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Digital Coast Academy offers a wide range of learning resources.
Climate Adaptation for Coastal Communities
Provides a thorough introduction to adaptation planning, including practical skills, in-class exercises, and local speakers and discussions
Coastal Inundation Mapping
Provides information about coastal flooding data and products with instruction on mapping various inundation extents using a GIS
Introducing Green Infrastructure for Coastal Resilience
Introduces green infrastructure concepts and practices, which can play a critical role in making coastal communities more resilient
Managing Visitor Use in Coastal and Marine Protected...
Provides tools needed to identify and address undesirable impacts from visitor use
Planning Effective Projects for Resilient Coasts
Provides the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to design and implement projects with measurable impacts
Planning and Facilitating Collaborative Meetings
Increases participants’ ability to plan and facilitate meetings that enhance problem solving and minimize conflict
Planning for Meaningful Evaluation
Helps participants create comprehensive evaluation plans
Fostering Behavior Change for Coastal Management: An...
Introduces participants to a basic approach to influence the way people interact with their environment
OpenNSPECT
Covers the technical aspects of OpenNSPECT, a GIS-based tool used to examine land cover and estimate runoff, nonpoint source pollution, and erosion
Seven Best Practices for Risk Communication
Introduces participants to the techniques most useful for effective communication about coastal hazards
Coastal Community Planning and Development
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
Using Flood Exposure Maps
Provides step-by-step instructions for creating and using local flood exposure maps with the Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper
CanVis
Provides a basic introduction to this easy-to-use visualization software that is often used in project planning, policy making, and communication efforts
Coastal Inundation Toolkit
Conveys the basic information communities need to understand and address coastal inundation issues
Coastal Planning Advisor
Provides process guidance for teams addressing any of 12 common coastal management challenges
Coastal and Waterfront Smart Growth Guide
Provides guidance resources and case studies for implementing smart growth strategies in coastal and waterfront communities
Conserving Wetlands for Sea Level Rise Adaptation
Guides communities in using nature-based methods to counter the impacts from climate change
Deriving Shorelines from Lidar
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
Georeferencing a Map or T-sheet
Steps the user through the process of georeferencing a map or T-sheet in ArcGIS by using an interactive simulation
Green Infrastructure Mapping Guide
Provides detailed guidance for GIS analysts looking to incorporate flood-reducing conservation strategies into community planning efforts
Habitat Priority Planner
Provides the knowledge and skills required to use the Habitat Priority Planner ArcGIS extension to enhance conservation, restoration, and planning processes
How to Calculate Coastal Flood Frequency
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
How to Consider Climate Change in Coastal Conservation
Outlines a step-by-step approach to incorporating climate change information into a conservation plan
How to Facilitate a Virtual Meeting
Outlines strategies for creating virtual meetings that efficiently attain meeting objectives
How to Map Ocean Uses with Participatory GIS
Provides instructions and resources for designing workshops that gather useful, map-based information from a variety of ocean resource user groups
How to Use Land Cover Data as a Water Quality Indicator
Demonstrates how land cover data can be used to assess several water quality indicators
How to Write a Strategic Plan
Provides a step-by-step process for developing a strategic plan
Introduction to Lidar
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
Needs Assessment Guide
Provides instruction and guidance for people conducting a needs assessment
Understanding Enforceable Policies
Provides guiding checkpoints and interactive practice for determining whether state statutes or regulations would be approved as legally enforceable policies
Understanding Map Projections, Datums, and Coordinat...
Provides an introduction to the concepts of these mapping elements with application examples for the Pacific region
Building Higher and Stronger to Prepare for Future S...
Learn about strategies for incorporating stricter floodplain building standards as residents recover from a major storm
Building Momentum for Green Infrastructure Implement...
Learn how investing in a green infrastructure study helped Toledo, Ohio gain support for green infrastructure with transparent information
Community Rain Gardens are a Great Environmental Out...
Learn how simple, low-impact development projects for controlling stormwater can build local support for natural and sustainable practices
Designing Living Shorelines for New England Coasts
Discover strategies for a living shorelines approach in cold climates from an ecologist's perspective
Louisiana Parish Creates a Model Subdivision Ordinan...
Discover the approach used to create a model ordinance for St. Tammany Parish that enhanced public safety and community resilience to flood hazards
Navy Pier Redevelopment Project Serves as Model of S...
Learn about one green infrastructure technique that Navy Pier is using to manage stormwater runoff
Out of Harm’s Way: Relocation Strategies to Reduce F...
Learn how Kinston, North Carolina used buyouts and relocations to permanently reduce its flood risk
Post-Sandy Recovery Efforts Provide Opportunity to P...
Find strategies for using post-storm recovery efforts to boost overall community resilience.
Stakeholder Engagement Process Reaps Big Rewards for...
Learn how stakeholders are using a collaborative planning process to assess their hazard risks, vulnerabilities, and mitigation opportunities
Watershed Outreach Coordinators Help Municipalities ...
Learn about the stakeholder engagement and visual approaches used to propel New Jersey towns into hazards resilience planning
A Community Resource Guide for Planning Living Shore...
Provides communities with key information and resources for moving forward with living shoreline projects in New Jersey
A Community-Based Social Marketing Approach to Promo...
Includes themes and key messages to help planners convey to communities the value of incorporating hazard mitigation in their comprehensive plans
A Framework for Developing Monitoring Plans for Coas...
Guides users in selecting monitoring metrics, collecting data, and developing a monitoring plan for coastal wetland restoration and living shoreline projects
A Guide for Incorporating Ecosystem Service Valuatio...
Outlines a process for measuring socioeconomic benefits of salt marshes, living shorelines, and oyster reefs
A Guide for Planning for Meaningful Evaluation
Outlines a process for planning evaluations that can improve any project or program
A Guide to Assessing Green Infrastructure Costs and ...
Outlines six steps to help communities determine costs of flooding and green infrastructure approaches
A Policy Analysis of the Use of Ecosystem Service Va...
Provides a review of documents, policies, and staff experiences from three states on valuing ecosystem services
Advancing Preparedness of Climate Change Impacts on ...
Documents an assessment of climate change impacts on the Mid-Atlantic region and suggestions for addressing those impacts at a state and regional scale
Coastal Community Resilience Indicators and Rating S...
Helps local planners sort through the numerous resources for benchmarking resilience and tracking progress
Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard
Presents the national standard for classifying ecosystems and biological communities in estuarine, coastal, and open ocean environments
Describing the Ocean Economies of the U.S. Virgin Is...
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
Economic Assessment of Green Infrastructure Strategi...
Provides communities with a framework to assess the economic benefits of green infrastructure for reducing flood impacts
Federal Resource Management and Ecosystem Services G...
Assists resource managers in incorporating ecosystem services into planning and management processes
Great Lakes Beach Hazards: Developing a Risk Communi...
Evaluates existing messages and identifies key target audiences and tactics to improve risk communication
Guidance for Benthic Habitat Mapping
Outlines technical recommendations for developing shallow-water benthic habitat maps from aerial imagery
Guide for Considering Climate Change in Coastal Cons...
Offers a step-by-step approach for incorporating climate change into coastal conservation planning and provides resources to help
Hazard and Resiliency Planning: Perceived Benefits a...
Examines the human factors that encourage or deter hazard and resilience planning and what factors might lead to more robust planning
Historical Hurricane Planning and Impact Assessment ...
Compiles historical documents relating to various aspects of hurricanes, including planning and response and post-storm assessments
Incorporating Sea Level Change Scenarios at the Loca...
Outlines eight steps to help communities calculate sea level change scenarios and communicate impacts
Infrastructure Systems Rebuilding Principles
Guides coastal rebuilding activities with the aim of creating more resilient communities
Introduction to Conducting Focus Groups
Introduces key elements and practices that will increase the success of a focus group effort
Introduction to Economics for Coastal Managers
Describes basic economic concepts and methods and explains how state and local government officials can use them to make better-informed decisions
Introduction to Planning and Facilitating Effective ...
Describes facilitator roles, planning strategies, and the tools and techniques necessary to deliver results-driven meetings
Introduction to Stakeholder Participation
Discusses some of the most important considerations and offers a guide to the most common techniques
Introduction to Survey Design and Delivery
Provides insight into the various types and methods of survey research
Inventory of Coastal Recreation and Tourism Data
Presents national and select state-level coastal recreation and tourism data for California, Florida, Hawaii, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Ohio
Lake Michigan Basin Land Cover Change Report
Summarizes land cover status in 2010 and land cover changes over the previous decades using maps and graphics
Lidar 101: An Introduction to Lidar Technology, Data...
Provides an overview of the data produced by lidar sensors and ways to customize and use these data to inform coastal decisions
Marine Managed Areas: Best Practices for Boundary Ma...
Provides step-by-step practice and tips for those charged with developing and mapping marine boundaries
Marketing Storm Surge for Improved Risk Communication
Presents research findings and materials for raising storm surge awareness, including the Potential Storm Surge Flooding map
Marshes on the Move
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
NOAA Report on the Ocean and Great Lakes Economy of ...
Examines and visually illustrates the economic contributions of the oceans and Great Lakes
National Coastal Population Report: Population Trend...
Presents basic demographic status and trends information from 1970 to 2020 for coastal shoreline and watershed counties
Preparing to Write Your Strategic Plan
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
Regional Accuracy Assessment Reports
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
Regional Land Cover Change Reports
Summarize land cover status in 2010 and land cover changes over the previous decade and a half (from 1996 to 2010)
Risk Behavior and Risk Communication: Synthesis and ...
Provides social science information about behavior and communication in the face of coastal hazards
Social Scientific Perspectives of Storm Surge
Describes the processes by which various audiences receive, interpret, and use storm surge data
Stakeholder Engagement Strategies for Participatory ...
Provides simple strategies for leading a participatory mapping process, focusing primarily on stakeholder involvement
Stormwater Management in Pacific and Caribbean Islan...
Promotes low impact development, or green infrastructure, to improve water quality, rainwater reuse, and groundwater recharge to better protect tropical island resources
Summary of Hurricane Local Statement Social Science ...
Contains information on hurricane watches and warnings, protective actions from local officials, and meteorological hazards—all to help improve the usefulness of hurricane communications
The National Significance of California's Ocean Economy
Outlines the inland significance of California’s marine transportation and ocean tourism sectors
The Role of Land Use in Adaptation to Increased Prec...
This case study examines how strategically protecting natural lands and open space can reduce damages from flooding and also provide environmental and social benefits
Understanding Risk Behavior
Covers the complexity of behavior in the face of risk and offers best practices for effective risk communication
Using Photorealistic Visualizations
Focuses primarily on using photorealistic visualizations to convey coastal effects and introduces key concepts surrounding them
What Will Adaptation Cost? An Economic Framework for...
Helps community leaders and planners make more economically informed decisions about adapting to sea level rise and storm flooding
Writing Your Strategic Plan
Companion workbook that provides the framework to build organizational commitment and guide the development of the strategic plan
CanVis Cheat Sheet
Provides a visual and functional description of each tool available on the CanVis software toolbar
Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) Land Cover C...
Provides a description of land cover classes used within NOAA’s Coastal Change Analysis Program(C-CAP) regional land cover products
Common Data Collection Methods for Evaluation
Provides a summary of the most common methods for collecting data needed for project or program evaluation
Community Goals Scorecard
Offers an easy-to-follow format to determine how well existing development policies and regulations support a community’s economic, environmental, and social goals
ENOW Counties List
Provides a list of the 400 coastal counties included in the Economics: National Ocean Watch (ENOW) data set
Facilitation Techniques
Provides a list of key techniques facilitators use to lead successful meeting discussions
Feasibility of Adaptation Options
Provides information and guidance for assessing community climate adaptation options
Green Infrastructure Practices and Benefits Matrix
Offers a handy overview of nature-based solutions used to lessen community flooding
Habitat Priority Planner Version 3.0 Quick Reference
Provides concise information on each of the Habitat Priority Planner tool modules
Meeting Evaluation Template
Provides a worksheet to use when gathering evaluation feedback from meeting participants
Natural and Structural Measures for Shoreline Stabil...
Presents easy-to-digest information on shoreline stabilization techniques, including living shorelines
Participants Checklist for Risk and Vulnerability As...
Provides a helpful checklist for leaders who are enlisting people to participate in risk and vulnerability discussions
Process Agenda Template
Provides guidance for facilitators and meeting leaders on creating a productive meeting agenda
Risk Communication Best Practices
Offers a tip sheet of best practices and techniques for risk communication projects
Rubric to Assess Readiness for an Evaluation
Provides a scoring guide to assess a program’s or project’s readiness for an evaluation
Stakeholder Analysis Worksheet
Provides a simple process for identifying stakeholders to involve in a community-wide decision-making process
Techniques for Facilitating Virtual Meetings
Offers time-tested strategies for planning and running effective virtual meetings
CanVis: A Tool for Visualizing Coastal Changes and P...
Describes how to create photorealistic simulations of your project area using CanVis’ extensive icon library, which includes buildings, infrastructure, natural elements (55-minute webinar)
Community Resilience, Part I: Assessing Vulnerabilit...
Outlines a process for assessing and reducing community vulnerability to coastal hazards and climate change (26-minute webinar)
Community Resilience, Part II: Ecosystem-Based Adapt...
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)
Diving into the Ocean Economy with Economics: Nation...
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)
Econ 120: Ecosystem Services
Examines the economic principles involved when evaluating ecosystem services (3-minute video)
Econ 120: Externalities
Explains how decisions that make good economic sense may create unexpected consequences (2-minute video)
Econ 120: Indicators
Explains the factors, such as jobs and wages, that have to be measured and evaluated to understand economic health (3-minute video)
Econ 120: Ocean Economy
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)
Econ 120: Value
Understand how economists value the tangible and nontangible components of the coast (3-minute video)
Engaging Stakeholders in Coastal Management through ...
Provides information on the role of participatory mapping as a technique for involving stakeholders in coastal management decision-making (27-minute webinar)
Green Infrastructure Protective Services Animation
Explains the concept of green infrastructure and its coastal storm protection benefits (3-minute video)
Land Cover Products for Understanding Water Quality ...
Provides information and tools to show how land cover impacts water quality (46-minute webinar)
Living Shorelines: Bringing Together Science, Restor...
Introduces the “living shorelines” concept and highlights examples from across the country (57-minute webinar)
Marshes on the Move: A Manager’s Guide to Understand...
Provides key considerations and questions to ask when presented with models and maps estimating coastal wetland impacts from sea level rise (64-minute webinar)
Monitoring the U.S. Ocean and Great Lakes Economy
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)
New Elevation Inventory for the Nation
Introduces the U.S. Interagency Elevation Inventory, a comprehensive, nationwide listing of high-accuracy topographic data (30-minute webinar)
Ocean Dimensions
Describes the complexity of ocean use planning and how MarineCadastre.gov helps officials evaluate sites for their offshore projects (1-minute video)
Planning for Restoration Using the Habitat Priority ...
Demonstrates how to set up a spatial analysis process for habitation restoration efforts (40-minute webinar)
Tidal Flooding
Explains the threats that come with shallow coastal flooding and shows how communities can best prepare (5-minute video)
Tools for Resilience
Highlights two tools communities can use to assess and reduce coastal flooding vulnerability (3-minute video)
Tsunamis: Be Prepared and Stay Safe!
Explains how to prepare for and respond to a tsunami (1-minute video)
Understanding the National Hurricane Center’s Storm ...
Provides information that the public needs to better understand storm surge and the threat it poses to life and property (3-minute video)
Using Benthic Habitat Data for Ecosystem-Based Manag...
Presents a case study from California on using nearshore benthic habitat maps to develop restoration goals (26-minute webinar)
Using Geospatial Techniques to Plan for Climate Chan...
Learn how a national wildlife refuge worked with geospatial analysts to incorporate sea level rise projections into conservation efforts (28-minute webinar)
Using Participatory GIS to Map Ocean Uses in the Mid...
Provides information on using participatory GIS to capture local knowledge on ocean-use patterns, including the process, data, and lessons learned (56-minute webinar)
Vessel Tracking Data Used for Ocean Planning
Provides an overview of vessel tracking data and tools, and how to apply them to ocean planning (58-minute webinar)
What is Storm Surge?
Provides information about storm surge and its impacts (1-minute video)
What’s New in MarineCadastre.gov
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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