Before we get started, we are
required to inform all attendees that this session is being recorded.
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to protect your personally identifiable information.
Communication for today session will be via the chat box.
And with that, I'm going to turn it over to Margaret Allen to get us started.
Great.
Thank you, Shannon, and welcome, everyone.
Hi, I'm Margaret Allen with the NOAA Office for Coastal Management
and will be serving as the moderator for our webinar today.
Our webinar is the fifth in a series of webinars
that we have designed for applicants that were invited to submit
a full proposal to the Climate Resilience Regional Challenge.
Like you guys.
Today we're going to explore the Digital Coast website, which is a one stop
shop for
our data tool, learning products, and training opportunities that address
some of the challenging coastal issues out there today
and that you guys are trying to address with your projects.
Today we're going to focus really on the resources on the Digital Coast,
but there are other know what resources out there to explore.
While we won't cover this today, we will follow up with an email
that gives a little more information on the stuff that's covered today
and some more resources that are from NOAA, that are NOAA wide.
So this webinar is being offered again on December 13th from 5 to 6 p.m.
Eastern.
To better meet the time the needs of our West Coast and Pacific applicants.
The same material will be covered there though, in this webinar and that one.
So there's no need to attend both.
You may find examples on today's webinar are more focused
on East Coast, Great Lakes and Gulf Coast kind of areas.
And then the next one will be more focused on West Coast
and Pacific on December 13th.
But the main point is there's no need to attend both of these webinars.
We just wanted to make sure we offer them in a time zone
that way to meeting the needs for all of our applicants.
As we go through the presentation today,
we're going to hold our questions until the end, but feel free
to type questions into the chat throughout the presentation.
We'll get to as many of these as we can
and if your questions not answered or not answered fully here today,
you can come with a question to the ResilienceChallenge@noaa.gov email
and we'll connect you with the right subject matter expert.
Same is true if you come up with a question after today
as you're thinking about this information.
So as we get started this afternoon,
we have a poll question we wanted to put out there for you
to gauge your familiarity with the Digital Coast platform.
So if you will go to the bottom right hand corner of your screen,
you'll see a Triangle square circle
icon.
It just has a little blue dot popped up on there.
If you click that and then click on polls, you'll see the poll question.
And the poll question is how familiar are you with the Digital Coast
and your choices are.
I've used Digital Coast resources, I've checked out the website,
I've heard of it, but never explored it or I've never heard of it.
That'll give our
presenters a little more information about who's attending here today.
So thanks for doing that.
And with that, I would like to introduce our speakers for today
Marian Hanisko and Matt Pendleton, both with the Office for Coastal Management.
Marian, as our Regional Learning Services Coordinator in the Gulf Coast and Matt
is the Regional Geospatial Coordinator for the Southeast and Caribbean.
We have a few other subject matter experts on the call
today, including Tasha Allen, Brett Folger and a few others
that may be helping to answer your questions in the chat.
So if you see them answering questions, you can be assured
these are our official NOAA folks answering your questions.
And so you can
refer to the chat because
you'll be able to get some of your answers, questions answered there.
Other answers that aren’t as easy to put into the chat
we will address verbally at the end of the presentation.
So with that, I will hand it over to Marian
and let her get us started.
Thanks so much, Margaret.
Hey, everyone, I'm Marian Hanisko, as Margaret just introduced me
and I'm going to be one of the presenters
for this afternoon for our dive into the Digital Coast.
I wanted to start out by just sharing a couple of quick
objectives for our hour together, as well as give you a sneak peek at the agenda
and the items that Matt and I plan to cover with all of you.
So for objectives, we hope that as a result of this webinar
that you all will recognize the Digital Coast
as a source of data, tools and training resources that can really support
the Climate Resilience Regional Challenge Funding Opportunity.
And we also
hope that as a result of this webinar, we're helping to increase your comfort
in using the Digital Coast platform and navigating it right.
So increasing your awareness of all the things that the Digital Coast has to offer.
And then in
terms of the agenda like what we plan to cover today, we'll start with a really
quick highlight overview of the Digital Coast platform itself.
Then we'll dive right in and we'll start to explore some data
and some mapping tools that you can use to begin to tell a climate risk story.
And then we'll spend a few minutes taking a tour of some learning products
that supports the Climate Resilience Regional Challenge.
And we're going to try to reserve a few minutes at the very end to answer
any questions
that you might have about the content that Matt and I are covering today.
So I know that Matt and I together are going to be sharing a lot of resources
with you and pretty quickly, and as Margaret mentioned,
we're primarily highlighting resources that are available on the Digital Coast.
And I want you to know that we do plan to follow up with an email that includes
a list of the products that we cover today and links so that you will be able
to explore those at your own pace, at your own time, at your convenience.
And I'm sure you know,
if you have questions as we go, feel free to drop your questions into the chat.
And again, we have that space at the end for a little bit of Q&A.
And then also I think Shannon already chatted a link to one of the primary ways
to contact the team through the Resilience Challenge email address
at ResilienceChallenge@noaa.gov.
So those are ways to get in touch with us to answer your questions.
So now before I actually
transition into an overview of the platform, I wanted to take just a second
to see what some of the responses were
to the poll question that we shared with you.
So if you just joined, you should be able to go to that icon
at the lower right corner that looks like a triangle square circle
and then you should be able to open up the poll.
And there's one question for you.
We're just trying to take the pulse of the familiarity of this audience.
So finding out how familiar you are with the Digital Coast.
So if you haven’t answered that question yet, now's your chance to do so.
And I'm looking at the results coming in live.
It looks like most folks have answered it and we have a nice spread,
a good diversity of answers.
So seven people have said that they've used the Digital Coast resources,
which is wonderful. A few folks, nine,
nine people have indicated that they've checked out the website.
We do have a good contingent who have heard of it,
but they've never explored it.
So ten of you, that was your answer.
And then a couple of you,
seven folks said that they have never heard of the Digital Coast.
So this will be great for helping to increase awareness.
And for those of you who actually are familiar and used it,
hopefully between Matt and myself will maybe share something new that you
haven't seen before or give you, you know, an idea about something
that perhaps you could incorporate into your regional challenge proposal.
So now in thinking about
the Digital Coast itself, so Margaret described it as a one stop shop for data
tools and learning products, and that's how we like to talk about it internally.
And you can access it, you know, from our home page
and this is like a screenshot of our home page, and you can see that
there's a link to the Digital Coast on the right hand side of that page.
So that's one way to access the Digital Coast
and we want you to know that in addition to being a one stop shop for the data
and the tools and the learning products, it's also about people and partnerships.
And this slide gives a nod to a number of the national partnerships
that we have in place
with organizations whose stakeholders use our data, tools and products.
So these organizations really help us keep our finger on the pulse of our audiences
and make sure that the information that we provide here is really needs based
and it's relevant and timely and user friendly and really helps
folks on the ground use this information to make decisions
about challenging coastal management issues.
So wanted to share that with you.
And when you go into the Digital Coast website,
this is what the landing page for the Digital Coast looks like.
There are a number of ways to navigate it.
And Matt and I are going to be explaining,
how you move
around within the Digital Coast as we see our products today.
Primarily you'll want to pay attention to the menu
that's on the left hand side of that home page.
And Matt and I are going to be primarily talking
about the first three icons in that menu bar.
So looking at tools, looking at data and looking at training resources
and together with the planning team behind the webinar today,
we've kind of pulled together a list of products that we hope
will help support some of the priorities of the regional challenge competition.
And at this stage you all know those priorities as well as we do.
But just as a reminder, those priorities have to do with risk
reduction, regional collaboration, equity and enduring capacity.
So we are just going
to scratch the surface of what's available on the Digital Coast in the hour
that we have with you.
We can't possibly cover everything.
So we do hope that you'll take time to do a little bit of exploring on your own.
And again, you know, as we go, remember that we will follow up
with a list of the products that we share today and the links to them
and that you are welcome to drop questions in the chat as we go.
And you're also welcome to follow up
with questions at that regional challenge email address.
So I'm going to actually pause here and turn it over to Matt
because he's going to say a little bit more about the Digital Coast
platform itself, and then he's going to dive right in
to using some of the data and the mapping products.
So, Matt, I'm going to turn to you.
Thank you, Marian, and it's a pleasure to have you all here today and thank you
for joining us to listen a little bit about what Digital Coast has to offer
since one of the objectives of today’s webinar is to increase comfort
exploring the Digital Coast platform and in finding the resources you need,
I'm going to show you some
of our highlighted tools and data that folks have really been successful
at in resilience issues and many other issues along the coast.
So just kind of a broad overview of what I'll be talking about,
just because data we are, you know, widely known as a data
resource, lots of different types of data that can help you.
Over 80 terabytes of high resolution elevation data, land cover data
and ortho imagery used for a variety of purposes
for the GIS users out there, 350 plus web mapping services.
And for you, the folks that don't really use GIS, what that means
and these are map services that you see in our tools and our products
that you can pull into your own maps to make nice applications.
And linkages to over 40 national level coastal datasets.
And these cover all the coast of the nation's coastline.
And once you go in there, you can browse by type, elevation data,
land cover, weather, climate hazards, imagery, socioeconomics and others.
For tools.
We have a lot of tools an inventory of over 50 decision
support and information visualization tools,
a lot of these are really good because for the GIS users out
there, people that don't have the GIS infrastructure
out there, these tools are really good screening level applications
to start your journey into what you're looking for resilience wise.
So no need for software because it's all built in.
And training, which Marian's going to talk about
today, towards the end.
So telling your climate risk story, using the data and maps.
Why is that important?
Why is this project important to your community?
How will it make your community more resilient
and will it help protect people in an equitable way?
Those are some of the questions
you might want to think as we go through this and how it might help you.
The first tool I'd like to talk about the data access viewer.
This is a very popular tool where you can get the raw data
if you want to do the project yourself.
If you're a GIS, user going to the Data Access viewer, this is the landing page
you can select from imagery, land cover, elevation, LIDAR data.
And once you're in the tool, you can toggle between those as well.
But it's a really great resource to get
all kinds of information.
Let's say this is your study area and you want to see LIDAR datasets
spanning over several years to look at how things have changed.
You can go to the imaging tab at the top and see how the imagery has changed over
time, how things are being affected and also land cover.
So it's a great resource for getting that actual dataset.
Another tool is the land cover atlas.
This use of C-CAP, which is the Coastal Change Analysis Program, land cover data,
and there are some really exciting things going on with this tool and the data
in it now.
So this is again a user friendly, no
GIS software required, access to time series data analysis.
So if you see on the right, that's what you would see
when you go into the tool, you select your location,
you can select the county or watershed level, then select a year range.
So for this one to select in 1996 to 2016
to see what the change would be in the land cover,
historically, this product has been
30 meter resolution
except in some areas like the Caribbean,
but where there's been a big push with all the funding
and there's a high risk product coming out very soon,
you can always
check in with us to see when your area is coming.
But that's a drastic change
and it's really going to enhance what you can do at the C-CAP information.
So you can get analysis, outputs, percentages, graphs, charts,
summary reports.
And these are all good things to include in proposals.
This is an example of that change
in a location in Florida increase of developed areas.
We can see that
the percent net increase of developed areas went up 20% over this time frame.
So good to highlight the information and statistics
and have a map for that.
Looking at decrease the forest wetland area.
So you can see over that time period almost 7% decrease of forested areas.
But in that 3% increase of upland forested area.
So lots of good information to include.
So I talked about
that resolution a little earlier, the comparison of that,
that regional product that we've historically had and been collected
many years in the past 30 meter, was really only good enough for a regional
kind of
a regional study.
You couldn't really get fine, granular study with that.
But this 1-meter product that's coming out,
you can see the difference
in what you can see and what you can pull out of that information.
And this is another example of that 30 meter product versus the local one meter.
It's really a game changer in the land cover.
Another good one
to use is the Coastal Flood exposure mapper.
This is a great way to tell your coastal hazard story using maps and maps
that are generated for you to print and share with folks.
So if you go into the coastal flood exposure map
or you can click an area, select an area search by address,
and you'll see on the left side that there are all these little
topics that you can turn on hazard layer, societal exposure.
And there's more I'll get to that.
But this is a really popular one here, this coastal flood hazard composite.
And this highlights all the hazards that a location is facing.
So, in this one particular area,
that high tide flooding, high risk, 1% annual chance
or the 2.2% annual chance, flooding designated by FEMA, storm
surge for category one through Category three hurricanes,
sea level rise, scenario of 1, 2 to 3 feet.
That's a good composite of all the hazards that a certain area is facing.
So, again, back to the layers that you can turn on, we have lots of hazard layers,
societal exposure, looking at density, poverty,
elderly employees.
We also have infrastructure exposure and ecosystem exposure.
So you can turn these on and mash these up into your own maps
for the area of study and
you save a map.
You can save multiple maps,
share that, you can share a collection with folks.
But what it's going to give you is a nice print out map
with a legend describing
exactly what the hazards are there.
So a great resource to use that very easy to use.
And you do not have to need any GIS software for this.
Next, there's another popular tool,
the Sea Level Rise Viewer.
And what that is, is a screen level application.
Most of the areas are a three meter or five meter resolution.
I think we're pretty close to being only three meter resolution mapping.
So you can zoom out, you have a slider bar on the left, you can go up to ten feet.
There's also lots of other functions in the map.
If you click on a location that has a little icon,
you can see these photorealistic simulations
that we do.
These are pretty powerful tools to show people, at that certain level.
As you go up and down with the slider easily,
you'll be able to see what the sea level rise would look like.
What's good about this now is we also have the ability
to build in local sea level rise scenarios.
So not just looking at global levels where everything is on a local level,
you have two options.
View by scenarios from the sea, low rise technical report or you can do by year.
So if you want to look
at an intermediate scenario at 23 or 2100, you could do that.
You can toggle both of these by scenario or year,
to really define and see what the impacts are going to be for your area.
We also have
a vulnerability tab, and this background information
you see there is a social vulnerability index
looking at people that are more affected
and you know,
that would be more impacted
by these events and sea level rise.
I do want to mention that
for our Great Lakes folks, we also have a lake level viewer.
You can choose from any one of the other lakes
and go to it.
And it's a similar product to the sea level rise
viewer, a lot of same functionality and a little bit different
because you can see on the left you can toggle on the records and averages.
So you can see the highest high, lowest low,
the current level of the lake.
And so you can drop that down.
And what this does that the sea level rise viewer doesn't have is the levels.
You can decrease the levels to show
that, that the imagery area is exposed,
you know where you can have exposed dunes and bluff erosion.
And one last tool I like to mention
it's another good reporting tool is the coastal County Snapshots.
This gives you complex data in an easy to understand charts and graphs.
It's a great tool for governing bodies and citizen groups.
You can print these out, take them to meetings to show them.
Right now you can analyze flood exposure, ocean jobs,
wetland benefits, and you get a nice print out with a lot
of the legwork that's already been done for, you know,
statistics, print out, you know, in a nice way.
So I want to pose a question, now that I've talked about some of that.
In the chat, if you have used or you plan to use
the tools that I’ve demonstrated, take a minute.
and tell us how in the chart.
Pause to reflect on that for a minute.
So I see a mention of using the flooding tool in a grant proposal.
It's wonderful.
Do you remember which one it was?
The flood exposure mapper, sea level rise viewer, lake level viewer?
Okay.
Planning to use the tools to show sea level rise, storm surge
and river flood exposure over time and with changes.
Ok, sea level rise fewer in American Samoa.
Thank you.
All right.
Another comment about interest in using the tool to identify neighborhoods
that might be at risk of displacement and relocation throughout the century.
A note about have maybe haven't used the products,
but we might find the maps are useful for grant applications.
Absolutely.
Okay.
In a nod to the flood exposure Mapper and County Snapshots, so plans to use those.
All right.
In the sea level rise viewer, using it often to demonstrate risk
and to help facilitate community discussions.
Good to know about the recent areas
of development map and plan to use that as well.
When analyzing urban heat.
So these are really great examples from the group about how folks are already
using some of the Digital Coast products that have been shared so far.
And even if we haven't used them yet, we're increasing our awareness
that they exist.
And I saw several comments from folks who plan to explore them further and maybe
incorporate them into some upcoming projects, which is great.
So Matt gave us a really nice overview
of a lot of the different data sets that you can find on the Digital Coast.
And he covered a couple of our visualization tools
so I heard about LIDAR, I heard about the new high resolution C-CAP data.
I heard about the flood exposure mapper.
We can use it to create our own maps.
The sea level rise and lake level viewer so we can look at inundation impacts
in our communities and also a nod to county snapshot.
So that's a lot that we've shared already.
And so I just want to remind you again that we are planning
to compile a list of the products that we're sharing
and we'll send that to you all with a link so that you'll be able to go in.
If these products are new to you, you'll be able to explore
a little bit on your own as well.
So this is great.
In addition to using data and visualization tools to help us
think about coastal hazards and hazard
risk, in particular as we embark on
our regional challenge projects, we're probably forming new partnerships.
We probably have project teams, maybe we're working with new communities
and some efforts, and we're thinking about the need to engage new people
and how to do that well, how to talk to people about risk.
So a little bit about risk communication and maybe, you know, looking for tips on
how to collaborate with different people and different groups of people.
So I wanted to let you know that that's where we're transitioning next
in our overview of Digital Coast products.
So we're going to spend a few minutes talking
about the training section of the Digital Coast platform.
Again, I'm only going to be like scratching the surface and, you know,
sharing a couple of highlights of some of our favorite tools that we think
could help address some of the priorities for the regional challenge.
I plan to talk a little bit about risk
communication, social science,
meeting engagement and facilitation, and then I'll also spend
a minute or two talking about nature based solutions, products.
So we have more we have more tools like we have information on climate adaptation
planning, we have tools and products around coastal economics.
So these are just examples of other things of other products
that are available in the digital course that could be helpful to you
as you were embarking on your regional challenge efforts.
And so just encouraging you again to take the time
to explore the Digital Coast, even beyond today's webinar.
And we're always happy to answer questions
you might have about any products that you encounter.
So this slide is intro to the training
page of the Digital Coast platform,
and there are a couple of different ways to navigate it here.
You can click the tab to look at On-Demand Resources,
you can click a tab to look at scheduled trainings,
You can click a tab to look at the course calendar.
That's kind of what's illustrated here on the slide.
You can also search by keyword.
I wanted to share with you that primarily this afternoon I'm
going to be focusing on on-demand resources
because they are free to download
and they're available to anyone and everyone at any time.
I will reference scheduled training.
So we do have trainings that we can deliver either virtually or in person.
And I'll mention that those in a couple of places,
and I want you to keep that in mind
because it's a really good example of technical assistance that you can ask
for from the office for Coastal Management in your Regional Challenge proposal.
So if you hear about
a training opportunity that you're interested in, keep it in mind
as potential technical assistance from our office.
So those are some of the ways to navigate it, you
of course can do a keyword search if you don't have, you know,
a keyword search in mind, you can actually just click
in that rectangle box to find a keyword and it'll bring up a list of filters.
And that's my next slide is showing you that filter.
We're just pretending that we're doing a live demonstration
of the training platform here in the Digital Coast.
So pretend that we're searching, we're doing a filtered search.
And the first thing I want to talk and share with you about is a little bit of
on our risk communication products.
I just pretend that I'm selecting live the risk communication
tab here in the list of filters.
And I wanted to start
with this product called Preparing for Effective Risk Communication.
It's one of our newest products on the Digital Coast.
We know that talking about risks and doing something about them
can be really challenging,
especially when we're working with communities that have competing priorities
and being able to talk about risk in a way that is relevant to our audience
that really, you know, highlights their values and their concerns
and really what matters to them most is a key component of resilience.
And one of the best practices that we encourage
when we're thinking about risk communication is encouraging everyone
to have an informed plan for their risk communication efforts and this product.
So preparing for effective risk communication is a self-guided module
so you can access it and step through it at your leisure, at your own pace.
And it's really great at providing tips and best practices
for how to engage different audiences around risk.
Information gives tips on how to engage people.
So every step of the process from identifying your risk challenge
to identifying your target audience, thinking about what outcome
you want to achieve, like what is the goal of your risk communication, effort,
Understanding what your audience already knows about the topic,
and maybe also what they need to know, and then thinking
through your opportunities to engage them.
Are there some upcoming events that I could go to?
It's important to go to our audiences.
They won't come to us all the time, right?
So maybe there's an event that we would like to offer or
go to think about opportunities to engage our audiences there.
So this, this self-guided module is really great at stepping users through
all those different pieces to help begin to inform a risk communication plan.
We also have a couple of quick references.
They're kind of like worksheets.
One is a risk communication strategy template, which I love
because I can print it out and take it with me to my meeting,
like my team meeting or my community meeting
and I can like fill it in with my project team.
It's really great at providing questions that you can ask your project team
to help develop your strategy or your plan for risk communication.
So again, it's asking you to think about, you know, what your risk communication
challenge is, who your audience is, what they what they might know,
who they might trust
as information providers,
where they might be getting their information,
and where you could go to have a conversation with them.
So really helpful stepping you through all those pieces of your plan.
And then the third product here that's highlighted on this slide is something
called connecting with your audience and planning your next interaction.
Because when we get to the phase of our risk communication plan
where we're thinking about going to have a conversation
with the audience, we need to think through that
because there are likely some logistics associated with that.
Like what kind of event might we be able to engage them in?
Are we putting together
like a booth at a community meeting, are hosting a field trip,
or maybe we're hosting a workshop, maybe we're leading a focus group.
Like there are all sorts of different possibilities and you know,
there are some planning logistics that go along with it and the other thing
that I really love about this particular quick reference is that it gives examples
of different types of engagements with different types of audiences.
So you can read some case study examples about how
professional audiences like Realtors have been engaged
or how volunteer groups have been engaged, or youth groups, for example.
So I think it's a very helpful quick reference
to help with your risk communication plan.
So I want you to keep those three products in mind as you're thinking
about risk communication.
And again,
I'm just like brushing the surface because if you go into that
filtered search in the Digital Coast under risk communication,
you'll probably find closer to like 20 products.
And so
these are just three of our favorites that we wanted to share with you today.
So I'm going to
transition and talk a little bit about social science because,
you know, when I was talking about risk communication, and
thinking about understanding my audience and figuring out what they know
about a risk challenge and what they might need to know,
and you know, how to have a conversation with them about that,
how to ask questions, how
to engage people, in a meeting.
These are starting to get into like some social science methods,
and I might need to brush up on some of those methods
to you feel more comfortable as I'm embarking on these things.
So I wanted to share three social science resources with all of you
that I think are very helpful.
The first is a needs assessment guide overview.
So this again is a great self-guided module.
You can step through, it, walks you through all the different pieces
and parts of conducting and needs assessment.
So again, you'll be prompted to identify
your issue, your target audience, your planning team,
like not forgetting to reach out
and have a planning team here to help you through your needs assessment process.
It'll give you tips and best practices for thinking about your survey instrument
and perhaps piloting your survey instrument.
It has tips on how to administer your survey, how to collect the data,
how to compile all that data.
So the needs assessment guide overview is a really great self-guided module
and it is supplemented by two publications which are also referenced on this slide.
The first is an Intro to Survey Design and Delivery.
So as I'm thinking about needs assessments and trying to figure out
what kinds of questions I might want to ask my audience about their needs
related to a coastal hazard,
I can totally use you know, tips and refreshers on how to design
really good survey questions, and this publication is great at that.
It also gives tips on different ways to administer a survey,
some things to think about.
Am I going to am I going administer an online survey?
Am I going to call people up on the phone?
Am I going to go to an event
and do an in-person survey, or am I going to host a focus group?
You know, there are different ways to collect the information.
And so this particular publication gives tips
and guidelines for all of those things.
And then the third publication here on
the slide is the introduction to conducting focus groups.
So I've talked a little bit about focus groups.
We mention it
as a way that we might want to engage folks, you know, and risk communication.
It's also a great way to collect information for needs assessments,
but it takes a little bit of planning because focus groups are different, right?
You're actually hosting
a meeting at a location, so you need to think about your audience.
And you know what location is convenient for them,
what their needs might be, do they need, you know,
like child care services during this focus group session?
You also have to think about the questions that you're going to ask,
how you're going to capture the data, what you hear from your focus group
participants, and how we analyze it, because focus group data
is a little bit different from an online survey.
For example, it could be more qualitative.
And I just want to say that if you are really excited about social science
and some of these products, we do offer trainings related to social science.
We have a course called Social Science Basics that can be delivered
virtually or in person, and we have like five different modules
and you can pick and choose the module that's of most interest to you.
It covers everything from like understanding your stakeholders to writing
those effective survey questions, how to conduct a focus group and on.
So that is definitely an opportunity again, that would be more of a
technical assistance ask potentially for your regional challenge proposal,
but just wanted to share that opportunity with you as well.
All right.
So we've talked a lot about risk communication
and social science resources that can help with our projects.
And again, you know, as we are looking to bring people together
in meetings and workshops, even in focus groups,
we might want to dust off
our skills around meeting engagement and really, you know, remind ourselves
about some good facilitation techniques that are good to employ to make sure that
our meetings are efficient and effective and that we're achieving our objectives.
So this slide gives a nod to a handout that you can find
on the Digital Coast called Facilitation Techniques.
And if you have ever taken our Facilitation Basics class,
then you will be familiar with some of the strategies
that are highlighted on this particular quick reference.
So it talks about some of our foundational facilitation skills, like staying
neutral, listening actively, asking good follow up questions.
It goes into a little bit of advanced facilitation skills,
like how to synthesize comments, remembering to capture notes
on charts, you know, and in the front of the room so that
your participants feel heard and know that they are heard.
If you're looking for ideas about how to engage people in your meetings,
you can also visit the Digital Coast for tips on activities
that you can incorporate into your meetings and workshops
like icebreaker ideas or listening walks, roving
flip charts, doing an impact to effort grid, administering an exit survey,
you know, at the break or at the end of the day.
So, so many ideas for activities that you can incorporate
into your meetings to help them be engaging.
All right.
I still have one more topic that I wanted to cover with all of you.
So we've talked a lot about some process skills here,
social science and meeting engagement facilitation.
And I wanted to also talk a little bit
about the point in our projects where we're working with our team
and we're actually strategizing some ways that we mitigate risks.
And one of the ways that some folks,
some communities choose to mitigate risks is through nature based solutions.
And the Digital Coast platform has a number of products
that can help us think about nature based solutions.
And one of my favorites is something called
the Green Infrastructure Effectiveness Database, because a question
I hear
all time from partners in my region is you're talking about living shorelines
or maybe oyster reefs or some other type of nature based solution.
The common question is, well, how is it doesn't really work.
So this database actually compiles literature to help answer those questions.
And it's really easy to use.
So this is like a screen grab of the home
page for the Green Infrastructure Effectiveness database.
And you can go in here and fill in as much information as you know,
which for me is usually just
the type of green infrastructure strategy I'm interested in, like that
living shoreline or that coral reef or that oyster reef in my region.
So I'm in the Gulf of Mexico. That's where I always start.
And then I hit the search button and then it brings up
a list of resources that help me figure out
more information about the effectiveness of some of these strategies.
So it will give us like some high level
talking points that we can share with our partners and our teams.
To help us talk more
about the effectiveness of green infrastructure strategies.
And I think one of the new features of the database is that more
economics information
has recently been incorporated, and so there is actually cost benefit
data that's included in this database now, which is exciting.
All right.
And the last thing I wanted to share with you is another self-guided
module focused on nature based solutions for coastal hazards.
It's called the basics.
It's part one of a two part series of products that help us
think about nature based solutions in our communities.
So this one really focuses us on helping communities
think about different types of nature
based solutions and the ecosystem services that there's different
nature based solutions provide that help reduce risk.
So again, it's a self-guided module kind of steps you through that process.
And then if you're really interested in going a step further with your project
team, part two of this series is actually working
together to develop a green infrastructure strategy.
So part two of this is another example
of one of our classes which we can deliver virtually or in person.
So that's again
something that you can keep in your back pocket
and maybe think about requesting as technical assistance
with your regional challenge proposals.
I just wanted to let you know that that too is available
and I didn't even talk about risk communication trainings earlier
when I was talking about all the risk communication products, but we have
trainings related to risk communications as well.
So I know that I have shared a lot.
I've said a lot of things about a lot of different products.
And again, I just want to remind you that we will be sharing a list of the things
that we've talked about and links so that you can explore.
But I'm going to stop talking now and hand it back over to Margaret.
And she is going to wrap this up this afternoon.
And if there are any questions
that have come in through the chat, she's going to help us moderate the questions.
Yeah, great.
Thank you, Marian.
So I hope you guys have learned something from the data
tools and learning products that we've shared today
that possibly can help you with your Regional Challenge project.
I thank you so much, Marian, I know we kind of flew through a lot of that,
but Marian got us excited about some of these tools again.
So I hope she got you excited about them too.
So as we move into questions,
we also wanted to take a moment to have you share in the chat,
something you learned today
on today's webinar, something you look forward to trying.
So if something really piqued your interest
and you think that you might try it or something was really new to you
that you're thinking you might go check out a little more in depth.
If you wouldn't mind sharing in the chat just what some of those things are
so we can hear about what planning to use.
I don't
see any questions currently in the chat.
I did see one that was answered
by Matt already about resolution.
Okay, so if you guys are interested in that, please go ahead
and check that out in the chat.
But I see some sharing things that they plan to use
availability of green infrastructure tools and resources that Marian shared.
More excitement about the Green Infrastructure
Effectiveness database.
So we do have one question.
It looks like it's more geared towards Marian.
Are there any trainings for civic engagement?
Yes, So I was just answering that in the chat.
The one that comes to my mind immediately is our Facilitation Basics class,
which is great for thinking about some of those foundational
and more advanced facilitation skills and some of the activities
that you might want to incorporate into your meeting.
We talk about different types of meetings as well, and so
I definitely think that that could help with civic engagement, meeting, planning.
Right.
Thank you.
It looks like we've got a few more ideas on what folks are excited
to look more into the social science tools that you shared.
Also,
we'll keep questions coming if you have any others.
And I will now switch gears to asking you
if there is anything you heard today or didn't
hear about today that you want to know more about.
So if there are other things
that the question in the chat that you wanted to hear more about or didn't
hear about today
that you'd like to know more about, that you know is a NOAA resource
or something on the Digital Coast, feel free to share those in the chat too.
And remember if you need help with any of these resources,
we have a big team of folks that are subject matter experts on these tools,
on the data and on the training resources
that we have available so we can help with that.
The best way is either the best way is either ask now, or you can send an email
to the ResilienceChallenge@noaa.gov email
that goes to a team that works to kind of
spread those questions throughout the organization to the
relevant subject matter expert
and to get you an answer or to work with you on that.
Once we finish the proposal period and really move into the technical systems
post award, you'll be working essentially much more
with folks on that team also.
Okay, I'm seeing a few more comments about loving to meet and talk about
and think about the Digital Coast for the projects
and some other things.
All right.
Well, if I will keep an eye on if you have any more questions, come through.
If not, I just wanted to mention that this is just one
in a series of webinars we're planning for the competition applicants.
We have the next diving into Digital Coast next week, which I mentioned.
If you're attending this one, it's not really necessary to attend because,
that'll be identical resources shared at that one.
And then we have our final two webinars are going to take place
in January once we're all back from the holidays
and the topics that those will cover are
the Climate Resilience Regional Challenge Fellowship Program.
So we'll talk a little bit more about that program and how you can access
that as an awardee of the of the challenge.
And that's on January 10th and then monitoring
and measuring performance specifically as it relates to these projects
will be our final webinar also in January.
So the dates and times are on the competition’s technical assistance website.
And so you can reference
that site to find out how to log into those.
These diving into the Digital Coast did require registration,
but those final two in January will not.
You can just log on with the link.
So I see one more question
I think Matt may have answered it.
Do the data layers cover the Justice 40 mapping data?
I don't know.
Matt, could you could you answer that?
Are you working on an answer in the chat?
I'm not quite sure on that, but I can look into it.
Okay.
Well, we'll get back to you with an answer on that, or
you can submit it to the ResilienceChallenge@noaa.gov.
And then we'll make sure we do get that question to the right person
who can answer that. Thanks, Matt.
What is the process to
the digital coast data layers for our own analysis
and Matt has answered that in the chat
each tool has a download tab or they can be found on our data page.
So hopefully that answers that question.
And then yes, please feel free to reach directly out to Matt.
Also about the Justice 40 mapping data.
I think those are all the questions for now.
So one final thing for you guys.
We are going to add a link to a very short
survey in the chat regarding today's webinar.
So if you could please take a few minutes to click on that link and provide
some feedback on the information we provided here today
that will give us some data
to work with on when we provide these again
in the future to other partners, how we can make it better and what we can,
what we can do to make it as relevant as we had.
So thank you again for attending today.
The recording of this session will be up on the website within the week
and so feel free to revisit it if there's anything you missed
or wanted to revisit in the recording.
Thanks so much for joining us.
I don't see any more questions, so I'll go ahead and adjourn
and thank you guys so much for all your participation.
Thanks again to Marian and Matt for your presentations
and to the answers in the chat
from our other subject matter experts.
We look forward to seeing at a future
resilience webinar and we will see you then.
Take care.