This enewsletter from the DNREC Delaware Coastal Training Program (CTP) features resources that are available for Delaware's community leaders and natural resource managers to help us plan smarter for safer and more sustainable communities!
The roundup includes highlights of upcoming trainings, tools, technical assistance programs, and funding sources from the CTP as well as other local practitioners and technical experts. Please be in touch if you have more updates to share or are looking for additional info!
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Training & In Person Learning Opportunities
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Using research to answer pressing coastal management questions.
The 2019 Delaware Applied Coastal Research Symposium, hosted by the Division of Climate, Coastal, and Energy’s Coastal Programs, will bring together local coastal and estuary scientists and resource managers to promote research, to network, and to encourage collaboration to advance research for coastal management priorities.
This day-long symposium, on March 27, at Clayton Hall, in Newark, will feature presentations from local researchers on a diverse set of coastal topics, including student presentations. It will provide opportunities throughout the day to foster future research connections, including a poster session covering a wide range of coastal research topics.
Event is free but registration is required.
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Register by March 20 to join in in this important dialog for connecting research to coastal resource management!
Space is limited, sign up today!
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CALL FOR POSTERS:
Interested presenters are invited to submit abstracts for poster displays. Symposium planners are hoping for a broad selection of posters and a variety of topics to be featured during a lunchtime networking session. Follow the instructions on this registration site to access the application form. Submissions require a poster title and a brief description of your work (50 words or less). Submit your poster abstract along with your registration!
Final deadline for poster abstract submissions is March 11, 2019
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Building Risk Communication Skills Training
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Day of Technical Assistance for Applying Risk Communication Skills
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Registration Now Open for Both Days!
Communicate Risks. Inspire Action.
Building Risk Communication Skills Training April 10, 2019
Technical Assistance for Applying Risk Communication Skills April 11, 2019
*must attend April 10 to attend April 11
St. Jones Reserve Coastal Training Center, Dover
Join subject matter experts with the NOAA Office for Coastal Management for an informative training on April 10 to build your risk communication skills, and then return the next day, April 11, for a session of direct technical assistance with them to develop strategies for incorporating these new practices into your programs and projects!
The Building Risk Communication Skills training shares insights into why people respond to risk the way they do. Participants will hear about examples and case studies, and then will learn tips for working with residents and communities to explore solutions and make decisions that improve their resilience to current and future hazards.
Hosted by the DNREC Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve's Coastal Training Program with funding from the National Estuarine Research Reserve's Science Collaborative Transfer Grant.
Events are free but registration is required.
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Day 1: Weds. April 10, 2019 Building Risk Communication Skills Training
The job of discussing potential natural hazard risks and solutions—and motivating people to take action—is definitely not a “one size fits all” challenge. In this course, participants will learn how to:
- Respond to difficult questions with more confidence using social science and risk communication principles;
- Develop an effective risk communication strategy that incorporates these principles;
- Recognize differing values within their audience;
- Identify why people perceive and respond to risk the way they do; and
- Practice these new skills.
Day 2: Thurs. April 11, 2019 Technical Assistance for Applying Risk Communication Skills
NOAA trainers will be spend a full day working with participants to assist them as they practice their skills and develop strategies for integrating risk communication skills into their projects and/or programmatic work.
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Planning for Meaningful Evaluation
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Wednesday, May 1 - Thursday, May 2, 2019
St. Jones Reserve Coastal Training Center, Dover
$50 Registration fee covers lunch and refreshments.
Do you ever ask yourself, “Is my program designed to reach its goals?” or “How do I measure the performance of my existing program?” We would like to help you answer those questions.
This training addresses in detail the increasing demand for evidence of program accountability and impact by preparing participants for a meaningful evaluation. Participants will actively engage in creating a comprehensive evaluation plan. The purpose of the training is to provide an in depth understanding of the elements of evaluation, so that participants are able to make informed choices to create fundamentally sound evaluation plans for existing or longstanding programs.
Logic modeling is a concept at the heart of the effective program design and meaningful evaluation techniques taught in course. Participants in the workshop will be expected to understand logic modeling and are encouraged to bring a working or draft logic model built for your program with you to use during the workshop.
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This workshop requires previous training in the development and use of logic models. If you have attended NOAA’s Planning Effective Projects workshop or you have other training in the development and use of logic models then you may attend this workshop.
Who should take this course:
County, municipal and community leaders, regional and municipal planners, state agency staff, natural resource managers, non-profit and academic-based collaborative supporters & organizers, and more.
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Army Corps of Engineers 101 Workshop
(previously advertised as WRRDA 7001 program information)
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Friday, March 29, 2019
DelDOT Administration Building
800 Bay Road, Dover, Delaware 19901
9am to 4pm (with a brown bag lunch break for networking)
At the request of Senator Carper, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) will be providing a day long workshop on how to better work with the agency. As you know, the Corps is an agency in the Department of Defense with both military and civil works responsibilities, however this workshop will focus on the civil works programs.
The Corps plans, builds, operates, and maintains a range of water resource and related recreation facilities. Its civil works responsibilities are principally to support navigation, reduce flood and storm damage, and protect and restore aquatic ecosystems. The agency also has several water resources regulatory responsibilities and issues multiple types of permits. In Delaware, key projects have included maintaining the shipping channels in the Port of Wilmington to Beach renourishment projects throughout Sussex county.
This event is an opportunity for Delawareans to better understand the Corps and to grow and advance working relationships on these key initiatives.
Unfortunately, for this first event, due to space limitations and an ability for each individual to get the most out of the workshop, each organization/community is limited to 1 participant and we can only accept registration for 45 individuals.
Event is free but registration is required.
Who: The Army Corps of Engineers and Delaware Communities
What: Corps 101 Briefing
When: 9am to 4pm (with a brown bag lunch break for networking)
Where: DelDOT
Administration Building, 800 Bay Road, Dover, Delaware 19901
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Find grant opportunities by searching the Delaware Database for Funding Resilient Communities!
Storm surges, nor’easters, heavy precipitation events, and sea level rise threaten municipalities around the state, and climate models predict that these hazards will increase in severity and frequency in the future. Financial assistance programs are available to support the implementation of projects to prepare for and adapt to these threats. The
Institute for Public Administration (IPA) at the University of Delaware, with support from
DNREC Delaware Coastal Programs office, compiled relevant financial assistance programs into a searchable web database for Delaware’s local governments.
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Guide to using the database
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As a part of our mission, the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve is committed to promoting informed decision making through the Delaware Coastal Training Program. This program addresses critical coastal resource management issues in Delaware by providing current scientific information, access to technologies and skill-building opportunities to Delawareans responsible for making decisions about the state's coastal resources.
Requests for submittal: Have a great resource, training, or program that you want to share with Delaware community leaders and natural resources managers to help make our communities safer and more sustainable? Please submit information for inclusion in this e-newsletter to the contact below.
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Kelly Valencik | Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve | 302-378-5734
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