Workshop Materials

• Event program (including agenda, handouts, and glossary)
• Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard exercise handouts

Group Exercise: The Coast Model of the Watershed Game for Local Leaders

The Watershed Game is an interactive tool that helps participants learn how a variety of land uses impact water and natural resources, increase their knowledge of best management practices (BMPs), and learn how their choices can prevent adverse impacts. The Coast Model represents a typical coastal community or estuary. It includes resilience to community flooding in addition to achieving a clean water goal.

• Maggie Karschnia, Extension Educator, Water Resources Center, Minnesota Sea Grant, University of Minnesota

Natural Systems within the Great Lakes Region

This panel session will explore natural systems within the Great Lakes region with a focus on lake level fluctuations, uncertainty in forecasting, and compound flood risks to coastal properties.

• Understanding & Predicting Water Level Fluctuations | Presentation Slides
  • Riley Ravary, Ph.D., Lead Research Engagement Specialist, Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR), University of Michigan

• Great Lakes Coastal Flood Processes | Presentation Slides
  • Adam Bechle, Coastal Engineering Outreach Specialist, University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute

• Natural Systems within the Great Lakes Region | Presentation Slides
  • Chin H. Wu, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director, Coastal Resilience and Sustainability-Environmental Fluid Mechanics Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Resources to Aid in Coastal Resilience Efforts

This panel session will explore resources available to aid in coastal resilience efforts, such as data, tools, trainings, communities of practice, technical assistance, guides, etc.

• Resources for Coastal Climate Resilience | Presentation Slides
  • Kim Channell, GLISA Climatologist, University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability

• NOAA Resources to Support Resilience | Presentation Slides
  • Rebecca Nicodemus, Environmental Scientist / Great Lakes Learning Coordinator, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

Value Based Communications

This session will focus on how to effect change through value based communication.

• Value Based Communications | Presentation Slides
  • Kindy Kruller, AICP, Director, MUSE Community + Design

Team Strategy Session #1: Wrapping Up the Self-Assessment

This session will explore the results of the coastal resilience assessments completed for Minnesota Point, St. Clair Shores, and New Baltimore. The assessments focus on coastal hazard impacts and preparedness, awareness and use of resilience practices, and generating ideas for resilience actions. The presentation will allow for comparison between the assessments and allow time for discussion of the results.

• Wrapping Up the Self-Assessment | Presentation Slides
  • David Hart, Ph.D., Assistant Director for Extension, Wisconsin Sea Grant

Spotlight on the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District

• Spotlight on the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District | Presentation Slides
  • Kevin Shafer, Executive Director, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District

Natural and Nature-Based Solutions for Shorelines and Stormwater

This panel session will explore coastal resilience strategies with a focus on how nature-based solutions, especially those related to stormwater, can be used to increase resilience and reduce flood risk.

• Resources on Nature-Based Options for Great Lakes Coasts | Presentation Slides
  • Lydia Salus, Project Coordinator, Wisconsin Coastal Management Program

• Nature Based Solutions for Community Resilience | Presentation Slides
  • Katherine Grantham, Environment and Infrastructure Planner, SEMCOG

Equity and Engaging Marginalized Groups in Planning

This session will explore the importance of equity in planning, including strategies to better and more successfully engage marginalized groups, and ensuring everyone has a seat at the table.

• Equity and Engaging Marginalized Groups in Planning | Presentation Slides
  • Kindy Kruller, AICP, Director, MUSE Community + Design

Team Strategy Session #2: Digging into the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard

This session will encourage participants to craft implementable policies and understand interdependencies that can positively or negatively impact local resilience. Participants will implement PIRS guidance for effective policy-building, review policy scorecards from their communities, and discuss next steps for continuing plan integration in their own communities.

• Digging into the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard | Presentation Slides | Presentation Handout
  • Jo Pena, Senior Research Associate, American Planning Association
  • Phil Berke, Research Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Jaimie Hicks Masterson, AICP, Director of Texas Target Communities (TTC), Texas A&M University
  • Matthew Malecha, PhD, Instructional Assistant Professor, Dept. of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, School of Architecture, Texas A&M University
  • Siyu Yu, Ph.D., AICP, Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, School of Architecture, Texas A&M University

Spotlight on the FEMA Community Rating System (CRS)

The Community Rating System (CRS) is a voluntary incentive program that recognizes and encourages community floodplain management practices that exceed the minimum requirements of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). In CRS communities, flood insurance premium rates are discounted to reflect the reduced flood risk resulting from the community’s efforts. This session will provide an overview of the CRS program, including the pros and cons of participation and resources available from NOAA Digital Coast to aid communities in their pursuit of flood mitigation benefits for their residents.

• Spotlight on CRS | Presentation Slides
  • John Ryan-Henry, Policy Analyst, Coastal States Organization

Vulnerability Assessments

This session will focus on our program’s vulnerability assessments and scenario planning process.

• Overview of the Vulnerability Assessment Process | Presentation Slides
  • Eleanor Rappolee, M.S., GIS Research Analyst, Association of State Floodplain Managers

• Using Scenario-Based Planning to Improve Coastal Shoreland Management on Michigan’s Great Lakes | Presentation Slides
  • Richard Norton, Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, Professor of Program in the Environment, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

• Getting the Data for Conducting a Vulnerability Assessment | (presentation slides continue from Overview of the Vulnerability Assessment Process slides above)
  • Eleanor Rappolee, M.S., GIS Research Analyst, Association of State Floodplain Managers

Team Strategy Session #3: Kickoff of Team Vulnerability Assessments and Scenario Planning

• Exercise 1: Getting the Data. Walk through the data checklist and think about which data sets the community needs to complete a vulnerability assessment. See pages 8-9 of the event program.
• Exercise 2: Scenario-Planning. Examining climate futures and management options. See pages 10-15 of the event program.

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