The Coastal Inundation Community of Practice is a national network of practitioners that facilitates peer-to-peer learning, information exchange, and collaborative engagement to advance coastal flooding science, knowledge and solutions.
As climate change impacts worsen, so does coastal inundation - water on normally dry ground as a result of flooding. This is a complex problem that requires a multidisciplinary, long-term, coordinated effort to address. The impact of coastal inundation can be devastating, leading to property damage, displacement of populations, and loss of life. Collaboration across the public, private, non-profit, and academic sectors ensures that the best available knowledge and expertise are being utilized to address inundation in coastal communities. NOAA's Office for Coastal Management (OCM), the National Sea Grant Office (NSGO), and the American Society of Adaptation Professionals (ASAP) are collaboratively building and facilitating the Coastal Inundation Community of Practice to advance resilience to flooding now and in the future.
Past Events
In Person Event: Coastal Inundation Community of Practice Workshop
November 12-14 | Seattle, WA
Join us for the 2024 Coastal Inundation Community of Practice Workshop. This in-person workshop is a unique opportunity to build relationships among 100 coastal flooding practitioners representing diverse trans-disciplinary perspectives. This event is designed to create space for practitioners to learn from one another and foster networks of peer support.
Resources
Newsletter Archive
In May, the Coastal Inundation Community of Practice hosted a webinar on vulnerability assessments. During the webinar, we discussed common terminology and heard case studies from Maine, California, and Hawaiʻi. Speakers focused on the vulnerability assessment planning process and execution, stakeholder engagement, and high-level results from their efforts.
In case you missed it, here is:
- a link to the recording,
- an overview of the slides presented - VA Webinar Slides - May 2024
Ways to Get Involved
- Sign up to join the Coastal Inundation CoP listserv and be the first to receive updates on programming and events.
Learn More About the Coastal Inundation Community of Practice
Coastal inundation is defined as water on normally dry ground as a result of flooding in communities adjacent to oceans, major estuaries, or the Great Lakes. Coastal inundation can be caused by sea level rise, storm surge, wind, waves, high tide flooding, heavy precipitation, and/or lake level change, among other physical processes, and can have temporary and permanent flooding impacts.
Coastal resilience is the ability of populations, ecosystems, and economies to prepare for, absorb, respond to, recover from, and successfully adapt to the impacts of natural and human-caused hazards, such as hurricanes and oil spills, and long-term environmental change, such as habitat loss and sea level rise.
A Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of professionals, informally bound to one another through the common pursuit of solutions through shared interests. Communities of Practice are a way of developing social capital, nurturing new knowledge, stimulating innovation, and learning from one another.
All practitioners addressing current and future coastal flooding in the U.S. states and territories are welcome to join the Coastal Inundation Community of Practice. State and local government staff, consultants, engagement professionals, resilience coordinators, and others may find value in participating.
To address any post-event queries you might have, we’ve compiled a FAQ document. You can access it here.
Implementation Team
Thank you to the Implementation Team for helping guide the Coastal Inundation Community of Practice! Meet the team:
Lisa Auermuller
Associate Director, Rutgers – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (MACH)
Henry Bell
Coastal Planner, Washington’s Coastal Zone Management Program at the Department of Ecology
Renee Collini
Director, Gulf Center for Equitable Climate Resilience at The Water Institute
Annie Cox
Watershed Resilience Manager, Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership
Eleanor Rappolee
GIS Research Analyst, Flood Science Center at the Association of State Floodplain Managers
Ariam L. Torres Cordero
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Planning, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Jen West
Coastal Training Program Coordinator, Narragansett Bay Research Reserve
Contact
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Funding is made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, a historic, federal government-wide investment that is advancing NOAA's efforts to build Climate-Ready Coasts.