21:40','',286,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1558',0,'revision','',0),(1559,1,'2022-01-04 20:21:40','2022-01-04 20:21:40','<h1>About This Initiative</h1>		\n			<h2>VISION</h2>		\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia will be a global leader in innovative technologies, products, and services that help residential, commercial, and industrial properties adapt to flooding, erosion, and other challenges caused by sea-level rise.</h2>		\n		<p>Increased flooding and high value residential, commercial, and industrial assets in vulnerable urban, suburban and rural coastal communities are growing market demand for new, cost-effective adaptation solutions. Virginia has a competitive advantage – it is experiencing flooding and erosion impacts from the highest level of relative sea-level rise on the east coast thus it is developing innovative adaptation technologies, products, and services with global applications. Growing a water adaptation economy is a priority in the GO Virginia Region 6 <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia6.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Growth-Diverisfication-Plan-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth &amp; Diversification Plan</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan</a></strong>, and the Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/articles/service_centers/Economic%20Development/MPPDC%20CEDS%20update%20-%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy</a></strong> (CEDS), and aligns with the Economic Development Authority\'s (EDA) equity, recovery &amp; resilience, workforce development, technology-based economic development, and environmentally-sustainable development priorities.</p>		\n			<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>		\n		<p><strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”</p>		\n			<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster & Innovation Ecosystem</h2>		\n															<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" />															\n			<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>		\n		<p>To achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:</p><h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4><ul><li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong> <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.  In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>  </li><li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.  Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li></ul><h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4><p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li><li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li><li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </strong></li></ul><h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4><p>Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li><li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li></ul>		\n			<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>		\n		<p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:</p><ul><li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li></ul>','About This Initiative','','inherit','closed','closed','','286-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:21:40','2022-01-04 20:21:40','',286,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1559',0,'revision','',0),(1560,1,'2022-01-04 20:27:23','2022-01-04 20:27:23','<h1>About This Initiative</h1>		\n			<h2>VISION</h2>		\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia will be a global leader in innovative technologies, products, and services that help residential, commercial, and industrial properties adapt to flooding, erosion, and other challenges caused by sea-level rise.</h2>		\n		<p>Increased flooding and high value residential, commercial, and industrial assets in vulnerable urban, suburban and rural coastal communities are growing market demand for new, cost-effective adaptation solutions. Virginia has a competitive advantage – it is experiencing flooding and erosion impacts from the highest level of relative sea-level rise on the east coast thus it is developing innovative adaptation technologies, products, and services with global applications. Growing a water adaptation economy is a priority in the GO Virginia Region 6 <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia6.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Growth-Diverisfication-Plan-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth &amp; Diversification Plan</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan</a></strong>, and the Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/articles/service_centers/Economic%20Development/MPPDC%20CEDS%20update%20-%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy</a></strong> (CEDS), and aligns with the Economic Development Authority\'s (EDA) equity, recovery &amp; resilience, workforce development, technology-based economic development, and environmentally-sustainable development priorities.</p>		\n			<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>		\n		<p><strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”</p>		\n			<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster & Innovation Ecosystem</h2>		\n															<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" />															\n			<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>		\n		<p>To achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:</p><h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4><ul><li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong> <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.  In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>  </li><li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.  Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li></ul><h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4><p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li><li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li><li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </strong></li></ul><h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4><p>Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li><li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li></ul>		\n			<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>		\n		<p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:</p><ul><li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li></ul>','About This Initiative','','inherit','closed','closed','','286-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:27:23','2022-01-04 20:27:23','',286,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1560',0,'revision','',0),(1561,1,'2022-01-04 20:27:24','2022-01-04 20:27:24','<h1>About This Initiative</h1>		\n			<h2>VISION</h2>		\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia will be a global leader in innovative technologies, products, and services that help residential, commercial, and industrial properties adapt to flooding, erosion, and other challenges caused by sea-level rise.</h2>		\n		<p>Increased flooding and high value residential, commercial, and industrial assets in vulnerable urban, suburban and rural coastal communities are growing market demand for new, cost-effective adaptation solutions. Virginia has a competitive advantage – it is experiencing flooding and erosion impacts from the highest level of relative sea-level rise on the east coast thus it is developing innovative adaptation technologies, products, and services with global applications. Growing a water adaptation economy is a priority in the GO Virginia Region 6 <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia6.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Growth-Diverisfication-Plan-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth &amp; Diversification Plan</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan</a></strong>, and the Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/articles/service_centers/Economic%20Development/MPPDC%20CEDS%20update%20-%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy</a></strong> (CEDS), and aligns with the Economic Development Authority\'s (EDA) equity, recovery &amp; resilience, workforce development, technology-based economic development, and environmentally-sustainable development priorities.</p>		\n			<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>		\n		<p><strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”</p>		\n			<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster & Innovation Ecosystem</h2>		\n															<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" />															\n			<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>		\n		<p>To achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:</p><h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4><ul><li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong> <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.  In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>  </li><li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.  Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li></ul><h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4><p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li><li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li><li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </strong></li></ul><h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4><p>Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li><li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li></ul>		\n			<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>		\n		<p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:</p><ul><li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li></ul>','About This Initiative','','inherit','closed','closed','','286-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:27:24','2022-01-04 20:27:24','',286,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1561',0,'revision','',0),(1562,1,'2022-01-04 20:27:24','2022-01-04 20:27:24','<h1>About This Initiative</h1>		\n			<h2>VISION</h2>		\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia will be a global leader in innovative technologies, products, and services that help residential, commercial, and industrial properties adapt to flooding, erosion, and other challenges caused by sea-level rise.</h2>		\n		<p>Increased flooding and high value residential, commercial, and industrial assets in vulnerable urban, suburban and rural coastal communities are growing market demand for new, cost-effective adaptation solutions. Virginia has a competitive advantage – it is experiencing flooding and erosion impacts from the highest level of relative sea-level rise on the east coast thus it is developing innovative adaptation technologies, products, and services with global applications. Growing a water adaptation economy is a priority in the GO Virginia Region 6 <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia6.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Growth-Diverisfication-Plan-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth &amp; Diversification Plan</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan</a></strong>, and the Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/articles/service_centers/Economic%20Development/MPPDC%20CEDS%20update%20-%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy</a></strong> (CEDS), and aligns with the Economic Development Authority\'s (EDA) equity, recovery &amp; resilience, workforce development, technology-based economic development, and environmentally-sustainable development priorities.</p>		\n			<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>		\n		<p><strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”</p>		\n			<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster & Innovation Ecosystem</h2>		\n															<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" />															\n			<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>		\n		<p>To achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:</p><h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4><ul><li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong> <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.  In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>  </li><li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.  Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li></ul><h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4><p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li><li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li><li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </strong></li></ul><h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4><p>Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li><li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li></ul>		\n			<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>		\n		<p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:</p><ul><li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li></ul>','About This Initiative','','inherit','closed','closed','','286-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:27:24','2022-01-04 20:27:24','',286,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1562',0,'revision','',0),(1865,1,'2022-02-16 15:01:49','2022-02-16 15:01:49','<style>/*! elementor - v3.5.5 - 03-02-2022 */\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}</style><h2>$1M Collaborative Research Challenge</h2>		\n			<h1>About This Initiative</h1>		\n			<h2>VISION</h2>		\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia will be a global leader in innovative technologies, products, and services that help residential, commercial, and industrial properties adapt to flooding, erosion, and other challenges caused by sea-level rise.</h2>		\n		<p>Increased flooding and high value residential, commercial, and industrial assets in vulnerable urban, suburban and rural coastal communities are growing market demand for new, cost-effective adaptation solutions. Virginia has a competitive advantage – it is experiencing flooding and erosion impacts from the highest level of relative sea-level rise on the east coast thus it is developing innovative adaptation technologies, products, and services with global applications. Growing a water adaptation economy is a priority in the GO Virginia Region 6 <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia6.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Growth-Diverisfication-Plan-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth &amp; Diversification Plan</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan</a></strong>, and the Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/articles/service_centers/Economic%20Development/MPPDC%20CEDS%20update%20-%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy</a></strong> (CEDS), and aligns with the Economic Development Authority\'s (EDA) equity, recovery &amp; resilience, workforce development, technology-based economic development, and environmentally-sustainable development priorities.</p>		\n			<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>		\n		<p><strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”</p>		\n			<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster & Innovation Ecosystem</h2>		\n			<style>/*! elementor - v3.5.5 - 03-02-2022 */\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}</style>												<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" />															\n			<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>		\n		<p>To achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:</p><h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4><ul><li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong> <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.  In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>  </li><li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.  Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li></ul><h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4><p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li><li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li><li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </strong></li></ul><h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4><p>Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li><li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li></ul>		\n			<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>		\n		<p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:</p><ul><li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li></ul>','1M Collaborative Research Challenge','','inherit','closed','closed','','1861-revision-v1','','','2022-02-16 15:01:49','2022-02-16 15:01:49','',1861,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1865',0,'revision','',0),(1866,1,'2022-02-16 15:01:49','2022-02-16 15:01:49','<style>/*! elementor - v3.5.5 - 03-02-2022 */\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}</style><h2>$1M Collaborative Research Challenge</h2>		\n			<h1>rural coastal adaptation & resilience</h1>		\n			<h2>VISION</h2>		\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia will be a global leader in innovative technologies, products, and services that help residential, commercial, and industrial properties adapt to flooding, erosion, and other challenges caused by sea-level rise.</h2>		\n		<p>Increased flooding and high value residential, commercial, and industrial assets in vulnerable urban, suburban and rural coastal communities are growing market demand for new, cost-effective adaptation solutions. Virginia has a competitive advantage – it is experiencing flooding and erosion impacts from the highest level of relative sea-level rise on the east coast thus it is developing innovative adaptation technologies, products, and services with global applications. Growing a water adaptation economy is a priority in the GO Virginia Region 6 <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia6.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Growth-Diverisfication-Plan-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth &amp; Diversification Plan</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan</a></strong>, and the Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/articles/service_centers/Economic%20Development/MPPDC%20CEDS%20update%20-%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy</a></strong> (CEDS), and aligns with the Economic Development Authority\'s (EDA) equity, recovery &amp; resilience, workforce development, technology-based economic development, and environmentally-sustainable development priorities.</p>		\n			<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>		\n		<p><strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”</p>		\n			<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster & Innovation Ecosystem</h2>		\n			<style>/*! elementor - v3.5.5 - 03-02-2022 */\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}</style>												<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" />															\n			<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>		\n		<p>To achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:</p><h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4><ul><li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong> <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.  In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>  </li><li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.  Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li></ul><h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4><p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li><li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li><li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </strong></li></ul><h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4><p>Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li><li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li></ul>		\n			<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>		\n		<p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:</p><ul><li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li></ul>','1M Collaborative Research Challenge','','inherit','closed','closed','','1861-revision-v1','','','2022-02-16 15:01:49','2022-02-16 15:01:49','',1861,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1866',0,'revision','',0),(1567,1,'2022-01-04 20:30:52','2022-01-04 20:30:52','<h1>About This Initiative</h1>		\n			<h2>VISION</h2>		\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia will be a global leader in innovative technologies, products, and services that help residential, commercial, and industrial properties adapt to flooding, erosion, and other challenges caused by sea-level rise.</h2>		\n		<p>Increased flooding and high value residential, commercial, and industrial assets in vulnerable urban, suburban and rural coastal communities are growing market demand for new, cost-effective adaptation solutions. Virginia has a competitive advantage – it is experiencing flooding and erosion impacts from the highest level of relative sea-level rise on the east coast thus it is developing innovative adaptation technologies, products, and services with global applications. Growing a water adaptation economy is a priority in the GO Virginia Region 6 <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia6.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Growth-Diverisfication-Plan-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth &amp; Diversification Plan</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan</a></strong>, and the Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/articles/service_centers/Economic%20Development/MPPDC%20CEDS%20update%20-%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy</a></strong> (CEDS), and aligns with the Economic Development Authority\'s (EDA) equity, recovery &amp; resilience, workforce development, technology-based economic development, and environmentally-sustainable development priorities.</p>		\n			<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>		\n		<p><strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”</p>		\n			<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster & Innovation Ecosystem</h2>		\n															<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" />															\n			<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>		\n		<p>To achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:</p><h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4><ul><li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong> <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.  In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>  </li><li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.  Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li></ul><h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4><p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li><li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li><li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </strong></li></ul><h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4><p>Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li><li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li></ul>		\n			<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>		\n		<p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:</p><ul><li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li></ul>','About This Initiative','','inherit','closed','closed','','286-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:30:52','2022-01-04 20:30:52','',286,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1567',0,'revision','',0),(1565,1,'2022-01-04 20:30:51','2022-01-04 20:30:51','<h1>About This Initiative</h1>		\n			<h2>VISION</h2>		\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia will be a global leader in innovative technologies, products, and services that help residential, commercial, and industrial properties adapt to flooding, erosion, and other challenges caused by sea-level rise.</h2>		\n		<p>Increased flooding and high value residential, commercial, and industrial assets in vulnerable urban, suburban and rural coastal communities are growing market demand for new, cost-effective adaptation solutions. Virginia has a competitive advantage – it is experiencing flooding and erosion impacts from the highest level of relative sea-level rise on the east coast thus it is developing innovative adaptation technologies, products, and services with global applications. Growing a water adaptation economy is a priority in the GO Virginia Region 6 <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia6.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Growth-Diverisfication-Plan-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth &amp; Diversification Plan</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan</a></strong>, and the Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/articles/service_centers/Economic%20Development/MPPDC%20CEDS%20update%20-%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy</a></strong> (CEDS), and aligns with the Economic Development Authority\'s (EDA) equity, recovery &amp; resilience, workforce development, technology-based economic development, and environmentally-sustainable development priorities.</p>		\n			<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>		\n		<p><strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”</p>		\n			<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster & Innovation Ecosystem</h2>		\n															<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" />															\n			<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>		\n		<p>To achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:</p><h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4><ul><li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong> <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.  In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>  </li><li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.  Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li></ul><h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4><p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li><li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li><li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </strong></li></ul><h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4><p>Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li><li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li></ul>		\n			<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>		\n		<p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:</p><ul><li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li></ul>','About This Initiative','','inherit','closed','closed','','286-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:30:51','2022-01-04 20:30:51','',286,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1565',0,'revision','',0),(1566,1,'2022-01-04 20:30:52','2022-01-04 20:30:52','<h1>About This Initiative</h1>		\n			<h2>VISION</h2>		\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia will be a global leader in innovative technologies, products, and services that help residential, commercial, and industrial properties adapt to flooding, erosion, and other challenges caused by sea-level rise.</h2>		\n		<p>Increased flooding and high value residential, commercial, and industrial assets in vulnerable urban, suburban and rural coastal communities are growing market demand for new, cost-effective adaptation solutions. Virginia has a competitive advantage – it is experiencing flooding and erosion impacts from the highest level of relative sea-level rise on the east coast thus it is developing innovative adaptation technologies, products, and services with global applications. Growing a water adaptation economy is a priority in the GO Virginia Region 6 <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia6.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Growth-Diverisfication-Plan-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth &amp; Diversification Plan</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan</a></strong>, and the Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/articles/service_centers/Economic%20Development/MPPDC%20CEDS%20update%20-%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy</a></strong> (CEDS), and aligns with the Economic Development Authority\'s (EDA) equity, recovery &amp; resilience, workforce development, technology-based economic development, and environmentally-sustainable development priorities.</p>		\n			<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>		\n		<p><strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”</p>		\n			<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster & Innovation Ecosystem</h2>		\n															<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" />															\n			<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>		\n		<p>To achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:</p><h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4><ul><li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong> <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.  In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>  </li><li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.  Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li></ul><h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4><p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li><li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li><li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </strong></li></ul><h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4><p>Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li><li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li></ul>		\n			<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>		\n		<p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:</p><ul><li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li></ul>','About This Initiative','','inherit','closed','closed','','286-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:30:52','2022-01-04 20:30:52','',286,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1566',0,'revision','',0),(1568,1,'2022-01-04 20:35:31','2022-01-04 20:35:31','<h1>About This Initiative</h1>		\n			<h2>VISION</h2>		\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia will be a global leader in innovative technologies, products, and services that help residential, commercial, and industrial properties adapt to flooding, erosion, and other challenges caused by sea-level rise.</h2>		\n		<p>Increased flooding and high value residential, commercial, and industrial assets in vulnerable urban, suburban and rural coastal communities are growing market demand for new, cost-effective adaptation solutions. Virginia has a competitive advantage – it is experiencing flooding and erosion impacts from the highest level of relative sea-level rise on the east coast thus it is developing innovative adaptation technologies, products, and services with global applications. Growing a water adaptation economy is a priority in the GO Virginia Region 6 <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia6.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Growth-Diverisfication-Plan-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth &amp; Diversification Plan</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan</a></strong>, and the Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/articles/service_centers/Economic%20Development/MPPDC%20CEDS%20update%20-%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy</a></strong> (CEDS), and aligns with the Economic Development Authority\'s (EDA) equity, recovery &amp; resilience, workforce development, technology-based economic development, and environmentally-sustainable development priorities.</p>		\n			<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>		\n		<p><strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”</p>		\n			<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster & Innovation Ecosystem</h2>		\n															<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" />															\n			<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>		\n		<p>To achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:</p><h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4><ul><li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong> <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.  In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>  </li><li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.  Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li></ul><h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4><p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li><li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li><li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </strong></li></ul><h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4><p>Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li><li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li></ul>		\n			<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>		\n		<p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:</p><ul><li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li></ul>','About This Initiative','','inherit','closed','closed','','286-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:35:31','2022-01-04 20:35:31','',286,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1568',0,'revision','',0),(1569,1,'2022-01-04 20:35:32','2022-01-04 20:35:32','<h1>About This Initiative</h1>		\n			<h2>VISION</h2>		\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia will be a global leader in innovative technologies, products, and services that help residential, commercial, and industrial properties adapt to flooding, erosion, and other challenges caused by sea-level rise.</h2>		\n		<p>Increased flooding and high value residential, commercial, and industrial assets in vulnerable urban, suburban and rural coastal communities are growing market demand for new, cost-effective adaptation solutions. Virginia has a competitive advantage – it is experiencing flooding and erosion impacts from the highest level of relative sea-level rise on the east coast thus it is developing innovative adaptation technologies, products, and services with global applications. Growing a water adaptation economy is a priority in the GO Virginia Region 6 <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia6.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Growth-Diverisfication-Plan-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth &amp; Diversification Plan</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan</a></strong>, and the Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/articles/service_centers/Economic%20Development/MPPDC%20CEDS%20update%20-%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy</a></strong> (CEDS), and aligns with the Economic Development Authority\'s (EDA) equity, recovery &amp; resilience, workforce development, technology-based economic development, and environmentally-sustainable development priorities.</p>		\n			<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>		\n		<p><strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”</p>		\n			<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster & Innovation Ecosystem</h2>		\n															<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" />															\n			<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>		\n		<p>To achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:</p><h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4><ul><li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong> <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.  In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>  </li><li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.  Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li></ul><h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4><p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li><li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li><li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </strong></li></ul><h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4><p>Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li><li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li></ul>		\n			<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>		\n		<p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:</p><ul><li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li></ul>','About This Initiative','','inherit','closed','closed','','286-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:35:32','2022-01-04 20:35:32','',286,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1569',0,'revision','',0),(1570,1,'2022-01-04 20:35:32','2022-01-04 20:35:32','<h1>About This Initiative</h1>		\n			<h2>VISION</h2>		\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia will be a global leader in innovative technologies, products, and services that help residential, commercial, and industrial properties adapt to flooding, erosion, and other challenges caused by sea-level rise.</h2>		\n		<p>Increased flooding and high value residential, commercial, and industrial assets in vulnerable urban, suburban and rural coastal communities are growing market demand for new, cost-effective adaptation solutions. Virginia has a competitive advantage – it is experiencing flooding and erosion impacts from the highest level of relative sea-level rise on the east coast thus it is developing innovative adaptation technologies, products, and services with global applications. Growing a water adaptation economy is a priority in the GO Virginia Region 6 <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia6.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Growth-Diverisfication-Plan-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth &amp; Diversification Plan</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan</a></strong>, and the Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/articles/service_centers/Economic%20Development/MPPDC%20CEDS%20update%20-%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy</a></strong> (CEDS), and aligns with the Economic Development Authority\'s (EDA) equity, recovery &amp; resilience, workforce development, technology-based economic development, and environmentally-sustainable development priorities.</p>		\n			<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>		\n		<p><strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”</p>		\n			<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster & Innovation Ecosystem</h2>		\n															<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" />															\n			<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>		\n		<p>To achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:</p><h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4><ul><li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong> <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.  In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>  </li><li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.  Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li></ul><h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4><p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li><li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li><li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </strong></li></ul><h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4><p>Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li><li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li></ul>		\n			<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>		\n		<p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:</p><ul><li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li></ul>','About This Initiative','','inherit','closed','closed','','286-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:35:32','2022-01-04 20:35:32','',286,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1570',0,'revision','',0),(1571,1,'2022-01-04 20:37:08','2022-01-04 20:37:08','<h1>About This Initiative</h1>		\n			<h2>VISION</h2>		\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia will be a global leader in innovative technologies, products, and services that help residential, commercial, and industrial properties adapt to flooding, erosion, and other challenges caused by sea-level rise.</h2>		\n		<p>Increased flooding and high value residential, commercial, and industrial assets in vulnerable urban, suburban and rural coastal communities are growing market demand for new, cost-effective adaptation solutions. Virginia has a competitive advantage – it is experiencing flooding and erosion impacts from the highest level of relative sea-level rise on the east coast thus it is developing innovative adaptation technologies, products, and services with global applications. Growing a water adaptation economy is a priority in the GO Virginia Region 6 <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia6.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Growth-Diverisfication-Plan-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth &amp; Diversification Plan</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan</a></strong>, and the Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/articles/service_centers/Economic%20Development/MPPDC%20CEDS%20update%20-%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy</a></strong> (CEDS), and aligns with the Economic Development Authority\'s (EDA) equity, recovery &amp; resilience, workforce development, technology-based economic development, and environmentally-sustainable development priorities.</p>		\n			<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>		\n		<p><strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”</p>		\n			<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster & Innovation Ecosystem</h2>		\n															<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" />															\n			<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>		\n		<p>To achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:</p><h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4><ul><li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong> <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.  In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>  </li><li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.  Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li></ul><h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4><p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li><li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li><li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </strong></li></ul><h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4><p>Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li><li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li></ul>		\n			<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>		\n		<p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:</p><ul><li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li></ul>','About This Initiative','','inherit','closed','closed','','286-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:37:08','2022-01-04 20:37:08','',286,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1571',0,'revision','',0),(1572,1,'2022-01-04 20:37:08','2022-01-04 20:37:08','<h1>About This Initiative</h1>		\n			<h2>VISION</h2>		\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia will be a global leader in innovative technologies, products, and services that help residential, commercial, and industrial properties adapt to flooding, erosion, and other challenges caused by sea-level rise.</h2>		\n		<p>Increased flooding and high value residential, commercial, and industrial assets in vulnerable urban, suburban and rural coastal communities are growing market demand for new, cost-effective adaptation solutions. Virginia has a competitive advantage – it is experiencing flooding and erosion impacts from the highest level of relative sea-level rise on the east coast thus it is developing innovative adaptation technologies, products, and services with global applications. Growing a water adaptation economy is a priority in the GO Virginia Region 6 <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia6.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Growth-Diverisfication-Plan-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth &amp; Diversification Plan</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan</a></strong>, and the Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/articles/service_centers/Economic%20Development/MPPDC%20CEDS%20update%20-%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy</a></strong> (CEDS), and aligns with the Economic Development Authority\'s (EDA) equity, recovery &amp; resilience, workforce development, technology-based economic development, and environmentally-sustainable development priorities.</p>		\n			<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>		\n		<p><strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”</p>		\n			<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster & Innovation Ecosystem</h2>		\n															<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" />															\n			<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>		\n		<p>To achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:</p><h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4><ul><li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong> <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.  In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>  </li><li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.  Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li></ul><h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4><p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li><li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li><li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </strong></li></ul><h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4><p>Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li><li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li></ul>		\n			<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>		\n		<p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:</p><ul><li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li></ul>','About This Initiative','','inherit','closed','closed','','286-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:37:08','2022-01-04 20:37:08','',286,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1572',0,'revision','',0),(1573,1,'2022-01-04 20:37:08','2022-01-04 20:37:08','<h1>About This Initiative</h1>		\n			<h2>VISION</h2>		\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia will be a global leader in innovative technologies, products, and services that help residential, commercial, and industrial properties adapt to flooding, erosion, and other challenges caused by sea-level rise.</h2>		\n		<p>Increased flooding and high value residential, commercial, and industrial assets in vulnerable urban, suburban and rural coastal communities are growing market demand for new, cost-effective adaptation solutions. Virginia has a competitive advantage – it is experiencing flooding and erosion impacts from the highest level of relative sea-level rise on the east coast thus it is developing innovative adaptation technologies, products, and services with global applications. Growing a water adaptation economy is a priority in the GO Virginia Region 6 <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia6.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Growth-Diverisfication-Plan-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth &amp; Diversification Plan</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan</a></strong>, and the Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/articles/service_centers/Economic%20Development/MPPDC%20CEDS%20update%20-%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy</a></strong> (CEDS), and aligns with the Economic Development Authority\'s (EDA) equity, recovery &amp; resilience, workforce development, technology-based economic development, and environmentally-sustainable development priorities.</p>		\n			<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>		\n		<p><strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”</p>		\n			<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster & Innovation Ecosystem</h2>		\n															<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" />															\n			<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>		\n		<p>To achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:</p><h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4><ul><li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong> <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.  In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>  </li><li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.  Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li></ul><h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4><p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li><li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li><li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </strong></li></ul><h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4><p>Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li><li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li></ul>		\n			<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>		\n		<p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:</p><ul><li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li></ul>','About This Initiative','','inherit','closed','closed','','286-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:37:08','2022-01-04 20:37:08','',286,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1573',0,'revision','',0),(1574,1,'2022-01-04 20:37:52','2022-01-04 20:37:52','<h1>About This Initiative</h1>		\n			<h2>VISION</h2>		\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia will be a global leader in innovative technologies, products, and services that help residential, commercial, and industrial properties adapt to flooding, erosion, and other challenges caused by sea-level rise.</h2>		\n		<p>Increased flooding and high value residential, commercial, and industrial assets in vulnerable urban, suburban and rural coastal communities are growing market demand for new, cost-effective adaptation solutions. Virginia has a competitive advantage – it is experiencing flooding and erosion impacts from the highest level of relative sea-level rise on the east coast thus it is developing innovative adaptation technologies, products, and services with global applications. Growing a water adaptation economy is a priority in the GO Virginia Region 6 <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia6.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Growth-Diverisfication-Plan-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth &amp; Diversification Plan</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan</a></strong>, and the Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/articles/service_centers/Economic%20Development/MPPDC%20CEDS%20update%20-%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy</a></strong> (CEDS), and aligns with the Economic Development Authority\'s (EDA) equity, recovery &amp; resilience, workforce development, technology-based economic development, and environmentally-sustainable development priorities.</p>		\n			<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>		\n		<p><strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”</p>		\n			<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster & Innovation Ecosystem</h2>		\n															<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" />															\n			<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>		\n		<p>To achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:</p><h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4><ul><li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong> <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.  In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>  </li><li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.  Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li></ul><h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4><p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li><li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li><li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </strong></li></ul><h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4><p>Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li><li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li></ul>		\n			<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>		\n		<p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:</p><ul><li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li></ul>','About This Initiative','','inherit','closed','closed','','286-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:37:52','2022-01-04 20:37:52','',286,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1574',0,'revision','',0),(1575,1,'2022-01-04 20:37:52','2022-01-04 20:37:52','<h1>About This Initiative</h1>		\n			<h2>VISION</h2>		\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia will be a global leader in innovative technologies, products, and services that help residential, commercial, and industrial properties adapt to flooding, erosion, and other challenges caused by sea-level rise.</h2>		\n		<p>Increased flooding and high value residential, commercial, and industrial assets in vulnerable urban, suburban and rural coastal communities are growing market demand for new, cost-effective adaptation solutions. Virginia has a competitive advantage – it is experiencing flooding and erosion impacts from the highest level of relative sea-level rise on the east coast thus it is developing innovative adaptation technologies, products, and services with global applications. Growing a water adaptation economy is a priority in the GO Virginia Region 6 <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia6.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Growth-Diverisfication-Plan-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth &amp; Diversification Plan</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan</a></strong>, and the Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/articles/service_centers/Economic%20Development/MPPDC%20CEDS%20update%20-%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy</a></strong> (CEDS), and aligns with the Economic Development Authority\'s (EDA) equity, recovery &amp; resilience, workforce development, technology-based economic development, and environmentally-sustainable development priorities.</p>		\n			<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>		\n		<p><strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”</p>		\n			<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster & Innovation Ecosystem</h2>		\n															<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" />															\n			<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>		\n		<p>To achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:</p><h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4><ul><li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong> <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.  In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>  </li><li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.  Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li></ul><h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4><p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li><li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li><li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </strong></li></ul><h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4><p>Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li><li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li></ul>		\n			<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>		\n		<p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:</p><ul><li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li></ul>','About This Initiative','','inherit','closed','closed','','286-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:37:52','2022-01-04 20:37:52','',286,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1575',0,'revision','',0),(1576,1,'2022-01-04 20:37:52','2022-01-04 20:37:52','<h1>About This Initiative</h1>		\n			<h2>VISION</h2>		\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia will be a global leader in innovative technologies, products, and services that help residential, commercial, and industrial properties adapt to flooding, erosion, and other challenges caused by sea-level rise.</h2>		\n		<p>Increased flooding and high value residential, commercial, and industrial assets in vulnerable urban, suburban and rural coastal communities are growing market demand for new, cost-effective adaptation solutions. Virginia has a competitive advantage – it is experiencing flooding and erosion impacts from the highest level of relative sea-level rise on the east coast thus it is developing innovative adaptation technologies, products, and services with global applications. Growing a water adaptation economy is a priority in the GO Virginia Region 6 <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia6.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Growth-Diverisfication-Plan-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth &amp; Diversification Plan</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan</a></strong>, and the Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/articles/service_centers/Economic%20Development/MPPDC%20CEDS%20update%20-%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy</a></strong> (CEDS), and aligns with the Economic Development Authority\'s (EDA) equity, recovery &amp; resilience, workforce development, technology-based economic development, and environmentally-sustainable development priorities.</p>		\n			<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>		\n		<p><strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”</p>		\n			<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster & Innovation Ecosystem</h2>		\n															<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" />															\n			<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>		\n		<p>To achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:</p><h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4><ul><li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong> <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.  In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>  </li><li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.  Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li></ul><h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4><p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li><li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li><li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </strong></li></ul><h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4><p>Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li><li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li></ul>		\n			<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>		\n		<p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:</p><ul><li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li></ul>','About This Initiative','','inherit','closed','closed','','286-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:37:52','2022-01-04 20:37:52','',286,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1576',0,'revision','',0),(1580,1,'2022-01-04 20:56:53','2022-01-04 20:56:53','<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:56:53','2022-01-04 20:56:53','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1580',0,'revision','',0),(1578,1,'2022-01-04 20:56:52','2022-01-04 20:56:52','<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:56:52','2022-01-04 20:56:52','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1578',0,'revision','',0),(1579,1,'2022-01-04 20:56:52','2022-01-04 20:56:52','<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-04 20:56:52','2022-01-04 20:56:52','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1579',0,'revision','',0),(1590,1,'2022-01-13 21:09:18','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','','draft','closed','closed','','','','','2022-01-13 21:09:18','2022-01-13 21:09:18','',0,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?post_type=elementor-hf&#038;p=1590',0,'elementor-hf','',0),(1823,1,'2022-01-27 21:21:13','2022-01-27 21:21:13','<style>/*! elementor - v3.5.3 - 28-12-2021 */\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}</style><h6>VIRGINIA SEA GRANT PARTNER UNIVERSITIES</h6>		\n			<style>/*! 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Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. 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Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. 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Leveraging funding from <b>GO Virginia</b> and VASG’s federal funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), we anticipate making approximately five awards. University teams will provide collaborative R&amp;D support (e.g., assessing the impact of adaptation and resilience interventions on coastal properties, product performance validation, product development) to business winners of an ongoing GO Virginia-funded coastal rural Resilience Challenge announcement concerning: Flood Management; Protection of Buildings and Property; and Water Quality Management.</p><p><b><i>Important dates:</i></b></p><p>• Submit Statement of Interests &amp; Qualifications: <b>March 31, 2022</b> </p><p>• Requests for additional information in order to match university capacity with business and water adaptation, resilience and innovation needs: April, 2022</p><p>• Submit requested information: late April/early May, 2022.</p><p>• Project start dates summer/fall, 2022.</p><p><b><i>For more information </i></b></p><p>Contact Sabine Rogers, <b>sarogers@vaseasgrant.org</b>, or Troy Hartley, <b>thartley@vaseagrant.org. </b></p>		\n			<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>		\n		<p><strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”</p>		\n			<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster & Innovation Ecosystem</h2>		\n			<style>/*! elementor - v3.5.5 - 03-02-2022 */\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}</style>												<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" />															\n			<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>		\n		<p>To achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:</p><h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4><ul><li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong> <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.  In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>  </li><li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.  Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li></ul><h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4><p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li><li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li><li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> </strong></li></ul><h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4><p>Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.</p><ul><li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li><li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li></ul>		\n			<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>		\n		<p>Addressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:</p><ul><li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li><li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li></ul>','1M Collaborative Research Challenge','','inherit','closed','closed','','1861-revision-v1','','','2022-02-16 15:35:54','2022-02-16 15:35:54','',1861,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1869',0,'revision','',0),(1862,1,'2022-02-16 14:24:33','2022-02-16 14:24:33','{\"version\": 2, \"isGlobalStylesUserThemeJSON\": true }','Custom Styles','','publish','closed','closed','','wp-global-styles-astra','','','2022-02-16 14:24:33','2022-02-16 14:24:33','',0,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-global-styles-astra/',0,'wp_global_styles','',0),(1863,1,'2022-02-16 14:57:08','2022-02-16 14:57:08','<h1>About This Initiative</h1>\n<h2>VISION</h2>\n<h2>Coastal Virginia will be a global leader in innovative technologies, products, and services that help residential, commercial, and industrial properties adapt to flooding, erosion, and other challenges caused by sea-level rise.</h2>\nIncreased flooding and high value residential, commercial, and industrial assets in vulnerable urban, suburban and rural coastal communities are growing market demand for new, cost-effective adaptation solutions. Virginia has a competitive advantage – it is experiencing flooding and erosion impacts from the highest level of relative sea-level rise on the east coast thus it is developing innovative adaptation technologies, products, and services with global applications. Growing a water adaptation economy is a priority in the GO Virginia Region 6 <strong><a href=\"https://govirginia6.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-Growth-Diverisfication-Plan-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth &amp; Diversification Plan</a></strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/wp-content/uploads/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan</a></strong>, and the Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/articles/service_centers/Economic%20Development/MPPDC%20CEDS%20update%20-%202021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy</a></strong> (CEDS), and aligns with the Economic Development Authority\'s (EDA) equity, recovery &amp; resilience, workforce development, technology-based economic development, and environmentally-sustainable development priorities.\n<h3>In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties.</h3>\n<strong>Assets needing adaptation:</strong> Waterfront properties remain in high demand and were estimated to be worth $134B nationwide in 2018. Home sales in coastal Virginia increased 61% on the Chesapeake Bay between 2019 – 2020, and over 20% more from January – April 2021. In their most recent property tax assessment, rural Mathews County, VA recorded a loss of $75M in property value caused by flooding and erosion on waterfront properties. Businesses are impacted too; coastal shoreline counties support 37% of US jobs and contribute 46% of the GDP. Coastal Virginia is home to a growing $53M shellfish aquaculture industry and working waterfronts employ over 122,000 people, generating $8.5B of the GDP. All existing water-related infrastructure (a $650B global market) and all sectors of the shoreline economy will need to adapt, greatly increasing market demand for cost-effective adaptation technologies, products, and services.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.vasem.org/reports/2021-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-virginias-coastal-areas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine report</a></strong> on the impacts of climate change concluded, “significant innovation will be required to…mitigate the impacts that coastal regions are already experiencing and are likely to experience in the future. Virginia could become a national center of expertise and innovation in this regard.”\n<h2>Water Adaptation Industry Cluster &amp; Innovation Ecosystem</h2>\n<img width=\"1650\" height=\"553\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic.jpg 1650w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-300x101.jpg 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1024x343.jpg 1024w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-768x257.jpg 768w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EcosystemGraphic-1536x515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\">\n<h1>Advancing Feasible Adaptation Solutions</h1>\nTo achieve this vision, several projects are underway through collaborations among multiple partners, including:\n<h4><strong>Supporting Entrepreneurs</strong></h4>\n<ul>\n 	<li><strong>GO Virginia:</strong> The Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Economy initiative that will foster innovation and growth in Virginia’s water economy. The project will launch a resilience entrepreneurship competition and establish a business-focused network to engage businesses and facilitate resilient practices. The project is a collaboration between&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, the nonprofit<strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RISE</a></strong>, the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https://www.mppdc.com/index.php/service-centers/coastal/paa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</a></strong>, and&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https://odu.edu/\">Old Dominion University</a></strong>. The $2.9M project was funded in part by&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia</a></strong>, a state-funded initiative administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to strengthen and diversify Virginia’s economy and foster the creation of higher-wage jobs in strategic industries.&nbsp; In addition to the workforce development supported by VASG and RISE’s business plan competition, ODU is leading the development of the <strong><a href=\"https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/1/flood_preparedness#.YdRvYBPMJqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coastal Virginia Consortium.</a></strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>\n 	<li>The Middle Peninsula’s <strong><a href=\"https://fightthefloodva.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fight-the-Flood (FTF)</a> </strong>program to subsidize shoreline protection businesses’ work on coastal properties. FTF is a first in the nation approach to advance feasible adaption solutions for property owners in underserved communities.&nbsp; Among the twenty-four companies in the FTF program, there are cooperative arrangements, collaborative projects, and a need for research &amp; development (R&amp;D) capacity to further advance innovation.</li>\n</ul>\n<h4><strong>Collaborative R&amp;D</strong></h4>\nAddressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach in order to achieve novel breakthroughs requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into innovative outcomes that transcend individual disciplines.\n<ul>\n 	<li><strong>VASG—Virginia Tech</strong> partnership for a resilience design extension faculty position. This position will play a critical role, as a project coordinator and facilitator, of VASG’s GO Virginia award, and the design and implementation of collaborative public-private R&amp;D partnerships on the network of field stations.</li>\n 	<li><strong>Sea Grant-CERF</strong> (Coastal Estuarine Research Federation) <strong><a href=\"https://cerfcompetition.vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Competition</a></strong>, a forward-facing initiative to inspire students and faculty across disciplines to work together in proposing design solutions and innovative strategies to make our coastal environments more resilient in the face of coastal impacts of climate change. The Design Competition is also intended as a complementary way in which CERF can collaborate with local communities to problem-solve together around pressing challenges. The Design Competition will focus on a specific site in Coastal Virginia on which all design proposals must focus.</li>\n 	<li><strong>VASG’s NSF-funded team science training</strong> is designing, testing, and implementing capacity-building training for effective team science, effectively integrating diverse knowledge and perspectives. The deeper level of knowledge integration achieves innovative outcomes, and is facilitated by <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/nsf-award-team-science-training-coastal-ocean-estuarine-stem-graduate-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VASG’s training</a></strong> in visualization tactics, managing constructive conflict, effective cross-disciplinary communication and listening, and advanced taskwork and teamwork skills.<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&nbsp;</strong></li>\n</ul>\n<h4><strong>Workforce Development</strong></h4>\nCollectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific and skill-focused education.\n<ul>\n 	<li><strong>VASG and <a href=\"https://www.rappahannock.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappahannock Community College</a></strong> are offering Work-Based Learning apprenticeships with water resilience and adaptation businesses, including winners of the GO Virginia business competition administered by RISE. Coupled with professional certification programs supported by non-profits and university entrepreneurship training, technician-level training and partnerships with businesses can form the backbone of the emerging water adaptation industry cluster’s workforce.</li>\n 	<li><strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wetlands Watch</a></strong>, <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Sea Grant</a></strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http://www.usgbc.org/usgbc-hampton-roads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Building Council, Hampton Roads Chapter</a></strong> have joined forces to establish an adaptation research and design collaborative, linking research and education programs at Virginia universities with local governments to help implement resilient interventions. This collaborative resilience laboratory - or <strong><a href=\"https://wetlandswatch.org/design-collaboratory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Collaboratory\"</a></strong> - aims to produce innovative adaptation tools, strategies, and designs in tidewater Virginia by linking academic community programs with real-world needs in coastal communities, helping speed adaptation, and incubating a community of practice.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Upgrading Virginia\'s Water Adaptation Workforce</h2>\nAddressing property adaptation from a holistic, systems approach requires collaborative skills and competencies to integrate diverse knowledge and perspectives into novel, innovative outcomes. Collectively, Virginia’s community college system, universities, and professional certification programs provide outstanding discipline-specific or skill-focused education. However, collaborative teamwork skills are less prevalent; e.g., architectural and engineering firms have partnered with VASG to co-sponsor workforce development initiatives in part to advance students’ teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge integration skills. Coupled with entrepreneurship, design thinking, and other creativity- and innovation-deriving curricula, Virginia could have the best-trained workforce for the emerging water adaptation economy. Options would include:\n<ul>\n 	<li><strong>Offering <em>community college</em> Work-Based Learning, apprenticeships, and, as appropriate, associate degrees or certifications for technician-level training and partnerships with businesses.</strong></li>\n 	<li><strong>Support for university <em>undergraduate and graduate</em> work on adaptation R&amp;D, including entrepreneurship training to accompany technical expertise and collaborative research with industry partners, p</strong><strong>roduct performance validation, and co-production of new knowledge.</strong></li>\n 	<li><strong>Support for NGOs conducting certification training</strong></li>\n</ul>','1M Collaborative Research Challenge','','inherit','closed','closed','','1861-revision-v1','','','2022-02-16 14:57:08','2022-02-16 14:57:08','',1861,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1863',0,'revision','',0),(1612,1,'2022-01-13 22:36:30','2022-01-13 22:36:30','<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-13 22:36:30','2022-01-13 22:36:30','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1612',0,'revision','',0),(1613,1,'2022-01-13 22:36:30','2022-01-13 22:36:30','<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-13 22:36:30','2022-01-13 22:36:30','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1613',0,'revision','',0),(1614,1,'2022-01-13 22:36:30','2022-01-13 22:36:30','<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-13 22:36:30','2022-01-13 22:36:30','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1614',0,'revision','',0),(1619,1,'2022-01-14 17:58:58','2022-01-14 17:58:58','<h6>VIRGINIA SEA GRANT PARTNER UNIVERSITIES</h6>		\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GMU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ODU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/UVA2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VCU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VIMS2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VT2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WM-1.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-14 17:58:58','2022-01-14 17:58:58','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1619',0,'revision','',0),(1617,1,'2022-01-14 17:58:58','2022-01-14 17:58:58','<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-14 17:58:58','2022-01-14 17:58:58','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1617',0,'revision','',0),(1618,1,'2022-01-14 17:58:58','2022-01-14 17:58:58','<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-14 17:58:58','2022-01-14 17:58:58','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1618',0,'revision','',0),(1624,1,'2022-01-14 18:06:30','2022-01-14 18:06:30','<h6>VIRGINIA SEA GRANT PARTNER UNIVERSITIES</h6>		\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GMU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ODU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/UVA2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VCU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VIMS2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VT2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WM-1.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-14 18:06:30','2022-01-14 18:06:30','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1624',0,'revision','',0),(1622,1,'2022-01-14 18:06:29','2022-01-14 18:06:29','<h6>VIRGINIA SEA GRANT PARTNER UNIVERSITIES</h6>		\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GMU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ODU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/UVA2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VCU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VIMS2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VT2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WM-1.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-14 18:06:29','2022-01-14 18:06:29','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1622',0,'revision','',0),(1623,1,'2022-01-14 18:06:29','2022-01-14 18:06:29','<h6>VIRGINIA SEA GRANT PARTNER UNIVERSITIES</h6>		\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GMU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ODU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/UVA2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VCU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VIMS2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VT2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WM-1.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-14 18:06:29','2022-01-14 18:06:29','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1623',0,'revision','',0),(1625,1,'2022-01-14 18:16:17','2022-01-14 18:16:17','<h6>VIRGINIA SEA GRANT PARTNER UNIVERSITIES</h6>		\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GMU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ODU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/UVA2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VCU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VIMS2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VT2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WM-1.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-14 18:16:17','2022-01-14 18:16:17','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1625',0,'revision','',0),(1626,1,'2022-01-14 18:16:17','2022-01-14 18:16:17','<h6>VIRGINIA SEA GRANT PARTNER UNIVERSITIES</h6>		\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GMU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ODU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/UVA2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VCU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VIMS2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VT2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WM-1.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-14 18:16:17','2022-01-14 18:16:17','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1626',0,'revision','',0),(1627,1,'2022-01-14 18:16:18','2022-01-14 18:16:18','<h6>VIRGINIA SEA GRANT PARTNER UNIVERSITIES</h6>		\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GMU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ODU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/UVA2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VCU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VIMS2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VT2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WM-1.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-14 18:16:18','2022-01-14 18:16:18','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1627',0,'revision','',0),(1631,1,'2022-01-14 18:28:56','2022-01-14 18:28:56','<h6>VIRGINIA SEA GRANT PARTNER UNIVERSITIES</h6>		\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GMU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ODU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/UVA2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VCU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VIMS2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VT2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WM-1.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-14 18:28:56','2022-01-14 18:28:56','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1631',0,'revision','',0),(1629,1,'2022-01-14 18:28:55','2022-01-14 18:28:55','<h6>VIRGINIA SEA GRANT PARTNER UNIVERSITIES</h6>		\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GMU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ODU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/UVA2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VCU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VIMS2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VT2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WM-1.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-14 18:28:55','2022-01-14 18:28:55','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1629',0,'revision','',0),(1630,1,'2022-01-14 18:28:55','2022-01-14 18:28:55','<h6>VIRGINIA SEA GRANT PARTNER UNIVERSITIES</h6>		\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GMU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ODU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/UVA2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VCU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VIMS2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VT2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WM-1.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-14 18:28:55','2022-01-14 18:28:55','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1630',0,'revision','',0),(2195,1,'2022-06-16 17:54:50','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','Auto Draft','','auto-draft','','','','','','','2022-06-16 17:54:50','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=2195',0,'post','',0),(1861,1,'2022-02-16 17:14:53','2022-02-16 17:14:53','<style>/*! elementor - v3.6.5 - 27-04-2022 */\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}</style><h1>rural coastal community resilience</h1>		\n			<h2>$1M Collaborative Research Challenge</h2>		\n			<h4>Collaborative research Challenge Partners</h4>		\n			<style>/*! elementor - v3.6.5 - 27-04-2022 */\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}</style>									<figure>\n											<a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n							<img width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersVASG.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersVASG.png 500w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersVASG-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" />								</a>\n											<figcaption>Virginia <br>Sea Grant</figcaption>\n										</figure>\n												<figure>\n											<a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n							<img width=\"600\" height=\"203\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Copy-of-horiz-logo-color-dark-bSMALL.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Copy-of-horiz-logo-color-dark-bSMALL.png 600w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Copy-of-horiz-logo-color-dark-bSMALL-300x102.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" />								</a>\n											<figcaption>RISE Resilience<br>Innovations</figcaption>\n										</figure>\n												<figure>\n											<a href=\"https://vacoastalwilds.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n							<img width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersMPCBPAA.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersMPCBPAA.png 500w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PartnersMPCBPAA-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" />								</a>\n											<figcaption>Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority</figcaption>\n										</figure>\n												<figure>\n											<a href=\"https://govirginia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n							<img width=\"900\" height=\"254\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/logo.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/logo.png 900w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/logo-300x85.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/logo-768x217.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" />								</a>\n											<figcaption>GO <br>Virginia</figcaption>\n										</figure>\n			<h2>FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT</h2>		\n			<h4>SUMMARY</h4>		\n		<p>Virginia Sea Grant (VASG) announces the availability of <strong>$1M for collaborative research on water adaptation and resilience-enhancing innovations</strong>. Leveraging funding from GO Virginia and VASG’s federal funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), we anticipate making approximately five awards.</p><p>University teams will provide collaborative R&amp;D support— assessing the impact of adaptation and resilience interventions on coastal properties, product performance validation, product development—to winning businesses of the ongoing GO Virginia-funded <a href=\"https://riseresilience.org/rural-resilience-challenge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Rural Coastal Community Resilience $1.5M Challenge</strong></a> addressing flood management, protection of buildings and property, and water quality management.</p><h4><b>Important dates:</b></h4><ul><li>Submit Statement of Interests &amp; Qualifications: <b>March 31, 2022</b> </li><li>Requests for additional information in order to match university capacity with business and water adaptation, resilience and innovation needs: <strong>April, 2022</strong></li><li>Submit requested information: <strong>late April/early May, 2022</strong></li><li>Project start dates: <strong>summer/fall, 2022</strong></li></ul><h4><b>For more information:</b></h4><p>Contact Sabine Rogers, <a href=\"mailto:sarogers@vaseasgrant.org\"><b>sarogers@vaseasgrant.org</b></a>, or Troy Hartley, <b><a href=\"mailto:thartley@vaseagrant.org\">thartley@vaseagrant.org</a>. </b></p>		\n			<a role=\"button\">\n						Application Period is closed\n					</a>\n			<h2>IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS</h2>		\n			<style>/*! 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In addition to the $1M for universities to participate in collaborative R&amp;D, VASG has funding to further scope and design the codification of the field stations into an R&amp;D network and the design of a collaborative R&amp;D hub facility in the coastal region. To further assess university needs and opportunities with this capacity, Clark Nexsen is assisting in the scoping exercise and the webinars. Dates for the webinars are:</p>https://youtu.be/YD4_JkY850E		\n			<h2>March 2, 2022 </h2>		\n		https://youtu.be/SQYVX4Um2gA		\n			<h2>March 15, 2022 </h2>		\n			<h3>Businesses will design and build or implement their products, services and other innovative approaches to enhance resilience on the publicly-owned, waterfront properties on the PAA. Universities will be conducting their collaborative research with the private sector on these properties.</h3>		\n			<h2>adaptation and resilience capacity</h2>		\n		<p>This call seeks university capacity to partner with the private sector, collaborate on R&amp;D, assess both the impact the innovation had on improving adaptation and resilience of a coastal waterfront property and validate the full extent of the business products’ performance, and potentially work directly with the company on product development. The SIQs should speak to both the university’s interests and experience in collaborative research (e.g., research partnerships with the private, public or non-profit sectors, product development) and the capacity (human resources, facilities, programs and expertise, policies, etc.) to conduct the specific research on flood management, protection of buildings and properties, and water quality maintenance in a coastal rural context. It is anticipated that business winners will be addressing one or more of the following topics:</p><ul><li><b>RURAL COASTAL FLOOD MANAGEMENT</b></li><li><strong>PROTECTION OF RURAL COASTAL BUILDINGS AND PROPERTY</strong></li><li><strong>RURAL COASTAL WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT</strong></li></ul><p>While we are interested in hearing from applicants with interests and qualifications in all the areas of the business challenge, we particularly need qualifications that can assess performance of property-scale interventions and the resilience impact on properties and communities (e.g., longer duration of property viability, mitigation of erosion or flood damage, etc.) relative to:</p><ul><li><strong>Beneficial use and applications of dredge materials</strong></li><li><strong>Nutrient removal strategies from rural storm and wastewater</strong></li><li><strong>Nature-based shoreline stabilization</strong></li><li><strong>Building designs for living with more water</strong></li></ul><p>Detailed information about these topics can be found on the <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Statement_of_Interest_and_Qualifications.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Statement of Interest &amp; Qualifications Funding Announcement</strong></a>.</p>		\n			<h1>FUNDING AND ELIGIBILITY</h1>		\n		<h4><strong>ELIGIBILITY</strong></h4><p>All institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth of Virginia are eligible.</p><h4><strong>FUNDING</strong></h4><p>The Statements of Interests &amp; Qualifications (SIQ) is the first step in identifying Virginia universities’ interests and capacity to participate in collaborative research with the private sector to improve coastal adaptation and resilience products and services. The SIQ will be used to match capacity with needs and invite additional, more detailed information relative to the particular needs of business challenge grant winners. Sub-awards will be made from Virginia Sea Grant. While the final funding level will be dependent upon the specific business need, VASG anticipates awards of approximately <strong>$200,000-$250,000</strong>. There is no match requirement.</p>		\n			<h2>HOW TO APPLY</h2>		\n		<h4><em><strong>Submit Statement of Interests &amp; Qualifications</strong></em></h4><p>By <strong>March 31, 2022 at 11:59 PM</strong>, upload and submit a statement of interests and qualifications as a single PDF, through your eSeaGrant account. There is no limit to the number of Statements an individual or an institution can submit.</p><ol><li>Create an eSeaGrant account at <strong><a href=\"http://vaseagrant.ecsion.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http://vaseagrant.ecsion.com</a></strong>. We strongly encourage you to create an eSeaGrant account several days prior to the deadline in order to trouble-shoot any problems with VASG staff and ensure smooth upload of the Statement of Interests &amp; Qualifications.</li><li>On the eSeaGrant website, select the “Register” tab, and complete the required information – name, affiliation, email address.</li><li>If you do not receive a “welcome” email with login credentials shortly after creating an account, please check your junk mail folder. You can contact Sam Lake at VASG (<a href=\"mailto:sjlake@vaseagrant.org\"><strong>sjlake@vaseagrant.org</strong></a>), if you have not received an email.</li></ol><h4><em><strong>Submit Project Narrative</strong></em></h4><p>Compiled into a single PDF, limited to 8-pages each, excluding the 2-page CVs or resumés of key personnel. Include hyperlinks to web-sites or other resources, as appropriate. <strong>No budgetary information is required at this time.</strong></p><p>Detailed narrative format instructions can be found on the <a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Statement_of_Interest_and_Qualifications.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Statement of Interest &amp; Qualifications Funding Announcement</strong></a>.</p>		\n			<a href=\"http://vaseagrant.ecsion.com/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener\">\n						Application Period is Closed\n					</a>\n			<h6>VIRGINIA SEA GRANT PARTNER UNIVERSITIES</h6>		\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GMU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ODU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/UVA2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VCU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VIMS2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VT2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WM2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />','1M Collaborative Research Challenge','','publish','closed','closed','','1m-collaborative-research-challenge','','','2022-05-10 17:07:07','2022-05-10 17:07:07','',0,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?page_id=1861',0,'page','',0),(1633,1,'2022-01-14 18:32:28','2022-01-14 18:32:28','<h6>VIRGINIA SEA GRANT PARTNER UNIVERSITIES</h6>		\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GMU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ODU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/UVA2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VCU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VIMS2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VT2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WM-1.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-14 18:32:28','2022-01-14 18:32:28','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1633',0,'revision','',0),(1634,1,'2022-01-14 18:32:29','2022-01-14 18:32:29','<h6>VIRGINIA SEA GRANT PARTNER UNIVERSITIES</h6>		\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GMU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ODU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/UVA2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VCU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VIMS2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VT2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WM-1.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-14 18:32:29','2022-01-14 18:32:29','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1634',0,'revision','',0),(1635,1,'2022-01-14 18:32:29','2022-01-14 18:32:29','<h6>VIRGINIA SEA GRANT PARTNER UNIVERSITIES</h6>		\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GMU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ODU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/UVA2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VCU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VIMS2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VT2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WM-1.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-14 18:32:29','2022-01-14 18:32:29','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1635',0,'revision','',0),(1636,1,'2022-01-14 18:34:44','2022-01-14 18:34:44','','WM2','','inherit','','closed','','wm2','','','2022-01-14 18:34:44','2022-01-14 18:34:44','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WM2.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1637,1,'2022-01-14 18:34:52','2022-01-14 18:34:52','<h6>VIRGINIA SEA GRANT PARTNER UNIVERSITIES</h6>		\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GMU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ODU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/UVA2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VCU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VIMS2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VT2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WM-1.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-14 18:34:52','2022-01-14 18:34:52','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1637',0,'revision','',0),(1638,1,'2022-01-14 18:34:53','2022-01-14 18:34:53','<h6>VIRGINIA SEA GRANT PARTNER UNIVERSITIES</h6>		\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GMU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ODU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/UVA2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VCU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VIMS2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VT2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WM-1.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-14 18:34:53','2022-01-14 18:34:53','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1638',0,'revision','',0),(1639,1,'2022-01-14 18:34:53','2022-01-14 18:34:53','<h6>VIRGINIA SEA GRANT PARTNER UNIVERSITIES</h6>		\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GMU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ODU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/UVA2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VCU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VIMS2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VT2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WM2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-14 18:34:53','2022-01-14 18:34:53','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1639',0,'revision','',0),(1644,1,'2022-01-14 18:52:51','2022-01-14 18:52:51','<h6>VIRGINIA SEA GRANT PARTNER UNIVERSITIES</h6>		\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GMU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ODU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/UVA2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VCU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VIMS2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VT2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WM2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-14 18:52:51','2022-01-14 18:52:51','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1644',0,'revision','',0),(1642,1,'2022-01-14 18:52:50','2022-01-14 18:52:50','<h6>VIRGINIA SEA GRANT PARTNER UNIVERSITIES</h6>		\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GMU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ODU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/UVA2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VCU2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VIMS2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VT2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"175\" height=\"73\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WM2.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" />															\n															<img width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White.png 400w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/VASG_Stacked_White-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />															\n															<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-300x300.png 300w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING-150x150.png 150w, https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/paa_transparent_WHITE_RING.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" />															\n			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		\n			<h1>Water Adaptation & Innovation Coalition</h1>		\n			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		\n			<a href=\"#HomeScroll\">\n						</a>\n			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		\n		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		\n			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		\n		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity to:</p>		\n		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		\n		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		\n		<p>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		\n		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		\n			<h2>Driving innovation</h2>		\n		<p>The development of an adaptation and innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href=\"https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction, and implementation of:</p>		\n		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		\n		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		\n		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		\n		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</p>		\n		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		\n			<a href=\"https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/about/\" role=\"button\">\n						READ MORE\n					</a>','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','7-revision-v1','','','2022-01-14 18:52:50','2022-01-14 18:52:50','',7,'https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/?p=1642',0,'revision','',0),