In the annual update of the University of Notre Dame’s Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) Country Index data sources for some vulnerability indicators have changed, including food dependency and urban concentration. 

A team of researchers at the University of Notre Dame is developing an integrated wave-surge-ice forecast model to more accurately predict coastal water levels, currents, waves, ice and related flood hazards on Alaska’s coastal floodplains.

In the annual update of the University of Notre Dame’s Global Adaptation Initiative Country Index data sources for some vulnerability indicators have changed, including food dependency and urban concentration. 

The University of Notre Dame is currently undertaking precautionary measures in relation to COVID-19; therefore, the faculty and staff of the Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative, including ND-GAIN, are working remotely. Please visit coronavirus.nd.edu…