Ever think about how sea level rise will affect Bainbridge Island and what we might do about it? EcoAdapt, with funds from the Bainbridge Community Foundation, is conducting research and building support tools for the Bainbridge Island Community to help foster conversation and awareness about sea level rise, its growing impacts on our community, and how we can respond and adapt as an Island community.

In Winter of 2023, EcoAdapt conducted a community survey  to learn what our friends and neighbors are concerned about with respect to sea level rise and what they see for our future. The purpose of this survey was to start a community conversation about how climate change will affect us and to start generating ideas regarding what we want to do about it. Summary results of the survey are provided here, and you can also find a 2-page downloadable summary below.

In Summer 2023, we conducted a follow-up survey with participants to ask them to rank their preferences for adaptation solutions in categories that were suggested by their peers in the initial survey. We had 124 people respond to our second survey, and a summary of this work is provided below and in a printable format in the products section of this page.

If you are interested in climate change and sea level rise on Bainbridge Island and in Puget Sound, these additional resources might be of interest to you: