Description
This series encourages the exchange of ideas, approaches, successes, and challenges— and fosters future collaborations among coastal managers, decision-makers, stewards, and practitioners implementing nature-based solutions.
Register for an upcoming live webinar here, or watch one of the previously recorded webinars below.
Learning Outcomes
- Access ideas for new techniques or practices, designs, partnerships, workforce development, maintenance, and monitoring
- Identify ways to overcome common challenges associated with the implementation of nature-based solutions
Recordings
Webinar 1: Leveraging Transportation Partnerships
May 28, 2024
Experts in the field discussed how they leveraged transportation partnerships to implement approaches to protect transportation routes and prevent flooding, including restoring historic hydrologic connections, restoring mangroves, and creating dynamic revetments.
Speakers:
- Jeff Carter, Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
- Henry Bell, Washington State Coastal Zone Management Program
- Chelsey Martin, Washington State Department of Transportation
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Webinar 2: Training Programs for Practitioners
August 22, 2024
This webinar showcases two programs. The first features Ohio’s Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve and focuses on a Shoreline Training Program for Ohio’s Lake Erie coast. The second is from Florida Sea Grant (University of Florida) and focuses on a statewide project that trains marine contractors in sustainable and resilient ways to manage coastal erosion.
Speakers:
- Emily Kuzmick, Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve
- Armando Ubeda, Florida Sea Grant at University of Florida
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