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PREP-RI | Providing Resilience Education for Planning in Rhode Island

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Module Description
This online module series aims to increase the capacity of municipal decision makers to make effective choices supporting resilience to the impacts from climate change. Considering current and future impacts helps shape decisions that enhance the health, safety, and welfare of Rhode Island’s communities. The brief modules provide an understanding of the implications of a changing climate in Rhode Island. Each module consists of a voice-over PowerPoint, speaker notes, and a resources document. Relevant examples and lessons learned from Rhode Island communities are included, as well as ways to use various resources and tools in decision making. PREP-RI builds upon existing state efforts and is the product of collaboration among experts from a variety of fields. While this series is primarily geared toward coastal municipalities, much of the information will be helpful for inland communities as well as other public- and private-sector stakeholders throughout the state.
External Link
http://prep-ri.seagrant.gso.uri.edu/
Source Organization URL
Rhode Island Sea Grant
Type of Training
Online, Self-Guided
Difficulty Scale
Beginner

Extreme Event Game

This in-person role-playing game gives participants a taste of what it takes to build community resilience in the face of disaster. Players work together to make decisions and solve problems during an engaging, fast-paced disaster simulation. Choose a disaster scenario (flood, hurricane, or earthquake).

Cattle Heat Stress Forecast Maps

Seven-day forecasts of temperature, humidity, wind speed, and cloud cover from the National Weather Service serve as inputs for Cattle Heat Stress Forecast Maps. The prediction of animal stress is based on an equation that combines weather forecast data to estimate cattle heat stress response, and produces a map showing stress categories by color. The U.S. Department of Agriculture offers daily maps for the current day and forecasted out six additional days, and provides maps for six regions of the contiguous United States.

How to Consider Climate Change in Coastal Conservation

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Module Description
This course covers a step-by-step approach that can be used to create a new conservation plan or update an existing one that incorporates climate change information. It is suitable for anyone working to manage or conserve lands in coastal areas. This includes wetland, floodplain, or emergency managers, planners, or conservation organizations. The course's six iterative steps draw from existing strategic conservation planning frameworks; however, the steps here focus on climate considerations and key resources relevant to the coastal environment, including coastal watersheds.
External Link
https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/training/coastal-conservation.html
Source Organization URL
NOAA Digital Coast
Type of Training
Online, Self-Guided
Difficulty Scale
Beginner

Hawai'i Social Network Analysis

In 2012, Pacific RISA launched a multi-year social network analysis project to examine communication patterns and how climate information spreads across different sectors and places in the Pacific Islands region. Using the December 2012 release of the Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA) report as a springboard, researchers collected data on the professional and scientific networks of climate change stakeholders.

Sea Level Rise Hawaii

This website discusses projected sea level rise impacts in the Hawaiian Islands and offers visualizations of projected sea level rise, coastal erosion, and flooding impacts created by the Coastal Geology Group of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. The visualizations are available in various formats, including still map images, animated fly-overs, and PowerPoint presentations.

Climate Change Adaptation Planning Manual for Coastal Alaskans and Marine-Dependent Communities

This manual is for extension professionals, tribal planners, community organizers, local planning officials, teachers, or anyone else whose task is to help individuals, families, businesses, communities, tribes, and local governments think through the meaning of climate change on the local scale, assess vulnerabilities, devise strategies for improving resilience, locate tools and resources that will help, and develop and implement plans for adaptation.

Alaska Arctic Observatory and Knowledge Hub

This website provides Northern Alaska coastal communities with the tools, resources, and scientific support to share their expertise and observations of environmental change. Observations currently focus on changes in sea ice, permafrost, and coastal waters. Community-based observations and the joint development of a knowledge resource on cryosphere change will be used to aid in knowledge sharing and will emphasize changes in the seasonal cycle as it affects community activities and access to resources and subsistence harvest species.

Bering Strait Response Teaching Tool

This resource was designed as both a teaching tool and a pathway for sharing information and resources amongst Bering Strait indigenous communities, spill response organizations, agencies, scientists, and the public to improve community engagement in spill response and preparedness due to increased threats posed to Arctic marine life from oil spills. The web mapping portal aggregates data from ocean waters in Norton Sound, the Bering Strait, and Kotzebue Sound.

The BSRTT consists of a Data Layer Catalog, an Interactive Ocean Portal, and Oil Spill Scenarios.

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