Florida Coastal Resilience Workshop
The Florida Coastal Resilience Workshop for planners and engineers is a Florida Silver Jackets initiative conducted between April and June of 2022 to increase community resilience to coastal storms and sea level rise and facilitate compliance with state laws, statutes, and requirements by providing hands-on training with tools developed by state and federal agencies to assess, communicate, and address risk to Florida communities.
The regional workshops (Atlantic Coast and Gulf Coast) centered the training modules around the state of Florida laws and requirement associated with coastal resilience in order to facilitate compliance. The state agencies presented on four requirements to set the stage for the tools presented during the workshop. The remaining workshop training modules provided background and basic training on publicly accessible tools and resources to be used within the context of Florida requirements to assess, communicate, and address rick. The Florida requirements served as a constraint over the tools selected for workshop. The applied exercises provided hands-on training with the tools developed by state and federal agencies geared towards the respective coast (Atlantic Coast, Gulf Coast). The first two days of the three-day regional workshop focused on assessing and communicating flood risk, and the third day outlined additional tools and resources that can be used to begin addressing the risk.
The technical workshop took a deeper dive into a couple newer tools presented during the regional workshops and outlined how they can be used for site application or modeling purposes. The first tool presented was the NOAA Adapting Storm Water Management for Coastal Floods developed by the NOAA Office for coastal management to analyze stormwater systems for scenario development based on user inputs. The second tool presented was developed by the USACE Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) through the South Atlantic Coastal Study (SACS) called the Coastal Hazards System (CHS). The CHS training module outlined how planners and engineers can access high-fidelity numerical modeling (coupled hydrodynamic and waves) to identify probabilistic water levels based of annual exceedance probability storm events and sea level rise scenarios when designing and planning flood risk mitigation projects.
The state and federal partners made these workshops possible. The state partners consisted of the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) which served as the state lead for this effort, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (FDEO), the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), and the University of Florida (UF) GeoPlan Center. The Federal partners consisted on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) through the Florida Silver Jackets initiative. Training credits were available for each day of the workshop. Continuing Education Credits were available for Certified Floodplain Managers and certification maintenance credits were available for American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) members. Credits were awarded based on attendance and participation.
Presentations
Recordings
Day 1 of the Gulf Coast Workshop outlines Florida laws and requirements related to coastal resilience including the State and County Mitigation Plans presented by FDEM, the Peril of Flood Act requirements presented by FDEO, and Resilience Programs and Requirements presented by FDEP. The last hour overviews prominent NOAA tools consisting of the Sea Level Rise Viewer and the Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper outlining how these tools can be used to assess and communicate risk in compliance with state requirements for communities along tidally-influenced Gulf of Mexico coastlines.
Day 2 of the Gulf Coast Workshop starts with the new SLIP rule and tool presented by FDEP followed by FDOT and the UF GeoPlan Center to review transportation resilience programs and the Sea Level Scenario Sketch Planning Tool. The last hour and a half outlines three South Atlantic Coastal Study (SACS) key products consisting of the Tier 1 Risk Assessment, the Tier 2 Economic Risk Assessment, and the Coastal Hazards System (CHS). The live demonstrations of the publicly-accessible tools highlight communities along tidally-influenced Gulf of Mexico coastlines.
Day 3 of the Gulf Coast Workshop begins with tools developed for additional resiliency considerations such as stormwater management and exposure to vulnerable populations through the Adapting Stormwater Management for Coastal Floods tool presented by NOAA and the Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool presented by the EPA. The final three modules outline tools and resources available to begin addressing the risk to communities along tidally-influenced Gulf of Mexico coastlines. The resources highlighted include of the South Atlantic Coastal Study (SACS) Measures and Cost Library and Coastal Program Guide, NOAA’s Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Hazards, and other applicable state and federal funding and grant opportunities.
Day 1 of the Atlantic Coast Workshop outlines Florida laws and requirements related to coastal resilience including the State and County Mitigation Plans presented by FDEM, the Peril of Flood Act requirements presented by FDEO, and Resilience Programs and Requirements presented by FDEP. The last hour overviews prominent NOAA tools including the Sea Level Rise Viewer and Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper outlining how these tools can be used to assess and communicate risk in compliance with state requirements for communities along tidally-influenced Atlantic Ocean coastlines.
Day 2 of the Atlantic Coast Workshop starts with the new SLIP rule and tool presented by FDEP followed by FDOT and the UF GeoPlan Center to review transportation resiliency programs and the Sea Level Scenario Sketch Planning Tool. The last hour and a half outlines three South Atlantic Coastal Study (SACS) key products consisting of the Tier 1 Risk Assessment, the Tier 2 Economic Risk Assessment, and the Coastal Hazards System (CHS). The live demonstrations of the publicly-accessible tools highlight communities along tidally-influenced Atlantic Ocean coastlines.
Day 3 of the Atlantic Coast Workshop begins with tools developed for additional resiliency considerations such as stormwater management and exposure to vulnerable populations through the Adapting Stormwater Management for Coastal Floods tool presented by NOAA and the Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool presented by the EPA. The final three modules outline tools and resources available to begin addressing the risk to communities along tidally-influenced Atlantic Ocean coastlines. The resources highlighted include of the South Atlantic Coastal Study (SACS) Measures and Cost Library and Coastal Program Guide, NOAA’s Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Hazards, and other applicable state and federal funding and grant opportunities.
The Technical Workshop provides in-depth explanation and demonstration of the Adapting Stormwater Management for Coastal Floods tool presented by the NOAA Office for Coastal Management and the Coastal Hazards System (CHS) developed by the USACE Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) through the South Atlantic Coastal Study (SACS). The training modules outline how these tools can be used for site application and modeling purposes when designing and planning flood risk mitigation projects.