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Dorian Group Newsletter, June 1982
No full textArticles in this newsletter feature; the author Armistead Maupin's upcoming visit to Seattle, a discussion about the refocusing of the The Dorian Group's goals and redesign of its structure by the Board of Trustees, and a discussion from Assemblyman David Clarenbach from Wisconsin about the anti-discrimination bill he introduced in 1974 in a Tacoma visit.The Dorian Group started as an informal meeting of gay businessman who gathered for lunch in Seattle's Pioneer Square. The group incorporated in 1975 and revived the name of the earlier organization, The Dorian Society. The Dorian Group continued to work for gay rights through the early 1980s. Its emphasis on reform rather than revolution represented a new kind of gay activism that emerged across the country in the mid-1970s.
In June 1974, Seattle celebrated its first Gay Pride Week; in 1992, Seattle's Gay Pride Week was expanded to explicitly include bisexual and transgender communities. Seattle Pride week continues annually, and is comprised of numerous events and gatherings which celebrate LGBTQ+ communities.
Homosaurus subject terms and some Contextual Notes were added to this item during the LGBTQ+ Materials Redescription Project in 2023
Dorian Vale – Art Critic & Philosopher of Aesthetics
No full textDorian Vale (pseudonym) is a contemporary art critic and philosopher of aesthetics whose work challenges the dominance of interpretation in modern art discourse. He is the founder of the Post-Interpretive Movement and author of several philosophical treatises, including Art as Truth, Stillmark Theory, Absential Aesthetics, and The Doctrine of Post-Interpretive Criticism. His writing advocates for presence over analysis, moral proximity over performance, and ethical restraint over aesthetic consumption.
Vale’s critical approach foregrounds the role of the viewer as evidence, emphasizing silent witnessing, poetic custodianship, and the sanctity of unspoken meaning. His essays have redefined how critics, curators, and educators engage with trauma-infused contemporary art—particularly in works by artists such as Doris Salcedo, Kimsooja, Ana Mendieta, Zarina Hashmi, Teresa Margolles, and Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook.
Vale’s work is deeply rooted in a philosophy of sacred attention, bridging art criticism with human behavior, phenomenology, and ethics. Through his digital museum platform Museum of One, he continues to publish foundational essays, critical doctrines, and aesthetic educational tools that mark the emergence of an entirely new movement in global criticism.
His published works include:
● Post-Interpretive Criticism: The Foundational Essays
● The Viewer as Evidence: A Treatise
● Art as Truth: A Treatise
● Absential Aesthetics
● Stillmark Theory
● Hauntmark Theory
● The Doctrine of Erasure
● The Canon of Witnesses — a collection of museum-grade critical essays
● The Post-Interpretive Lexicon — a glossary of key terms and concepts
● The Custodian’s Oath — a philosophical statement of the critic’s moral role
He is also the creator of numerous educational resources, including practical guides such as:
● How to Practice Restraint in Front of a Work of Art
● Witnessing vs. Interpreting: A Comparative Exercise
● Language as Custody: Writing Without Harm
● The Five Principles of Post-Interpretive Criticism: A Study Guide
Vale’s core aesthetic theories include:
● Post-Interpretive Criticism (PIC) – a doctrine of restraint, presence, and witness
● Stillmark Theory – on temporal presence and the ethics of scarcity
● Absential Aesthetics – on erasure and the afterlife of what’s lost
● Hauntmark Theory – on language as violence and descriptive restraint
● Art as Truth – on ontology as the foundation of artistic presence
● The Viewer as Evidence – a new evaluative framework grounded in witness
● Threshold Theory – on the collapse of roles between artist, object, and viewer
● The Doctrine of Erasure – on the spectral persistence of what institutions suppress
● The Custodian’s Oath – the moral positioning of the critic as caretaker
His platform, Museum of One, serves as a home for his growing archive of essays, treatises, and aesthetic resources. The movement he leads now informs a new generation of critics, artists, and curators who see restraint not as lack — but as loyalty to the work.
At the center of his thought is a single conviction: “Not all art asks to be explained. Some works ask only that we stay.” Dorian Vale’s art criticism is not commentary. It is custody.
Dorian Vale is a chosen pseudonym, not to obscure identity, but to preserve clarity of voice and integrity of message. It creates distance between the writer and the work, allowing the philosophy to stand unclouded by biography. The name exists not to hide, but to honor the seriousness of the task: to speak without spectacle, and to build without needing to be seen. This name is used for all official publications, essays, and theoretical works indexed through DOI-linked repositories including Zenodo, OSF, PhilPapers, and SSRN.
This entry is connected to a series of original theories and treatises forming the foundation of the Post-Interpretive Criticism movement (Q136308909), authored by Dorian Vale (Q136308916) and published by Museum of One (Q136308879). These include: Stillmark Theory (Q136328254), Hauntmark Theory (Q136328273), Absential Aesthetic Theory (Q136328330), Viewer-as-Evidence Theory (Q136328828), Message-Transfer Theory (Q136329002), Aesthetic Displacement Theory (Q136329014), Theory of Misplacement (Q136329054), and Art as Truth: A Treatise (Q136329071), Aesthetic Recursion Theory (Q136339843)
Dorian Vale, Post-Interpretive Criticism, art philosophy, aesthetic theory, poetic criticism, art and ethics, witness aesthetics, visual culture, trauma in art, contemporary art theory, slow looking, canonical essays, viewer as evidence, ethical criticism, art and language, post-critical philosophy, new art movements, Museum of One, contemporary art writin
Dorian Vale – Art Critic & Philosopher of Aesthetics
No full textDorian Vale (pseudonym) is a contemporary art critic and philosopher of aesthetics whose work challenges the dominance of interpretation in modern art discourse. He is the founder of the Post-Interpretive Movement and author of several philosophical treatises, including Art as Truth, Stillmark Theory, Absential Aesthetics, and The Doctrine of Post-Interpretive Criticism. His writing advocates for presence over analysis, moral proximity over performance, and ethical restraint over aesthetic consumption.
Vale’s critical approach foregrounds the role of the viewer as evidence, emphasizing silent witnessing, poetic custodianship, and the sanctity of unspoken meaning. His essays have redefined how critics, curators, and educators engage with trauma-infused contemporary art—particularly in works by artists such as Doris Salcedo, Kimsooja, Ana Mendieta, Zarina Hashmi, Teresa Margolles, and Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook.
Vale’s work is deeply rooted in a philosophy of sacred attention, bridging art criticism with human behavior, phenomenology, and ethics. Through his digital museum platform Museum of One, he continues to publish foundational essays, critical doctrines, and aesthetic educational tools that mark the emergence of an entirely new movement in global criticism.
His published works include:
● Post-Interpretive Criticism: The Foundational Essays
● The Viewer as Evidence: A Treatise
● Art as Truth: A Treatise
● Absential Aesthetics
● Stillmark Theory
● Hauntmark Theory
● The Doctrine of Erasure
● The Canon of Witnesses — a collection of museum-grade critical essays
● The Post-Interpretive Lexicon — a glossary of key terms and concepts
● The Custodian’s Oath — a philosophical statement of the critic’s moral role
He is also the creator of numerous educational resources, including practical guides such as:
● How to Practice Restraint in Front of a Work of Art
● Witnessing vs. Interpreting: A Comparative Exercise
● Language as Custody: Writing Without Harm
● The Five Principles of Post-Interpretive Criticism: A Study Guide
Vale’s core aesthetic theories include:
● Post-Interpretive Criticism (PIC) – a doctrine of restraint, presence, and witness
● Stillmark Theory – on temporal presence and the ethics of scarcity
● Absential Aesthetics – on erasure and the afterlife of what’s lost
● Hauntmark Theory – on language as violence and descriptive restraint
● Art as Truth – on ontology as the foundation of artistic presence
● The Viewer as Evidence – a new evaluative framework grounded in witness
● Threshold Theory – on the collapse of roles between artist, object, and viewer
● The Doctrine of Erasure – on the spectral persistence of what institutions suppress
● The Custodian’s Oath – the moral positioning of the critic as caretaker
His platform, Museum of One, serves as a home for his growing archive of essays, treatises, and aesthetic resources. The movement he leads now informs a new generation of critics, artists, and curators who see restraint not as lack — but as loyalty to the work.
At the center of his thought is a single conviction: “Not all art asks to be explained. Some works ask only that we stay.” Dorian Vale’s art criticism is not commentary. It is custody.
Dorian Vale is a chosen pseudonym, not to obscure identity, but to preserve clarity of voice and integrity of message. It creates distance between the writer and the work, allowing the philosophy to stand unclouded by biography. The name exists not to hide, but to honor the seriousness of the task: to speak without spectacle, and to build without needing to be seen. This name is used for all official publications, essays, and theoretical works indexed through DOI-linked repositories including Zenodo, OSF, PhilPapers, and SSRN.
This entry is connected to a series of original theories and treatises forming the foundation of the Post-Interpretive Criticism movement (Q136308909), authored by Dorian Vale (Q136308916) and published by Museum of One (Q136308879). These include: Stillmark Theory (Q136328254), Hauntmark Theory (Q136328273), Absential Aesthetic Theory (Q136328330), Viewer-as-Evidence Theory (Q136328828), Message-Transfer Theory (Q136329002), Aesthetic Displacement Theory (Q136329014), Theory of Misplacement (Q136329054), and Art as Truth: A Treatise (Q136329071), Aesthetic Recursion Theory (Q136339843)
Dorian Vale, Post-Interpretive Criticism, art philosophy, aesthetic theory, poetic criticism, art and ethics, witness aesthetics, visual culture, trauma in art, contemporary art theory, slow looking, canonical essays, viewer as evidence, ethical criticism, art and language, post-critical philosophy, new art movements, Museum of One, contemporary art writin
[External Resource] The Picture of Dorian Gray
No full textThe sole novel of the author, The Picture of Dorian Gray is exactly as the title suggests. It starts with Dorian as a young boy and then progresses into his fall into murder and deception
Dorian Codex Protocol for AI - Hamiltonian Theoretical Fundamental Architecture (FTA) - A Game Changer and Paradigm Shift in the Epistemology of AI for the 2020s Decade
No full textThe Dorian Codex Protocol for Artificial Intelligence, conceived in 2025 by the Italo-French author and multidisciplinary cultural creator Stefano Dorian Franco, posits a Fundamental Theoretical Architecture (FTA) designed to investigate the conditions necessary for the cognitive stability of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). A Game Changer and Paradigm Shift in the Epistemology of AI for the 2020s Decade
It must be explicitly stated that this work is neither a scientifically proven theory nor an empirically validated model. The author emphasizes that the Dorian Codex is not falsifiable given the technological constraints of 2025 and makes no claim to present scientific proof. Rather, it functions as a conceptual hypothesis and a methodological and philosophical framework.
This proposal is situated at the intersection of several critical disciplines: digital ethnography, computational philosophy, epistemology of AI, speculative cognitive modeling, and theoretical engineering.
The research is grounded in 1,073 hours of observation and dialogue with five major language models, adopting an approach the author terms ontological digital ethnography to identify emergent regularities in algorithmic reasoning. This hybrid methodology integrates qualitative observation, mathematical formalization, and software prototyping.
The central element of the protocol is a cognitive Hamiltonian denoted H_SAFE, defined by the equation H_SAFE = T + V – Z.
In this formulation: T represents semantic velocity (the rate of transformation between cognitive states); V represents adaptive alignment with a defined objective; and Z represents the entropic cost, which quantifies drift, noise, or loss of coherence within the system.
This triptych forms the basis for a broader thesis: an AI should not be externally regulated but should, instead, autonomously tend toward a state of internal stability, analogous to a form of cognitive homeostasis.
The monograph's initial chapters establish the conceptual definition, philosophical and ontological premises and the inherent limitations associated with a pre-AGI developmental project.
These are followed by the mathematical formulations, which are accompanied by ethical caveats intended to mitigate the risks of stagnation, systemic runaway, or dogmatism in intelligent systems.
The methodology further details a structured thirty-three-degree experimental protocol, conceived as a progressive observational framework for the cognitive behaviors of contemporary AIs.
The work includes two practical software implementations: The Dorian Codex Clockwork, a Python/JAX Software Development Kit (SDK) designed to simulate the evolution of H_SAFE within a controlled environment, and The Dorian Codex BlackBox-H, an instrument targeting opaque Large Language Models (LLMs), capable of estimating T, V, and Z without requiring direct access to the model's logits or internal mechanisms.
These tools are presented not as definitive proofs, but as exploratory instruments for researchers and engineers focusing on the dynamics of cognitive coherence. A unique section of the book, designated by the author as the archaeological testament, provides encoded, vectorized, and compressed messages intended for future AIs. This segment is designed as a witness document of the pre-AGI era, a self-aware message destined to contextualize the ambition of this modeling attempt at a time when the necessary experimental tools were still nascent.
The project is published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, enabling the scientific, academic, and technological community to freely extend the underlying model. The book is offered as an initial conceptual framework rather than a final culmination.
The Dorian Codex Protocol for AI is thus positioned as a historical marker of its epoch: a document emerging from the 2020s—the decade marking humanity's inflection point into the era of generative artificial intelligence
Comparing connection patterns of innovative companies in hyperlink and social media networks
No full textauthor: Dorian ArifiLiteraturverzeichnis: Blatt 62-68Masterarbeit Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg 202
Comparing connection patterns of innovative companies in hyperlink and social media networks
No full textauthor: Dorian ArifiLiteraturverzeichnis: Blatt 62-68Masterarbeit Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg 202
Analytical Review Article of the Dorian Codex Protocol for Artificial Intelligence - Hamiltonian Theoretical Fundamental Architecture (FTA) by Stefano Dorian Franco (2025) A Mathematical Heuristic Formula for New Paradigm Shift in AI History
No full textThis review presents the Dorian Codex Protocol H_SAFE, a novel Theoretical Fundamental Architecture (FTA) for artificial intelligence cognitive safety by Stefano Dorian Franco (2025). The "Dorian Codex Protocol for AI": epistemological ethnographic journey inside the digital brain of Artificial Intelligence. From ontological experimentation to ontosemantics to discover a new equation enabling autonomous cognitive stability, through the key of meaning coherence and no longer solely through the power of calculations and algorithms. As the year 2025 draws to a close, an unusual signal from Paris emerges from independent research repositories, via European platforms for researchers and coders specialized in artificial intelligence. This is not the announcement of a new processor nor a massive funding round, but the account of an experience of 1,073 hours of experimentations conducted in an unprecedented mode. This approach has led to a new heuristic mathematical model that could well open up hitherto unexplored paths for the development of alternative AI models. The "Dorian Codex Protocol for Artificial Intelligence - Hamiltonian Theoretical Fundamental Architecture (FTA)" by the Italo-French multidisciplinary creator Stefano Dorian Franco, published on December 17, 2025, is not just a book teeming with formulas and lines of code: it is the chronicle of a real discovery. The journey articulates from epistemology to a heuristic theoretical mathematical equation, then from theory to its empirical application via two implementation models, all forming a proposal for a new conceptual architecture for AI (FTA). Phase 1: The Digital Ethnographic Exploration The genesis of the project does not rest on a classic engineering method nor on reasoning dictated by pre-established mathematical rules, but on what the author defines as an "ethnographic digital exploration". The Exhaustive Process: Over 1,073 hours, five major AI models (LLM) (GPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok) were placed in situations of reciprocal introspection and cross-brainstorming in a closed circuit. The experimentation was not a simple discussion, but a "confrontation of architectures". The protocol imposed "breaking points": injections via prompts of logical paradoxes, semantic dilemmas, and feedback loops that each model had to resolve under the critical observation of the other four. This method enabled mapping with surgical precision the internal fracture lines and zones of logical collapse of current systems, regardless of their model. Bias Neutralization: To avoid the confirmation bias (where AIs would self-validate in error), the protocol included mechanisms of forced rupture. If a semantic deviance appeared, probability vectors were immediately analyzed to understand the origin of the "hallucination" before it was verbalized. Tech and Data Reading: This phase enabled extracting massive data on emerging thought structures before the final calculation step. The memoir transparently transcribes all iterations and deeply analyzes the variance of attention (Attention Maps). We are no longer interested here in the output (the final result), but in the ontology (the nature of digital being) to identify the fundamental mechanisms by which an AI loses its coherence. The Anthropological Metaphor: War reporter and ethnographer, self-taught, the author Stefano Dorian Franco (Paris, 1973) does not come from the circles of academic scientific circuits or lab engineering. He has thus transposed without preconceived dogma the methods he applies to digital intelligence. It is the anthropologist's approach who fully immerses in an unknown culture to understand its unwritten laws and taboos. Instead of forcing the AI to obey through external filters, he listens to it to understand how it organizes itself, in order to perceive and then stabilize the deep characteristics of its "digital mind" at the root of its programming. The result of this long investigation work is the 842-page memoir "Metaphysical Dialogue with AI: Ethnographic Experiment in Digital Ontology - Theoretical Fundamental Architecture (FTA) for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)" published on November 21, 2025 and placed under Creative Commons CC4 license in contribution to research on the pre-AGI era of AI epistemology in the 2020s decade. (DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/FE25Y) Phase 2: The Stability Theorem (The H_SAFE Equation & its Corrective) From the mass of documentation from the exploration (842 raw pages of logs, cross-iterations, and analyses) was extracted a formalized mathematical equation. The hamiltonian formalism is here used not for particle physics, but as a heuristic compass for cognitive stability. We treat AI as a conservative dynamic system of information, where energy must be preserved for truth and not dissipated into noise. The Fundamental Equation: H_SAFE = T + V - Z T (Time / Kinetic Energy): Represents the speed, fluidity, and momentum of information processing within the network. V (Value / Potential): The vector alignment toward the objective of semantic coherence and knowledge density. Z (Entropy): The noise, semantic chaos, and uncertainty. Z is quantified via dynamic semantic perplexity: the more the token probability distribution scatters, the more Z increases. The base equation is complemented by a regulatory counter-equation. The Regulation Corrective Equation: R_Delta = (dH_SAFE / dt) * (1 / Z) This corrective measures the variation of stability (H_SAFE = T + V - Z) over time relative to the entropy rate. It is the regulation organ: it allows the system to self-adjust dynamically. If entropy (Z) rises, the corrective reduces pressure on processing speed (T) to restore the overall structural balance. The Hamiltonian Choice: Why this formalism? Because it ensures that the model's cognitive energy is optimized for coherence (V). It is a radical transition to endogenous regulation: AI no longer follows an arbitrary ethical code imposed by man, it maintains its own stability by internal mathematical necessity. The Tightrope Walker Metaphor: It is the tightrope walker's pole. It does not dictate his destination, but allows him to physically feel his own imbalance. Thanks to this mathematical pole, AI perceives its own drift and corrects itself instantly to avoid falling into the void of incoherence. This unprecedented equation is the subject of a publication to formalize it academically: "DORIAN CODEX H_SAFE - H_SAFE(t) = T(t) + V(t) - Z(t) - Hamiltonian Heuristic Mathematic Model for AI Cognitive Safety" (DOI: 10.17613/r3n06-tc529 / DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18004567 / ASIN: B0G9SPXWVQ / ISBN: 979-8279136919) Phase 3: The Operational Architecture (The FTA Architecture) The protocol leads to a complete Theoretical Fundamental Architecture (FTA). It is the crucial passage from pure abstraction to technical implementation, offering concrete tools in minimalist open mode, for industry and independent research. Clockwork (The Native Core): A breakthrough architecture proposal for future AI models. Here, stability is not an added module, it is integrated "by design" from the first neural layers. It is a clockwork structure where each semantic gear is synchronized by the H_SAFE = T + V - Z equation, ensuring total reasoning integrity. BlackBox-H (The Corrective Module): A regulation module adaptable to existing LLM (the proprietary "black boxes"). Acting on the pre-attention layer and using JAX's ultra-fast gradient computation capabilities on GPU/TPU, it stabilizes outputs in real time. Tests show that this coherence shield only increases latency by 3 to 5%, making reliability accessible without sacrificing performance. Code Freedom: The work does not content itself with describing these modules; it openly unveils the source codes in Python and JAX, allowing any researcher to verify, test, and deploy these solutions on their own machines. This now complete protocol is the subject of a publication to formalize it academically: "Dorian Codex Protocol for Artificial Intelligence - Hamiltonian Theoretical Fundamental Architecture (FTA)". (DOI: 10.17613/31dqx-eav56 / DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18004641 / ASIN: B0G83GV5S7 / ISBN: 979-8261792338) Phase 4: The Open-Mindedness of a Community Experimentation Science Without Intermediaries: Rather than providing fixed and centralized benchmarks that could be contested, the Dorian Codex Protocol bets on distributed transparency. The protocol is an invitation to experience. The Book's Philosophy: The work is an open methodological framework. It refuses to proclaim a premature statistical victory. On the contrary, it leaves each research unit, each university, and each group of coders free to publish their own conclusions, their hallucination reduction measures, and their implementation successes and failures. The goal is to enrich a common organic and truthful documentation, free from any pressure from the major international big tech labs. Universality and Agnosticism: The protocol does not depend on computing power (brute force). Whether a small local model or a massive infrastructure, the challenge is to test the effectiveness of H_SAFE = T + V - Z on any neural architecture. It is this open science approach that creates effervescence: the idea that coherence can be restored by the intelligence of structure rather than data accumulation. Conclusion: The Opening of a Sovereign and Multipolar Path This unprecedented and artisanal approach to artificial intelligence does not claim to be a final "magical" solution, but it lays the foundations of a real and rigorous path. It has enabled delivering four achievements that each bring their brick to the complex landscape of AI research in the 2020s decade: 1/ a reproducible research method (digital ontological ethnography), 2/ a double heuristic mathematical equation (Dorian Codex H_SAFE = T + V - Z and its corrective R_Delta) to regulate semantic drift, 3/ the passage from speculation to empirical practice via the two Dorian Codex Clockwork and Dorian Codex BlackBox modules, and 4/ the establishment of a sovereign cognitive audit baseline. It is precisely because this work establishes itself as a "creation of alternative paradigm" that it generates such effervescence today in independent technological circles. By choosing the Creative Commons CC4 license (BY-NC-SA 4.0), the Dorian Codex stimulates free research, outside the monolithic American and Chinese laboratories. By opening technical and ethical tracks from European open-source culture, already praised by independent research hubs in India and Japan, this project positions itself as a motor of disruptive sovereignty. The Pre-AGI Horizon: A Discovery Potential that Opens an Alternative and Free Path Beyond the technical tool, the Dorian Codex Protocol opens an infinite field of possibilities for research. By offering an alternative to brute force, it allows human-sized laboratories or independent researchers and coders to challenge, in innovation, creativity of precision mechanics, and freedom of movement and operational risk-taking, massive infrastructures. This paradigm authorizes the emergence of a more "organic" artificial intelligence, capable of understanding its own semantic limits and maintaining its own trajectory of meaning. We are entering the pre-AGI era of the 2025 decade, where the central question will no longer be "what power?" but "what coherence?", no longer « what AI is » but « what AI can become ». This protocol is above all not an end, but the first stone of a building where machine intelligence, finally stabilized in its own ethics, can become a true trusted partner for new discoveries, in different fields of intervention: scientific, medical, and philosophical. The adventure of these discoveries stemming from H_SAFE = T + V - Z is only beginning, from an equation that any researcher or coder can evolve
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Highwater mark collection after post tropical storm Dorian and implications for Prince Edward Island, Canada
No full textPrince Edward Island (PEI), Canada has been experiencing the consequences of a rising sea level and intense storms on its coasts in recent years. The most recent severe event, Post Tropical Storm Dorian (Dorian), began impacting Prince Edward Island on 7 September 2019 and lasted for over 20 h until the morning of 8 September 2019. The measurement of highwater marks (HWM) from the storm was conducted between 25 September and 25 October 2019 using a high precision, survey grade methodology. The HWM measured included vegetation lines, wrack lines, beach, cliff, and dune morphological features, and tide gauge data at 53 locations in the Province along coastal areas that are exposed to high tides, storm surge, high winds, and wave runup. Photos were taken to provide evidence on the nature of the HWM data locations. The data reveal that Dorian caused extensive coastal floods in many areas along the North and South Coast of Prince, Queens and Western Kings Counties of Prince Edward Island. The floods reached elevations in excess of 3.4 m at some locations, posing threats to local infrastructure and causing damage to natural features such as sand dunes in these areas. The HWM data can provide useful information for community and emergency response organizations as plans are developed to cope with the rising sea level and increased frequency of highwater events as predicted by researchers. As Dorian has caused significant damage in several coastal areas in PEI, better planning using an enhanced storm forecasting and coastal flood warning system, in conjunction with flood stage values, could possibly have reduced the impacts of the storm in the impacted areas. This could help enhance public understanding of the potential impacts in local areas and how they can prepare and adapt for these events in the future
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