Welcome!

Welcome to the Storymap that explains BOEM’s Marine Sensitivity Toolkit.

Simply scroll down to continue. You can always zoom, pan and click on the map as you go.

Scores by Cell

Let’s start by looking at the overall scores. Note that:

  • The study area is the entire EEZ (exclusive economic zone) of the United States, including Alaska, Hawaii and the US territories (Puerto Rico and Pacific Island Territories).
  • The values range from 0 to 89 (blue to red), per the legend in the lower right.
  • The cells are 0.05° decimal degrees, or roughly 4 km (average of 5 km in the lower 48 states, and 3.2 km in Alaska).

Scores by Planning Area

Alternatively, you can view by BOEM Planning Area, which aggregates the cell scores to the planning area level.

In the rest of the Storymap, we’ll learn how these scores get calculated…