COASTAL VULNERABILITY INDEX (CVI)
• Differentiates relative exposure to erosion and inundation during storm events.• Accounts for biodiversity's individual or combined role in buffering wave energy.

Northernmost WETFEET field site,
featuring the “Big Mama” mangrove
Taking measurements of belowground biomass
in a WETFEET control plot
Aerial view of experimental warming chambers at
NMAT, southernmost WETFEET site
Tidal creek and marsh vegetation at the NMAT field site
HOBO device continually measures temperatures at WETFEET mangrove warming plots
Early development (circa 1953) of Conch Island,
Anastasia State Park, and St. Augustine Inlet
The WETFEET Project CVI is collaboration between
Villanova University and GTM NERR