About the Workshop
NOAA's Office for Coastal Management (OCM), the National Sea Grant Office (NSGO), and the American Society of Adaptation Professionals (ASAP) hosted the 2024 Coastal Inundation Community of Practice Workshop on November 12-14, 2024, at the University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture in Seattle, Washington. This workshop brought together 100 coastal flooding practitioners representing diverse transdisciplinary perspectives. This in-person workshop provided a unique opportunity to build relationships among practitioners from across the country. Coastal communities faced tremendous inundation threats, and local practitioners addressed these challenges with innovative solutions that transformed coastal ecosystems, built environments, and socioeconomic structures.
The event was designed to allow practitioners to learn from one another and foster networks of peer support. Participants:
- Built relationships with colleagues nationwide who were addressing inundation challenges.
- Heard and exchanged innovative approaches for tackling inundation challenges in local communities.
- Shared and learned about the latest scientific data, tools, and modeling advances related to inundation.
- Explored and co-developed products to address inundation questions.
- Helped shape the future activities and direction of the Coastal Inundation Community of Practice.
Lightning Talk Sessions
Inundation Modeling
Road Flooding in Coastal Connecticut
- Jim O’Donnell, Connecticut Institute for Resilience & Climate Adaptation (CIRCA)
NOAA’s National Water Model (NWM)
- Trey Flowers and Brian Cosgrove, NOAA National Weather Service, Office of Water Prediction
Tsunami Inundation Modeling and Forecasting
- Ernesto Guerrero-Fernandez and Yong Wei, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) and University of Washington
Inundation Technology Innovations
Public-private Partnerships for Improved Monitoring, Alerting, and Predictions of Hyperlocal Flooding
- Brian Glazer, Hohonu
Leveraging FloodVision to inform Resilience Decision-Making
- Dan Rizza, Climate Central
- Fara Ilami, Northeast Florida Regional Council
Alaska Flood Inundation Tool (AK-FIT)
- Keith Horen, Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys
Diving Into the Digital Coast
- Bret Folger and Maravilla Clemens, NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Community Centered Resilience
Community-led Climate Resilience Programs in Urban and Rural Communities
- Qiyamah Williams, Mississippi State University Coastal Research and Extension Center /Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant
Increasing Community Resilience through Washington State's inter-agency Coastal Hazard Organizational Resilience Team (COHORT)
- Ellen Chappelka, Washington State Emergency Management Division
- Sanpisa Sritrairat, Washington Sea Grant
Bridging Communities: Evaluating Engagement Strategies in the Connecticut Community Participation and Risk Communication Pilot
- Sarah Schechter, Connecticut Sea Grant
Participant responses to the questions: "What can we do together?"
Workshop Gallery
Ways to Get Involved with the Coastal Inundation Community of Practice
- Sign up to join the Coastal Inundation CoP listserv and be the first to receive updates on programming and events.
The 2024 Coastal Inundation Community of Practice workshop is brought to you by NOAA's Office for Coastal Management (OCM), the National Sea Grant Office (NSGO), and the American Society of Adaptation Professionals (ASAP).