Training

Digital Coast Academy offers a wide range of learning resources.

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"This course has provided me a shift in perspective through these techniques. I now approach meetings, encounters, and issues with the conscious intent to facilitate inclusion of perspectives and reaching a solution."

"This training was valuable because I had a chance to network with others, share experiences, brainstorm solutions, and identify opportunities for regional collaborations."

"I learned so much about how the topic is tied to my day to day job - I didn't expect that!"

Provides a thorough introduction to adaptation planning, including practical skills, in-class exercises, and local speakers and discussions

Provides information about coastal flooding data and products with instruction on mapping various inundation extents using a GIS

Introduces green infrastructure concepts and practices, which can play a critical role in making coastal communities more resilient

Provides tools needed to identify and address undesirable impacts from visitor use

Provides the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to design and implement projects with measurable impacts

Increases participants’ ability to plan and facilitate meetings that enhance problem solving and minimize conflict

Helps participants create comprehensive evaluation plans

Introduces participants to a basic approach to influence the way people interact with their environment

Covers the technical aspects of OpenNSPECT, a GIS-based tool used to examine land cover and estimate runoff, nonpoint source pollution, and erosion

Introduces participants to the techniques most useful for effective communication about coastal hazards

Provides an understanding of traditional land-use planning techniques, information about the implementation of alternative land-use principles, and a variety of stakeholder engagement methods

Provides step-by-step instructions for creating and using local flood exposure maps with the Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper

Provides a basic introduction to this easy-to-use visualization software that is often used in project planning, policy making, and communication efforts

Conveys the basic information communities need to understand and address coastal inundation issues

Provides process guidance for teams addressing any of 12 common coastal management challenges

Offers a collection of learning resources for new coastal management program staff members

Provides guidance resources and case studies for implementing smart growth strategies in coastal and waterfront communities

Demonstrates how to use NOAA’s vertical datum tool to convert lidar data to a tidal datum and use ArcGIS to extract a shoreline contour

Steps the user through the process of georeferencing a map or T-sheet in ArcGIS by using an interactive simulation

Provides detailed guidance for GIS analysts looking to incorporate flood-reducing conservation strategies into community planning efforts

Provides the knowledge and skills required to use the Habitat Priority Planner ArcGIS extension to enhance conservation, restoration, and planning processes

Offers step-by-step guidance on how to calculate flood frequency for customized local scenarios, similar to the maps provided in the Sea Level Rise Viewer

Outlines a step-by-step approach to incorporating climate change information into a conservation plan

Outlines strategies for creating virtual meetings that efficiently attain meeting objectives

Provides instructions and resources for designing workshops that gather useful, map-based information from a variety of ocean resource user groups

Demonstrates how land cover data can be used to assess several water quality indicators

Provides a step-by-step process for developing a strategic plan

Introduces basic concepts of lidar and demonstrates how high-accuracy lidar-derived elevation data are used to support natural resource and emergency management in the coastal zone

Provides instruction and guidance for people conducting a needs assessment

Provides guiding checkpoints and interactive practice for determining whether state statutes or regulations would be approved as legally enforceable policies

Provides an introduction to the concepts of these mapping elements with application examples for the Pacific region

Learn about strategies for incorporating stricter floodplain building standards as residents recover from a major storm

Learn how investing in a green infrastructure study helped Toledo, Ohio gain support for green infrastructure with transparent information

Learn how simple, low-impact development projects for controlling stormwater can build local support for natural and sustainable practices

Discover strategies for a living shorelines approach in cold climates from an ecologist's perspective

Discover the approach used to create a model ordinance for St. Tammany Parish that enhanced public safety and community resilience to flood hazards

Learn about one green infrastructure technique that Navy Pier is using to manage stormwater runoff

Learn how Kinston, North Carolina used buyouts and relocations to permanently reduce its flood risk

Find strategies for using post-storm recovery efforts to boost overall community resilience.

Learn how stakeholders are using a collaborative planning process to assess their hazard risks, vulnerabilities, and mitigation opportunities

Learn about the stakeholder engagement and visual approaches used to propel New Jersey towns into hazards resilience planning

Provides communities with key information and resources for moving forward with living shoreline projects in New Jersey

Includes themes and key messages to help planners convey to communities the value of incorporating hazard mitigation in their comprehensive plans

Guides users in selecting monitoring metrics, collecting data, and developing a monitoring plan for coastal wetland restoration and living shoreline projects

Outlines a process for measuring socioeconomic benefits of salt marshes, living shorelines, and oyster reefs

Outlines a process for planning evaluations that can improve any project or program

Outlines six steps to help communities determine costs of flooding and green infrastructure approaches

Provides a review of documents, policies, and staff experiences from three states on valuing ecosystem services

Documents an assessment of climate change impacts on the Mid-Atlantic region and suggestions for addressing those impacts at a state and regional scale

Helps local planners sort through the numerous resources for benchmarking resilience and tracking progress

Presents the national standard for classifying ecosystems and biological communities in estuarine, coastal, and open ocean environments

Examines local data and knowledge that are not reflected in federal data sources used to produce Economics: National Ocean Watch statistics for the U.S. ocean economy

Provides communities with a framework to assess the economic benefits of green infrastructure for reducing flood impacts

Assists resource managers in incorporating ecosystem services into planning and management processes

Evaluates existing messages and identifies key target audiences and tactics to improve risk communication

Outlines technical recommendations for developing shallow-water benthic habitat maps from aerial imagery

Offers a step-by-step approach for incorporating climate change into coastal conservation planning and provides resources to help

Examines the human factors that encourage or deter hazard and resilience planning and what factors might lead to more robust planning

Compiles historical documents relating to various aspects of hurricanes, including planning and response and post-storm assessments

Outlines eight steps to help communities calculate sea level change scenarios and communicate impacts

Guides coastal rebuilding activities with the aim of creating more resilient communities

Introduces key elements and practices that will increase the success of a focus group effort

Describes basic economic concepts and methods and explains how state and local government officials can use them to make better-informed decisions

Describes facilitator roles, planning strategies, and the tools and techniques necessary to deliver results-driven meetings

Discusses some of the most important considerations and offers a guide to the most common techniques

Provides insight into the various types and methods of survey research

Presents national and select state-level coastal recreation and tourism data for California, Florida, Hawaii, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Ohio

Summarizes land cover status in 2010 and land cover changes over the previous decades using maps and graphics

Provides an overview of the data produced by lidar sensors and ways to customize and use these data to inform coastal decisions

Provides step-by-step practice and tips for those charged with developing and mapping marine boundaries

Presents research findings and materials for raising storm surge awareness, including the Potential Storm Surge Flooding map

Provides a basic understanding of parameters, uncertainties, and appropriate uses of model results depicting potential future impacts of sea level rise on coastal wetlands and communities

Examines and visually illustrates the economic contributions of the oceans and Great Lakes

Presents basic demographic status and trends information from 1970 to 2020 for coastal shoreline and watershed counties

Provides tools to gather the information needed to assess the direction and priorities of an organization, and outline the foundational components of a strategic plan

Describe the accuracy of NOAA’s 2010-2011 Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) land cover updates and the methods used to assess that accuracy

Summarize land cover status in 2010 and land cover changes over the previous decade and a half (from 1996 to 2010)

Provides social science information about behavior and communication in the face of coastal hazards

Describes the processes by which various audiences receive, interpret, and use storm surge data

Provides simple strategies for leading a participatory mapping process, focusing primarily on stakeholder involvement

Promotes low impact development, or green infrastructure, to improve water quality, rainwater reuse, and groundwater recharge to better protect tropical island resources

Contains information on hurricane watches and warnings, protective actions from local officials, and meteorological hazards—all to help improve the usefulness of hurricane communications

Outlines the inland significance of California’s marine transportation and ocean tourism sectors

This case study examines how strategically protecting natural lands and open space can reduce damages from flooding and also provide environmental and social benefits

Covers the complexity of behavior in the face of risk and offers best practices for effective risk communication

Focuses primarily on using photorealistic visualizations to convey coastal effects and introduces key concepts surrounding them

Helps community leaders and planners make more economically informed decisions about adapting to sea level rise and storm flooding

Companion workbook that provides the framework to build organizational commitment and guide the development of the strategic plan

Provides a visual and functional description of each tool available on the CanVis software toolbar

Provides a description of land cover classes used within NOAA’s Coastal Change Analysis Program(C-CAP) regional land cover products

Provides a summary of the most common methods for collecting data needed for project or program evaluation

Offers an easy-to-follow format to determine how well existing development policies and regulations support a community’s economic, environmental, and social goals

Provides a list of the 400 coastal counties included in the Economics: National Ocean Watch (ENOW) data set

Provides a list of key techniques facilitators use to lead successful meeting discussions

Provides information and guidance for assessing community climate adaptation options

Offers a handy overview of nature-based solutions used to lessen community flooding

Provides concise information on each of the Habitat Priority Planner tool modules

Provides a worksheet to use when gathering evaluation feedback from meeting participants

Presents easy-to-digest information on shoreline stabilization techniques, including living shorelines

Provides a helpful checklist for leaders who are enlisting people to participate in risk and vulnerability discussions

Provides guidance for facilitators and meeting leaders on creating a productive meeting agenda

Offers a tip sheet of best practices and techniques for risk communication projects

Provides a scoring guide to assess a program’s or project’s readiness for an evaluation

Provides a simple process for identifying stakeholders to involve in a community-wide decision-making process

Offers time-tested strategies for planning and running effective virtual meetings

Describes how to create photorealistic simulations of your project area using CanVis’ extensive icon library, which includes buildings, infrastructure, natural elements (55-minute webinar)

Outlines a process for assessing and reducing community vulnerability to coastal hazards and climate change (26-minute webinar)

Showcases coastal communities that have moved beyond the awareness phase of risk and vulnerability assessments and are developing options for future action (49-minute webinar)

Explores common economic issues faced by the coastal management community and how economic data can be used to tell a compelling story (46-minute webinar)

Examines the economic principles involved when evaluating ecosystem services (3-minute video)

Explains how decisions that make good economic sense may create unexpected consequences (2-minute video)

Explains the factors, such as jobs and wages, that have to be measured and evaluated to understand economic health (3-minute video)

Explains the ocean and Great Lakes economy in everyday terms and shows how this portion of the economy is related to the national economy (2-minute video)

Understand how economists value the tangible and nontangible components of the coast (3-minute video)

Provides information on the role of participatory mapping as a technique for involving stakeholders in coastal management decision-making (27-minute webinar)

Explains the concept of green infrastructure and its coastal storm protection benefits (3-minute video)

Provides information and tools to show how land cover impacts water quality (46-minute webinar)

Introduces the “living shorelines” concept and highlights examples from across the country (57-minute webinar)

Provides key considerations and questions to ask when presented with models and maps estimating coastal wetland impacts from sea level rise (64-minute webinar)

Focuses on the U.S. coastal economy and related international efforts, and ways in which economic data can be used to improve coastal and ocean management (57-minute webinar)

Introduces the U.S. Interagency Elevation Inventory, a comprehensive, nationwide listing of high-accuracy topographic data (30-minute webinar)

Describes the complexity of ocean use planning and how MarineCadastre.gov helps officials evaluate sites for their offshore projects (1-minute video)

Demonstrates how to set up a spatial analysis process for habitation restoration efforts (40-minute webinar)

Explains the threats that come with shallow coastal flooding and shows how communities can best prepare (5-minute video)

Highlights two tools communities can use to assess and reduce coastal flooding vulnerability (3-minute video)

Explains how to prepare for and respond to a tsunami (1-minute video)

Provides information that the public needs to better understand storm surge and the threat it poses to life and property (3-minute video)

Presents a case study from California on using nearshore benthic habitat maps to develop restoration goals (26-minute webinar)

Learn how a national wildlife refuge worked with geospatial analysts to incorporate sea level rise projections into conservation efforts (28-minute webinar)

Provides information on using participatory GIS to capture local knowledge on ocean-use patterns, including the process, data, and lessons learned (56-minute webinar)

Provides an overview of vessel tracking data and tools, and how to apply them to ocean planning (58-minute webinar)

Provides information about storm surge and its impacts (1-minute video)

Demonstrates new features of MarineCadastre.gov and how the website’s components are being used by ocean professionals and re-served to other data portals, saving time and resources (33-minute webi...

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