Training
Learning Coastal Resilience: Video Tutorials
Welcome to our new, interactive e-learning page. These Show Me videos serve as introduction to the decision support tool, covering basic functionality of the tool interface as well as its use in scenario planning. Click on an image below to view these introductory tutorials.
Coastal Resilience Mapping Tool Overview
The Coastal Resilience web mapping portal allows users to visualize ecological, social, and economic information alongside sea level rise and storm surge scenarios. The tool also includes customized applications or “apps” that cater to the needs of stakeholders, policies and planning processes.
Introduction to Scenario Planning
This video continues with the basic navigation of the Coastal Resilience web mapping framework, covering split screen scenario planning, sharing and saving, and exporting.
Mapping Portal General Navigation
This is an introductory video that provides an overview of the basic navigation of the Coastal Resilience web mapping framework.
Interactive Tutorials
These Try Me videos will guide you through the use of the specific apps in Coastal Resilience. They are intended as a primer to understanding both the uses of an app and the decisions they are meant to support. Click on an image below to start building your Coastal Resilience web app skills!
Coastal Defense: Southeast Florida
Coastal Defense quantifies how natural habitats protect coastal areas by reducing wave-induced erosion and inundation. In Southeast Florida, Coastal Defense helps identify the wave attenuation and coastal protection services provided by coral reefs, mangrove wetlands, and artificial underwater structures under a variety of current and future scenarios.
Coastline Change App Tutorial
Take this step-by-step tutorial to learn how to use both the Historical Data and Future Scenarios modules of the Coastline Change app.
Community Rating System Explorer
The Community Rating System Explorer helps planners identify areas that are eligible for Open Space Preservation (OSP) credits in FEMA’s Community Rating System (CRS), a voluntary program that encourages improved floodplain management through discounted flood insurance premiums, and provides exportable information to support the application process.
Flood and Sea Level Rise App Tutorial
Take this step-by-step tutorial to learn how to use the Flood and Sea Level Rise app.
Living Shoreline Tutorial
Take this step-by-step tutorial to learn how to use the Living Shoreline app.
Success Stories
These videos illustrate the use of the Coastal Resilience tool in specific projects around the U.S. and internationally. Specific apps are demonstrated in support of conservation, restoration and adaptation planning.
Comparing the benefits of nature-based and armoring approaches to climate adaptation
Learn how the Economics of Nature-based adaptation tool helps coastal managers understand the physical and economic impacts of a number of realistic coastal adaptation approaches for Ventura County.
Evaluating the protective services of coastal habitats in South Florida
See how stakeholders in South Florida are using the Coastal Defense app to evaluate the combined protective services provided by corals, mangroves, and artificial underwater structures.
Flooding and Sea Level Rise on Virginia’s Eastern Shore
Watch this 90-second video to get a brief introduction about the Flood and Sea Level Rise app functionalities.
Future Habitat Digital Story
Watch this 90-second video to get a brief introduction about the Future Habitat app functionalities.
Grenada ESRI Video
This video, produced by TNC and ESRI, shares the story of the At the Waters Edge project, an innovative coral reef restoration project aimed to reduce vulnerability to climate change in Grenville, Grenada.
Grenada IH Cantabria Video
This video was produced by IH Cantabria and TNC to illustrate how models reveal reef loss in Grenville, Grenada, the subsequent erosion and flooding, and more importantly how reef restoration can reduce those risks by changing waves and currents.
Identifying Living Shorelines for a Changing Coast
The Restoration Explorer is a web based mapping tool that allows communities and their partners to examine what types of living shorelines are most appropriate for a particular location. Utilizing the Restoration Explorer during the initial steps of developing a shoreline stabilization project can help communities identify where greener options are applicable – allowing them to respond to shoreline erosion while maintaining and/or enhancing the health of coastal habitats.
Linking Apps to a Process: Identifying Open Spaces in Connecticut
See how stakeholders in Old Saybrook, CT used multiple Coastal Resilience apps in a process to inform the community about where marsh advancement will likely occur and to help identify adaptive solutions to improve community resilience.
Preview: The Economics of Coastal Adaptation in the Gulf of Mexico
An innovative partnership between the reinsurance company Swiss Re and The Nature Conservancy, aims to demonstrate that the cost and benefits of natural and built solutions can be examined together using industry-based approaches and open source tools.
Resilient Islands Decision Support Tool
Learn how the Resilient Islands decision support tool provides a step-wise process for adaptation planning across Grenada, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic.
Visualizing Shoreline Change Along Virginia’s Coast
Watch this 90-second video to get a brief introduction about the Coastline Change app functionalities.