Date: March 21, 2019
Time: 9AM-5PM (Lunch is included)
Location: Mission Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve Estuarine Research Center (ERC)
This one-day training, with materials prepared by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Office for Coastal Management (OCM) and delivered by Coastal Training Program Coordinator Dr. Kelly Dunning covers a step by step methodology for how decision-makers, planners, and resource managers can consider climate change in conservation planning. The training will take place from 9 am to 5 pm at the Mission Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute. We will review relevant tools, data, and reports that will assist coastal decision-makers in linking conservation and climate change.
NOAA’S OCM has designed a six-step process to consider climate change in conservation planning, with useful tools and resources. This training at the Mission Aransas Reserve is the first of 3 in this series to be offered in 2019 and it covers Step 1: Articulating Conservation Goals and the Scope of Conservation Projects and Step 2: Identifying Conservation Targets and Their Supporting Attributes. In May of 2019, the second workshop in this series will take place covering Step 3: Identifying Non-Climate Stressors and Evaluating their Impact on Conservation Targets and Step 4: Identifying Climate Stressors and Evaluating their Impact on Conservation Targets. In summer of 2019, the third and final workshop in this series will cover Step 5: Reviewing Goals and Management Strategies and Step 6: Formulating Long-term Management Plans Based on Selected Strategies.
Agenda
8:30 AM Arrive and sign in, coffee and light breakfast provided
9:00 AM training overview and introductions
Step 1: Articulating conservation goals and scope: What do you aim to conserve and who are your stakeholders?
9:30-10:15 AM Determining geographic scope
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- Identifying goals, objectives, and targets; clarifying conservation goals; specifying geographic scope and time frame
- Watershed or County Boundaries? A case study from coastal Louisiana
- Using the C-CAP Coastal Comparison Tool
10:15-11:00 AM Understanding relevant policy or management drivers
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- How to achieve hazard resilience while incorporating your conservation efforts into community design
- How to get points through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Community Rating System (CRS) by preserving natural areas within the floodplain
11:00 AM breakout activity: groups plan conservation projects with geographic scope, outline policy drivers, identify stakeholders, establish goals
12:00 PM Lunch (provided)
1:00 PM Identifying and engaging stakeholder interests
- How to engage partners
- How to engage stakeholders
- Stakeholder analyses: what is the basic process to identify them and design the best participatory process
- Sample list of partners/stakeholders to engage
1:45 PM Break
2: 00 Establishing your conservation goals
- Setting goals for coastal adaptation
- How to identify a conservation goal
- Sample goals: wetland conservation, restoration, erosion, shoreline protection, non-point source pollution, climate change, land use planning
2:45 Break
3:00 Identifying Conservation Targets and their supporting attributes
- Identification of conservation targets using Open Standards for Conservation
- Using National Wetlands Inventory to set conservation targets
- Habitat Priority Planner to classify habitat types
- Natural Heritage Data
- Essential Fish Habitat Mapper
- Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper
- Protected Areas Databases
- National Conservation Easement Database
4:00 final breakout activity: setting conservation targets for your community
4:30 concluding thoughts and wrap up