WASHINGTON COASTAL HAZARDS RESILIENCE NETWORK
Our goal is to strengthen the resilience of Washington’s coastal communities through collaboration, education, and knowledge exchange. This website provides a curated selection of relevant science, best practices, and other resources related to coastal hazards in Washington.
This website will guide you in the process of learning about coastal hazards, direct you to Washington-specific tools and resources, provide you with examples of projects happening along the coast, and connect you with people who are involved in this work.
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Natural Hazards Mitigation and Risk Reduction Survey
By Alex Rosen, Assistant Coastal Planner, WA Department of Ecology
As our ability to characterize hazardous areas improves with advances in science and technology, many communities have information to help identify vulnerability and risk to natural hazards along our shorelines – wind, waves, flood, landslide, erosion, earthquake and tsunami, and sea level rise. However, once these hazardous areas are delineated, it is challenging to figure out what comes next.
A partnership of agencies, non-profits, academic institutions, and policy advisory groups are working to collectively expand resources and capacity to better support community resilience initiatives. The purpose of this survey is to gather examples of natural hazard risk reduction projects from marine, estuarine, and riverine shorelines.
A partnership of agencies, non-profits, academic institutions, and policy advisory groups are working to collectively expand resources and capacity to better support community resilience initiatives. The purpose of this survey is to gather examples of natural hazard risk reduction projects from marine, estuarine, and riverine shorelines.
The survey is brief and can be completed by anyone, whether a project manager for a risk reduction project or a homeowner. Even if you only have familiarity with a project and were not directly involved, we are happy to receive your submission!
Take the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CoastalNaturalHazards
Survey feedback will be used to help guide the development of a series of case studies and best practices that will provide:
Take the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CoastalNaturalHazards
Survey feedback will be used to help guide the development of a series of case studies and best practices that will provide:
- Feasible options for on-the-ground risk reduction;
- Resources that were needed to complete the projects;
- Opportunities for improvements in regulatory approaches;
- Benefits of the projects;
- Lessons learned from experiences; and
- Detailed information on how to apply these examples in different locations.
Our goal is to create a product that reduces the amount of time required by a community to research risk reduction options and provide information that helps narrow the focus on pursuing projects that have a higher likelihood of success.
We need your help! Please complete the survey as many times as needed and distribute widely, forward on to anyone else who might be interested.
Thank you for your help,
Alex Rosen
Assistant Coastal Planner
Alex.Rosen@ecy.wa.gov
360-407-7125
Upcoming Events
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Tue
21
North Pacific Coast Marine Resource Committee meeting
January 21 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Mon
27
Wahkiakum County Marine Resources Committee meeting
January 27 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Feb
18
North Pacific Coast Marine Resource Committee meeting
February 18 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Introducing a new option for connecting with CHRN: Open Form/Drop-in Office Hours!
We are happy to announce that we are now offering “office hours” in the form of a virtual open forum/drop-in option. This new opportunity spawns from 2024 Annual Meeting Feedback, which included lots of interest in connecting more frequently with other CHRN members throughout the year. Helpful info:
- What: Open Forum/Drop-In Office Hours
- Why: Ask questions to CHRN coordinators and Members, provide and receive updates on coastal resilience work, connect with other Members, etc.
- When: CHRN coordinators will be available for 45 min after each CHRN Lunch & Learn event for the Open Forum/Drop-in, see Lunch and Learn Series page here. The next Open Forum/Drop-in office hours will be November 19 at 12pm (following the Lunch & Learn from 11am-12pm).
- How: Zoom meeting (use this link here).
- Who: Anyone is invited to hop in to these! Drop-in to ask questions, provide updates, or just to say hello!
The contents of this website, including the blog and links to other sites, are provided for informational use and may not reflect the positions and priorities of all network members, including Washington Sea Grant and the Department of Ecology. Comments posted to this site do not constitute formal public comment. Washington Department of Ecology, Washington Sea Grant, and network members do not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of information contained on any linked websites.
