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Coastal Hazard Assessment and Planning Tools

Date

February 05, 2019

Time

8:30 am- 4:30 pm

Location

176 Lockwood Blvd, Charleston

Venue

Joseph P. Riley Center for Livable Communities

Narrative

This one-day performance-level training course provides training on the available tools for the assessment and planning for natural hazards and vulnerabilities that uniquely affect coastal communities. Examples of these hazards are short term events such as high surf, storm surge, and tsunami inundation, or long term threats from sea level rise and coastal erosion.

 

The goal of this course is to enable participants to:

  • Describe the hazards and risks that threaten coastal communities
  • Identify the tools and technologies available to monitor coastal hazards in the coastal environment
  • Leverage the web-based tools available to model and map coastal hazards, including those on NOAA’s Digital Coast
  • Utilize available tools to conduct a vulnerability assessment in their community

 

As a performance-level course, this course aims to provide a detailed overview of the tools and technologies available to assess the hazards and the vulnerabilities of coastal communities.   These tools include real-time data collection tools and technologies, as well as web-based assessment tools, such as NOAA’s Digital Coast tools.  The course will include a guided exercise in which participants will learn to apply these tools in conducting a vulnerability assessment in their coastal communities.  This course will build on the first course of the series, Coastal Hazards Awareness, by supplementing the awareness knowledge with tools and skills for practical use.

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Contact

Tricia Ryan

Phone: (843) 740-1145

tricia.ryan@noaa.gov

Type
  • Training
Audience
  • Emergency Managers
  • Federal Government
  • General Public
  • Local Government
  • Outreach/Education Professionals
  • Planners
  • Public Works Officials
  • State Government
Categories
  • Emergency Management
  • Hazards
Focus Areas
  • County: Charleston
Quarter
  • Winter 19 (Jan - Mar)
Leading Org.
  • NOAA Office for Coastal Management
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