2023 Virtual Session
Topic: Coastal Community Resilience Index Facilitator Training
Date: August 16, 2023
Time: 9:00 am- 12:00 pm central
Description: Join us for a half-day training where we share best practices for facilitating the CRI with your community.
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2022 Virtual Sessions
Topic: Wellness and Connectedness During Tough Times
Date: January 20, 2022
Time: 10:00-11:00 am central
Description: Are you stressed or feeling overwhelmed? Join us as we explore the importance of wellness in tough times and help us brainstorm which mental health topics our Community of Practice should address moving forward.
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2021 Virtual Sessions
Topic: Keyswide Home Elevation Project
Date: October 7, 2021
Time: 10:00-11:00 am central
Description: Learn how The City of Key West and partners are assisting low-income homeowners with technical and financial issues when preparing to elevate. Discover their process for organizing cooperative bidding where homeowners share a related timeline in order to save money as an economy of scale.
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2020 Virtual Sessions
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Topic: Sea-Level Rise Models: Why So Many?
Date: November 19, 2020
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm central
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Description: Learn how to navigate the different sea-level rise models and assess which one(s) you could use in your work.
Topic: Neighborhood Resilience
Date: October 14, 2020
Time: 1:00-2:30 pm central
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Description: We will hear from three experts undertaking neighborhood resilience from multiple perspectives.
Topic: Spotlight on Communities and Spirit of Community Awards
Date: September 10, 2020
Time: 1:00-2:15 pm central
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Description: In this webinar, two communities (City of Apalachicola and City of Sarasota) will share their stories of tackling climate resilience. We will kick off by announcing the Spirit of Community Award winners!
Topic: Hurricanes and Global Warming
Date: July 16, 2020 (Thursday)
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm central
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Description: Dr. Chris Landsea, Branch Chief with the National Hurricane Center's Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch, will discuss how a changing climate affects hurricane formation and intensity, with a focus on the Gulf of Mexico region. He will also discuss the timeline for when we could see impacts to storms. Dr. Landsea will also share tips on what we (planners, floodplain managers, emergency managers) should be thinking about and/or doing to better prepare for changing conditions.
Topic: Environmental Justice
Date: July 28, 2020 (Tuesday)
Time: 1:00-2:30 pm central
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Description: During this 1.5 hour long training we will hear from three different leaders on environmental justice issues. Reilly Morse, President and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Justice, will discuss outcomes of litigation on the environmental justice landscape regarding flooding. Dr. David Perkes, Director of Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, will identify built and policy solutions to environmental justice issues regarding flooding. Dr. Lisa Mason, University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work, will discuss how to advance social and relational skills to promote climate resilience.
Topic: Law and Sea-Level Rise
Date: August 11, 2020
Time: 1:00-2:30 pm central (Tuesday)
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Description: As seas rise and coastal roads become more frequently inundated, they may reach a point that they are no longer usable. We have seen examples already in many of the Gulf States. Decisions about how to move forward when the expense of maintaining the road seems too high have complicated legal considerations. In this webinar we will discuss some of the various legal statutes that can influence a municipality’s options in these situations.
Topic: Developing a Planning Range for Sea-Level Rise
Date: August 27, 2020 (Thursday)
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm central
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Description: Renee Collini, Program Coordinator for the Northern Gulf of Mexico Sentinel Site Cooperative, will discuss how the probabilities of each sea-level rise scenario can be used to bring intentionality into planning that considers sea-level rise. She will review factors to consider when developing risk tolerance, how different levels of risk tolerance connect to scenario likelihood, and share tips on how to turn a selected amount of sea-level rise into information about future conditions such as high tide or storm surge and what kinds of decisions that could inform.
2019 Virtual Sessions
March 20, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. central
Expanding Coastal Community Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation
January 22, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. central
Adaptation Planning in Florida, Whitney Gray
Fostering Resilience through Better Policies and Building Standards, Hank Hodde