Before we get started, we are
required to inform all attendees that the session is being recorded.
Webcams and microphones have been disabled for all participants in order
to protect your personally identifiable information.
All communication for today's session will be via the chat box.
And with that, I'm going to turn it over to Margaret Allen to get us started.
All right. Thank you so much, Shannon.
Welcome, everyone, to Diving into the Digital Coast.
I'm Margaret Allen with the Office for Coastal Management,
and I'll be serving as the moderator today.
This webinar is the sixth in a series webinars we designed for the applicants
that were invited to submit a proposal
for the Climate Resilience Regional Challenge.
You may have seen that we offered a webinar on this topic last week too.
We decided to offer it twice to better meet the time
zone needs of our applicants.
So the same material
is going to be covered today and is being covered in both of the
webinars.
So what examples might focus today?
More on West Coast and Pacific
region areas, the screenshots and examples, whereas last week
there were focused more on the East Coast, Great Lakes and Gulf Coast.
But main point is no need to go back and watch that recording.
If you're here today watching this flood and the same information is covered.
But we are recording here today in case you miss something, or
want to go back and check out a resource that's mentioned here today.
So today we are going to explore the Digital Coast website,
which is a one stop shop for data tools, learning products
and training opportunities that address some of the challenging
coastal management topics that you all are trying to address.
We'll focus on resources that you can access on the digital coast,
but there are other NOAA resources out there to explore.
While we won't talk about those today, we will follow up with via email
with additional information on the resources we talk about today
and some of the additional NOAA resources that are out there.
We hope today
that you will recognize the Digital coast as a source of support
for your applications, and want to increase your comfort
in using the platform.
So with the agenda and kind of line up for today's
webinar is to give you an overview of the Digital coast,
talk a little bit about how it can help your climate risks, help
you tell your climate risk story using data and maps,
and then also provide a snapshot of the learning products
that can support the Climate Resilience Regional Challenge.
We'll also, as we go through the presentation today,
hold all questions until the end, but feel free
to type those questions into the chat throughout the presentation.
We'll get to as many of these as we can.
If your question isn’t answered or not answered fully here,
or you come up with the question after today, always feel free to direct
questions to the resiliencechallenge@noaa.gov email
and we will connect you with the right subject matter expert for your question.
As we get started here this afternoon, we have a poll question
to gauge your familiarity with the Digital Coast platform.
So please take a minute to access the poll by clicking down at the bottom right
hand corner there is a Triangle square circle icon.
If you click on that and then click on polls, which is the second in the list,
you will see a poll there where you can
let us know if you how familiar you are with the digital app.
So your options are.
I've used Digital Coast resources, I have checked out the website,
I have heard of it, but never explored it and I have never heard of it.
It looks like so far we've got 16 votes and a really great spread across the board.
There are fewer now that haven't heard of it,
which I think will make some of our staff very happy and smile.
But that's okay if you haven't heard of it, that is when.
That is why we're here today.
To let you know, to know about it and what's available there.
And if you have,
we'd love to hear from you, too, on some of the things of how you use it.
And we'll have a little bit of time to do that here today.
So thank you so much for answering the poll.
Our speakers today will be Tashya Allen
and Bret Folger, both with the NOAA Office for Coastal Management.
Tashya is our regional Learning Services coordinator for the Southeast
and Caribbean, and Bret is our regional geospatial coordinator for the West Coast.
We have a few other subject matter experts on the call today,
including Marion Hanisko and Matt Pendleton,
that may be helping to answer some of your questions in the chat.
So if you see them
giving you answers, you can be assured those are part of our staff members.
Also helping to...
helping our speakers answer questions sort of offline as you have them.
And with that, I
will go ahead and hand it over to Bret to get us started.
Bret.
Thank you, Margaret.
Hey everyone.
I am Bret Folger and
I'm the regional geospatial coordinator
for the West Coast of the Lower 48 United States.
So I cover California, Oregon and Washington.
On the call.
We also have Jackie Overbeck, our regional geospatial
coordinator for Alaska, and Andy McGowan was the regional
geospatial coordinator for the Pacific region.
So thank you all for coming.
We're going to spend the next 30 minutes or so sharing data visualization tools
and learning resources that we have
to help assess and communicate coastal hazard risks.
So to start us off, I'm going to give a quick background on our office
and Digital Coast as one of our programs, just to provide a little context.
So you know, here at OCM we've got four key programs
that govern much of what we do, and that's the National Coastal Management
Program, the National Estuarine Research Reserve System,
the Coral Reef Conservation Program and Digital Coast.
So these are all programs we lead to help protect coastlines,
develop the coastal workforce and prepare coastal managers at the state
and local level to protect their coastlines.
And this
preparation is where Digital Coast really pulls a lot of weight.
So we're going to dive in into Digital Coast.
so Digital Coast is it's more than just a resource library, right?
It's a partnership of organizations that represent the needs of many different
audiences, including planners, floodplain managers, county officials,
and really many more to run the gamut of the people
and the organizations that make up the coastline.
And all of these digital coast partners will help ensure that their resources
on Digital Coast are supporting the work and the needs of their audiences.
And likely some of the audiences you're interacting with in your work.
I'm sure there are some of you that work with these organizations
on the call today.
So, you know, on Digital Coast, you know, you're going to hear me
say a lot of big stats like this as we go, but just bear with me.
There are over 2900 datasets on Digital Coast, over
70 tools and 160 training resources,
and we even
have over 110 case studies and stories about
how Digital Coast resources have been used to achieve results.
So perhaps those can help guide you in your work.
Finding a like use in the past.
So you know, there's a lot of information and resources on Digital Coast
and today we're going to just try and highlight
some of the resources and help make Digital Coast more approachable for
So to get started, this is the Digital Coast Home page.
This is where you will end up if you follow the link there
to the Digital coast.
It's a really large resource, but
we've tried to be really intentional in organizing it intuitively.
So the best place to start is with the left side menu
and the three arrows there are showing the data, the tools and the training
menus.
So if you click on, those they’ll take you specifically
to those sections of the site.
And from there you can
navigate to find what you might need.
If you're more broadly interested in a specific topic or theme of resources.
The fifth option down is titled topics.
That can be a great place to start as well.
So for today, I'll go through some data and tools that might be useful for you.
And then Tashya will review training resources.
And as Margaret mentioned, you know,
this presentation is really focused on OCM resources.
There are plenty more resources on Digital Coast,
especially tools and data from, say, USGS
or Sea grant, various universities.
And all of these are fantastic, but we have a limited amount of time to this.
We're just going to focus on the OCM resources
as they're the ones that we know best and have developed
intentionally for the coastal management community.
We'll start with data hosted on Digital Coast.
There are over 80 terabytes of high resolution
elevation, land cover and ortho imagery data,
which are all available for download and use by the public.
And for a little context, 80 terabytes is
that's the equivalent to over 300 maxed out laptops worth of data.
So yeah, it's a lot
a lot of back-end work that goes on for that.
But it's so that this stuff can be easily accessible for users.
For the GIS and mapping folks out there.
We also host over 350 Web mapping services that you can
bring in to your own work locally or on a Web mapping platform.
And we also have 40 over 40 linkages.
The coastal data sets that span the whole nation.
In addition to elevation, land cover and imagery data,
we also have all kinds of other data like weather, climate
and hazards data, socioeconomic data and ocean
use and planning data that you might find useful
in the tool section of Digital Coast.
We have over 50 decision support and information visualization tools,
and most of these are screening level tools that help managers and planners
understand how risks are distributed spatially in the region and help
analysts understand where they should focus their analysis.
As we go through, as we go through a few of them, most of the tools make key
geospatial information available to those without any GIS experience or knowledge,
which
brings land cover data, land use, change, flood risk and other information
to a broader audience and makes it more accessible.
Similar to the other two, this is the home page for the training resources
Resource can be search by keyword,
by whether they're in-person or virtual
or by topic to help users find the best resource for them and Tashya
will cover a bunch of great resources in this section.
Okay, So let's take a minute
and think about how data and tools we review
coming up here relate to your proposals for the Climate
Resilience Regional Challenge, by considering the following questions.
Why is your project important to your community?
I know that's something that everyone
who who's written a proposal has considered.
How will it make your community more resilient?
Right. That's one of the key goals of this challenge.
And finally, how will your project help protect people in an equitable way?
Another key tenet of the challenge
these are big questions, right?
Important questions.
And many of the tools we've created for the coastal zone
can help you gain some clarity in answering these questions
to help sew the thread through your climate risk story
and that's what hopefully will be able to help
you do here in the coming section.
One thing, to note is that all of our tools have a little
information icon, a little ‘I’ or
an about section that helps explain
how to navigate the tool, its purpose and its scope.
So I strongly suggest, you know, when I first started using Digital Coast,
I went into it and I don't know, there's so many resources,
where do I even start, you know, open a tool, How do I even use this?
And I sort of got flustered.
And, you know, when I went back the next time
I went through the little information icons, the about icons
and so like okay, they tell you how to do it.
So just, you know, take the time to look at those things.
And I think you'll find the resources pretty user friendly.
So before we jump in, just look at the tools we'll be reviewing today.
So hopefully, you know, you hear these once, twice, three
times, four times, and then you won't forget about them.
So we're going to start on the data side for more technical users
and move towards the more curated tools that we host.
So we’ll be starting with the Data Access Viewer.
And then we'll look at the Land Cover Atlas.
After that, I'll do a little demonstration of how to use the Coastal Flood Exposure
mapper before looking at the Sea Level Rise Viewer
and the Coastal County Snapshots Tool.
All right,
so first up is the data access viewer.
This is one of the most used and well known data repositories out there
for publicly available imagery, land cover and elevation data.
And so you begin by just selecting what type of data you're interested in.
Once you are in there,
you can either enter a location in the search bar up in the top left
or zoomed to an area of interest and draw a box around it.
So start out here.
I've selected elevation data.
You can see up in the top left
and I searched for Anchorage, Alaska, and once I clicked
on the result that came up, it gave me this sort of bounding box.
You can see that shaded orange area.
So all of the elevation data sets whose footprint touches
the area of interest will show up in chronological order
here on the right side
from most recent to least.
So here I’ve hovered my mouse over the Lidar collection at the top of the list,
the 2019 to 2020 USGS collection.
Hopefully you can read that.
It's a little a little blurry,
but once
you hover over that, it will reveal the footprint of the collection,
the area that it covers, and that's that area in blue.
And this method works for all three different types of data,
imagery, land cover or elevation.
So you can see that that blue area, that footprint tells you
whether or not the collection covers your area of interest.
And when downloading data set, you can either download the entire collection
or just the area that falls within the your area of interest box.
So I can either download that whole blue footprint
or I can download just the section that intersects with my orange box.
And this is really useful for if you only need a subset of data,
you don't need the entire ten gigabytes of Lidar or something like that.
And that's where the drawing the box really helps.
So the next tool we have
is the Land Cover Atlas, and this one starts to blend data
visualization and analysis with downloadable data.
This tool documents land
cover change at a 30 meter resolution for the coastal U.S.
every five years from the nineties until now.
So that's every five years from the nineties until now.
And it's one of the key authoritative sources of land cover data for the US.
I really got going in my mapping
using land cover data and its ability
to help us understand broader landscape level change,
the things that sort of drive local environmental issues and coastal issues.
It's very useful for that.
So anyone who's worked with this knows sort of knows
the utility of this kind of data.
The Land Cover Atlas is quite user friendly
and it doesn't require any GIS software or experience.
Users just need to enter in a state, a county or watershed of interest
and a time range to get started
as seen on that little, little visual on the right side.
That's sort of how, that’s how you get started.
And once you do that, it will take you to this next page.
So I chose
O’ahu and a
time range of 2005 to 2010
and those tabs on the left side there, give different options
for how to view land use change in the area.
So the first tab is which isn't shown right now, but that first tab will show
overall change in multiple categories, so forests,
wetlands, developed area, etc.
And then the next three ones focus specifically in on developed, change
in developed area, forest and wetlands respectively.
So in this view here
we're looking at how much developed area changed
in the area just to the west of Pearl
Harbor from 2005 to 2010.
So we can see that green, green denotes area
that was not developed before 2005, But during that time
span of 2005 to 2010 was turned into developed area.
And we can see that
both developed area and impervious surface
has increased
during that time span.
So I'm sure some of these green areas,
I'm sure that some of you know that area well will be able to zoom into those areas
and tell us exactly what those now developed areas
used to look like and what they are.
And so that's where these tools can be combined with local knowledge to,
you know, to give users the ability to take things that they see
on the ground and visualize them from far away and vice versa.
One thing to note is that we are in the process of rolling out the first phase
of a one meter land cover data product for the coastal zone of the entire U.S.
Most of the U.S., most of the contiguous U.S.
is available right now on our data Access Viewer.
And California, Hawaii
and Alaska should be coming out relatively soon.
So the great accuracy of the one meter product allows for more site
specific land cover mapping, as you can see in the comparison here.
So on the left side, we have the 30 meter.
On the right side, it's the local one meter.
You can see the individual neighborhoods,
you know, homes and things that specific.
And here is another, another view of the comparison.
So you can really drum down, drill down and get to some
pretty high resolution analysis, which is exciting,
at least for me and those others who nerd out on things like this.
But this stuff can go a long way in understanding where restoration is
needed, you know, understanding how land use has changed in the area over
the past decade or three
decades to help you make a case that
resilience work
in the coastal zone is needed for your region.
Okay.
Next, we'll take a look at a tool that is particularly useful in helping
communities understand their potential coastal hazard impacts.
And this one is called the Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper.
So this is another screening level map viewer,
and it's developed to help communities visualize
where people, places and natural resources are exposed to flood
hazards and spur conversations around solutions.
So like the Land Cover Atlas, no GIS experience
is needed for this tool.
So I'll share a couple new features of this tool,
and then I'll do a quick live demo for you just so you can get an idea
of how to walk through it.
Though one thing I mentioned those information sections
and about sections at the beginning
that help me find my way around the Digital Coast, and
we recently added a new feature to the tool that helps users
know if the tool fits their needs.
So with
this new checklist, is this tool right for you?
You get a customized companion guide
with tips on how to use the mapper for different tasks.
It helps you outline your project and guides you based on your inputs.
So, for example,
I chose the action here on the left side.
I chose the action inform Hazards exposure information
in a grant proposal.
When I make that selection, I get a handy little guide here
that provides a quick overview of the mapper and helpful tips
on how to create maps to help inform my grant proposal.
So just a few options here that can help guide you in using this tool
as part of your grant proposal or in other work you might have.
So I'm going to go ahead and switch over to the
to the coastal flood exposure mapper. Now.
Okay. Looking good.
So this is our landing page and I'm going to go ahead and just click launch.
This is how most of our landing pages look, we'll go ahead and launch it.
And here we are.
And I, I wanted to do a little demo just so folks can get
a hands on understanding of how to walk through it.
You can only look at so many slides in a row.
So figuring shake it up a little bit.
This right here, it says, Is this tool right for you.
And that's exactly the slides we just covered.
So that's where you'd go for that.
But we're going to go ahead and get started
and see if we can answer a few questions.
So this takes us into the tool.
All these red and orange areas along the coast are areas of
multiple coastal hazards.
And so since we're sort of taking a West Coast to Alaska and Pacific
focus today, I'm going to go ahead and search for
that. We're going to go ahead and look at
Aberdeen, Washington,
which is right at the head of Grays Harbor here.
We'll zoom out just so folks can see.
And this is an area that is
quite susceptible to sea level rise and coastal storms
being that it's both,
you know, both right in the path
of lots of North Pacific storms for storm surge, but also at the mouth
of the Chehalis River that receives a lot of rain during those
storms.
And those two meet right here in Aberdeen.
So if we zoom in real quick,
we can just see that there's a lot going on around here.
You can look at our legend.
The darker the red, the more hazard zones exist.
And then we'll go over here in the bottom left to our layers.
So this main one is our coastal flood hazard composite, and this brings together
a lot of different flood risks to sort of show how they stack up in an area.
Look down at this right area and we'll just click
the number of, there are seven hazards here.
They're all listed here.
It's susceptible to high tide flooding sea level rise of one, two and three feet.
And of course, beyond that tsunami run up
zone and more.
So just to give you an idea
that's the kind of information you can quickly see with this.
The other I think real benefit to this tool is that
we can overlay societal exposure,
infrastructure exposure and ecosystem
exposure variables with various hazards.
Right? So we can see,
say, how many
employees are in these different, different
these different flood hazard areas.
Now, luckily in Aberdeen, more of the
employees exist outside of these zones, but you know, that's good.
That's good to know for planning.
We can also turn on poverty
levels by census tract, right?
We can look at critical facilities and see where they exist.
So there's multiple critical facilities
in these different flood hazard areas.
All of these are meant to give the users an idea
of how these different key variables in planning at the coastal level
intersect with coastal flood hazard.
That's sort of the message we want to get across so that
so that we can plan for this stuff right as we're planning for the future,
working on these projects that hopefully will have impact decades down the road.
The final, I think really useful thing
that this mapper does is allows you to just save
maps quickly and download them.
So we wanted to look at critical facilities
in in the flood hazard areas.
You can see there's a bunch of schools,
a law enforcement office, a fire station
or EMS, all here in these flood hazard areas.
And then if we go down here to this blue button and click
save map up to our saved map collection here.
We can just download this map
and then put it right into a presentation if we want.
You know?
So it's a great way for non-technical folks
without any GIS software
to take geospatial data
and be able to present on it, show how these things interact.
Okay.
Back to our main presentation.
forgot about the slide.
We'll move right past it.
So moving on, we are now going to look at the sea level
rise viewer and stay on this coastal flooding subject.
So we just looked at the coastal flood exposure mapper,
which is a more holistic tool for looking at coastal flooding
while the sea level rise viewer really focuses on sea level rise now
and into the future in coastal areas and
how we can how we can plan for it.
So here is
the basically the landing page of the sea level rise viewer
and I have searched San Francisco Bay up there in the search bar.
So this is
basically what the viewer will show you for San Francisco
bay with all of those areas along the coast that are lighter blue
being the areas that are low lying and at risk.
So for starters, we have a menu of options on the left side of the
viewer.
And that slider there that helps users visualize
sea level rise of up to ten feet on the local landscape.
The different tabs there,
they allow users to look at local sea level rise scenarios marsh migration
due to sea level rise, vulnerability overlaid with sea level rise,
and a few other categories that you can look at.
All of those blue icons
with a little drop of water on them offer a glimpse into a local sea
level rise scenario and how sea level rise of a certain level
would look at a specific location.
So on the left we see Vaillancourt Fountain in San Francisco
with a sea level rise of five feet.
And at that level, that that blue area in the bottom, that's all water.
So the fountain would be inundated by water coming in from San Francisco Bay.
So that little function just gives users sort of a real, real, tangible
feel of a place maybe they know,
and what it would look like with this amount of sea level rise.
The second tab on the left allows users to actually understand
how much sea level rise is realistic for a certain area.
So each scenario
there that intermediate low on the bottom up to high,
those are all tied to the 2022 interagency technical report on sea level rise.
So the authoritative science for the United States
and those give the user the ability to know how much sea level rise
to expect and to plan for, for a certain location.
And one thing to note is that that this viewer
just considers sea level rise, not any other potential flooding factors.
So here we see 2.7
feet by 2080 is realistic for Alameda, California.
But you know, say another one of those atmospheric river storms
is coming through like last winter in the area.
There may be storm surge, there may be rainfall, and that could
exacerbate the, you know, the existing,
the already existing rising seas,
to make it so the sea level is more like four feet, something like that.
So this specific tab helps us understand what's realistic, while also understanding
that weather and climate sometimes work together to exacerbate flooding.
So now this only shows you the projected sea level rise from climate change,
not from any other sources.
And the fifth tab on
the sea level Rise viewer allows you to overlay
aspects of sea level rise with the social vulnerability
of census tracts in your area to see how they overlap.
And this is beneficial for understanding that equity piece of,
you know, of this challenge and how your work in your projects
can equally benefit
both areas spatially
and people across your community and region.
This one is called the Coastal County Snapshots Tool
and it is less geospatial in nature than the rest,
but it still gets at how different variables
are spatially distributed across coastal areas.
So this one allows users to look at risks, socioeconomics
and employment characteristics of coastal counties in the US.
It takes complex data and displays it in charts and graphs for ease of use.
And this is commonly used by governing bodies,
coastal planners and others to understand how counties compare
on these different indicators, either within their state
or within their region.
And this one's beneficial to just take these take these graphs
and then put them over into a presentation or something like that
to help tell that story to stakeholders, partner organizations,
even governing members.
So I know that was a ton of tools and information and data,
but we’ll be sharing an email with all attendees afterwards
with links to all the resources we talked about.
So don't worry about remembering at all.
I just wanted to give you a quick snapshot of what's out there
and hopefully you can get in there
and mess around a bit yourself and get to know the platform.
And I will now hand it over to Tashya to share some of our training resources.
Okay. Thank you, Bret. Appreciate that.
So I'm Tashya Allen and I'm a learning services coordinator
for the Southeast and Caribbean.
I'm also joined by two other learning
services coordinators, Lauren Long for the Pacific Islands,
and then also Becky Lunde with the West Coast.
And Becky Lunde is currently acting in her role to support the Climate
Resilience Regional Challenge Technical Assistance.
So they are also on the line and they can also answer some questions as well.
So Bret showed us tools
that can help you tell your climate risk stories in your proposals.
Well, in addition to this, there's also a need talk about how you will engage,
communicate and collaborate with groups being impacted by these climate risks.
So we're going to explore several learning resources
that we could find in the training section
of the Digital Coast
that are going to be able to show us how to approach these different topics.
And as Bret showed you earlier, you can access the training section
by clicking on the training icon located on the Digital Coast Home page.
So once you're in the training section, you can search for learning resources
either by clicking on the On-Demand Resources or schedule training buttons.
So for today's webinar,
we'll be looking at products that are found in the On-Demand Resources
section, and these are products that may help inform your proposals.
You can request scheduled trainings in your proposals as technical assistance
from NOAA So there's two ways to access On-Demand resources.
You can either click on the On Demand Resources button or
my preferred way is to
actually click on the find box
and use one of the suggested focus areas illustrated here on the screen.
And so I've chosen risk communication as my first focus area
that I like to show some different learning resources on.
And for the purposes of this webinar, I've pre-selected several risk
communication learning resources to highlight.
So we know that talking
about risks and doing something about them can be
challenging, especially when communities have so many competing priorities.
And effective Risk
Communication really emphasizes the exchange of thoughts, perceptions
and concerns about hazards to identify and motivate appropriate actions.
And so one of the best practices is to have an informed plan
so that when you are engaging people on hazards risk, you do it in a way
that really connects with their values, concerns and what matters to them.
And so a good place to start with.
Informing your risk communication efforts is with the preparing
for effective risk communication product.
And so this is an interactive module which provides best practices
and tips really on how to engage people of all backgrounds on hazards.
And to
help people be better prepared for their risk communication efforts.
We've also developed a risk communication strategy template.
And so this is divided into three steps define, understand and connect.
And the strategy includes prompts to help you think through
what you need to learn about your audience, really,
so that you're choosing the right way to engage them on hazard risks.
This template is meant to be downloaded and there is space to capture
what you learn.
In addition to this strategy, we also have a worksheet that helps
you think through designing an interaction with your priority audience
that is meaningful, engaging, and also audience focused.
And that's called connecting with your audience, planning your next interaction.
And that's the quick reference that you see on the right there.
One of the really neat things about this worksheet is that it includes
examples of engagement activities and interactions with different audiences,
such as real estate professionals, volunteers and youth.
And for those of you looking for technical assistance to include in your proposals,
we have risk
communication trainings focused on building your risk communication skills.
Okay, So efforts to strengthen resilience include learning what people's needs are,
what concerns they have, and what approaches
they'd like to see happen in their communities.
To be able to do these things, we need to use different social science methods.
So going back to the training section and clicking on the find box,
we have one of the focus areas called social science methods,
and this is how we can access some of our social science focused learning products.
And so when I do that, you'll
see that that we have many resources focused on social science.
But the ones I'm going to focus in on today are around needs assessment,
survey design and conducting focus groups.
If you plan to use a needs assessment to learn more about people's
issues, concerns and needs,
then you may want to explore the needs assessment guide.
This guide helps you plan and conduct a needs assessment.
You'll learn
how to identify issues and audiences, how to pull together a planning team,
how to design and pilot a survey instrument,
and then how to analyze the data that you collect.
And also it contains case
studies that walk you through the needs assessment process.
Surveys can help you learn about people's attitudes,
perceptions and beliefs about coastal hazards and resilience.
But survey
design and delivery is really what I think of as kind of like a fine art.
So the Introduction to Survey Design and Delivery provides
guidance on various types and methods of survey research.
It covers topics such as population and sample size, survey delivery
mechanisms, cover sampling techniques, and how to construct survey questions.
Focus groups enable people to gather to share their thoughts
about a particular topic, such as hazard resilience.
Using this document, the introduction to conducting focus groups.
It provides tips on designing focus groups, selecting participants,
developing effective questions,
and analyzing the data that you gather in your focus groups,
and also if you're looking for technical assistance to include in your proposals
on using social science methods, we offer both virtual and in-person social science
trainings that go in a lot more depth on these different social science methods.
Another key component of collaboration and coordination
is how to get people together so that your workshops and meetings are engaging
and effective.
An effective meeting requires good planning, strong facilitation
and activities that help participants reach meeting goals.
We have two great resources to start with.
One is facilitation techniques and the other is meeting engagement tools.
The facilitation techniques is a quick reference that I think
is pretty handy because you get a list of different facilitation techniques.
For those of you
who will be conducting meetings or workshops as part of your projects,
it can provide ideas on how to engage people to reach your meeting goals.
I really like how each technique has a brief description,
providing enough details to help you decide
if that is the right approach for my meeting goals, the participants.
We also have
the product
that's called Meeting Engagement tools, and this is a bundle of resources
that provides techniques on how to plan, lead and facilitate meetings.
This resource list provides many techniques with links
to one pagers that provide additional details on each technique.
And this is a really great resource to get the detail that you'll need
to think through how you're going to make your meeting engaging.
And for those that are looking for technical assistance on facilitation and
meeting engagement, we also have virtual and in-person facilitation trainings
and you can include that in your proposals as technical assistance.
Along with convening people to talk about risks, it's also a best practice
to discuss how to increase resilience and reduce hazard impacts.
The Digital Coast has several resources focused on nature based solutions
as one option to reduce coastal hazard impacts and increase our resilience.
One barrier we hear to implementing nature based solutions is having information
that shows it's effectiveness to reduce coastal hazard impacts.
And to reduce this barrier, we developed the green of structure
Effectiveness database.
What it lets you do is access literature sources that are focused on demonstrating
the effectiveness of nature based solutions to reduce coastal hazard impacts
and you can search by keyword, nature based solutions type, hazard or geography.
And when you do a search,
you'll see a list of sources that's returned to you.
And if you click on one of those sources, you get a summary of key findings
and other information that may be useful in informing your proposal.
A new addition to the database.
And something that we're very excited about is that it also provides
literature resources on the economics of green infrastructure.
If you're new to nature based solutions and looking for information on practices,
benefits and examples of how people are using it, we have a self-guided
module called the Nature Based Solutions for Coastal Hazards, The Basics.
It really introduces you to nature based solutions
and walks you through an approach
to choosing nature based solutions that provide hazard reduction benefits.
And we also offer virtual and in-person training on nature based solutions.
So this may be something that you're
interested in writing in as technical assistance in your proposal.
And then lastly, we hear that people want to know
what others are doing to tackle all these coastal resilience issues.
And so to help facilitate this, we have over 30 case studies on how
coastal practitioners and communities are tackling coastal resilience issues.
You can find case studies about nature based solutions, risk communication,
community engagement and adaptation planning,
and these cases can be found on the training page under that on demand
resources and using the filters
for green infrastructure or adaptation planning.
So we know that we covered a lot today.
And so if you didn't catch it, all,
as Brent mentioned, we’ll be sending a list of resources that we've covered.
Please reach out if you have any questions.
And I know that we're going
to have some time to take some questions here today.
Also, our team loves to geek out on the different resources
that are on the digital coast.
So you can email Bret or I.
Our emails are on the slide here
or you can email the resilience challenge,
you know, for more information or to submit your questions
on anything that you saw today.
So Bret and I like to thank you for your time
and now I'm going to turn it back over to you.
Margaret All right, Great.
Thank you so much Tashya.
So, yeah, thanks for all of that great information.
We hope that we've really shared some data, tools and learning products
that will help you with your regional challenge project proposal.
As we move into questions, I did want to ask you guys another question.
So we went over a lot of different tools and resources today,
so we wanted to see if there was anything today that kind of piqued your interest
that you think you're going to explore further.
And if so, please take a minute or two to let us know in the chat.
And so while you're working on that, I'm
going to make sure we have covered all the questions in the chat.
It looks like we've had a couple and Bret
has gone in and gotten back to those folks.
So if you guys have any other questions, feel free to put those in the chat
and we can attempt to get those answered.
Also if you I see that Bret's going to follow up with a couple of you
and then also the resiliencechallenge@noaa.gov
is a great way to get questions answered. If
you don't have them in your mind right now
and end up coming up with them later.
So just wanted to remind you about that.
So until any come in or
I see some ideas for how you might use some of these resources.
I did want to mention again, this is just one in the series of webinars
we're planning for the competition applicants.
Two of our final webinars will be in January
once we're all back from the holidays.
And those topics that we'll cover are the climate
resilience Regional Challenge Fellowship Program.
That's on January 10th and then monitoring and measuring performance
of these projects and that will be on January 17th.
So those dates and times and links to
those are listed on the technical assistance website
and you'll be able to access them through
that site.
These diving in to Digital Coast
webinars did require you to register, but those remaining ones will not.
So you don't have to register.
You can just log on.
I do see one question that came up.
I see how easy to use the land cover atlas is,
and although Bret has already shared it with us,
I'm definitely going to spend some time on this tonight.
Wonderful.
That's a great way to
use some of the resources and look at that more.
Very great thank you for sharing.
Well we will go ahead that we have one more thing to do.
We have a link to a short survey regarding today's webinar in the chat.
So please take a moment to provide
feedback on the information we provided here today.
These surveys really help us
to tailor information in the future
to know what was interesting and what was very clear and what things
we could have been more clear on or what things you might want to hear more about.
So if you don't mind clicking on that link, that will take you to a SurveyMonkey
evaluation so you can complete that.
And with that, seeing no more questions,
I just want to thank you again for attending today.
Thanks again to our presenters Tashya
and Bret for providing all this really important information.
Again, if we didn't get a chance to answer your question or answer it fully.
resiliencechallenge@noaa.gov and we'll route your question
to the appropriate contact
and they'll be back in touch with you to provide answers.
I hope you get a chance to go and look at these products
and resources a little more and play around with them.
And as you're doing that, we are here.
We love talking about them, we love sharing them and would love
to help you figure out how they're useful to you
and how best to use them for your project and your community.
So thanks so much.