Madison Rodman

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Professional Title
Resilience Extension Educator

What I do for Sea Grant

As an extension educator my work focuses on strengthening Lake Superior’s coastal communities, economies, and their environments to better prepare for and respond to extreme weather events and changes in climate trends.

Value of what I do for Minnesotans

I help Minnesotans to become more weather and climate resilient by building awareness around changing conditions in and around Lake Superior and Minnesota’s inland waters and by providing resources on how to plan for and adapt to future conditions.

Education

M.S. - Botany and Plant Pathology (concentration in ecology)
Oregon State University
B.S. - Plant Biology
University of Minnesota

Outreach Projects

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Coastal Hazards of Superior Community of Practice

Coastal HAzards of Superior (CHAOS) is a platform for engaging local community leaders, managers, researchers, and communicators with a shared concern about coastal hazards and their impacts. 

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Twin Ports Climate Conversations

Community conversations about climate change.

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Great Lakes One Water (GLOW) Resilient Future

The Great Lakes One Water project brings together a diverse community leadership team focused on equitable access to information and participation in planning and strategies.

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One Block at a Time

The goal of the Minnesota Sea Grant project One Block at a Time is to increase community resilience to climate hazards, particularly the impacts of flooding, in vulnerable frontline communities across the Great Lakes region.

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Code Audits & Community-Government Partnerships

Minnesota Sea Grant seeks to help to build the capacity of Duluth Urban Area communities to develop a framework that allows for and promotes the adoption and installation of green infrastructure that can address water-quality impairments and coastal flooding impacts resulting from extreme storm events through review of local codes and ordinances.