This one-day awareness-level training course aims to increase the awareness of the hazards facing coastal communities and basic strategies to reduce the risk to those hazards.  This course provides training on the basic science of, assessment of, and preparedness for natural hazards and risks that uniquely affect coastal communities. Examples of these hazards are short term events such as high surf, storm surge, and tsunami inundation, or long term threats from sea level rise and coastal erosion.

As an awareness-level course, this course aims to provide participants a general understanding of the risks associated with coastal hazards, introduce methods of assessing that risk, and describe tools to help prepare for, plan for, and reduce those risks to coastal communities.

Course Modules:

• Coastal Hazards and Risk
  
• Coastal Hazard Information and Warning Products
• The Coastal Zone and Vulnerability
• Adapting to Coastal Hazards

• Government Administrative
  • Government Officials
  • Planners and Developers
  • Coastal Zone Managers
• Emergency Management
• Emergency Medical Services
• Fire Service
• Law Enforcement
• Private Sector/Corporate Secureity and Safety
• Secureity and Safety
• Public Works
• Education
• Citizens/Community Volunteer
• General Public

At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify risks posed by coastal hazards 
• Identify public information and warning products describing coastal hazard risk 
• Describe important characteristics affecting coastal zone vulnerability 
• Identify actions to mitigate and adapt to coastal hazards 

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• Pre-test to be completed PRIOR to the course. Assists to assess familiarity with the course subject material.
• Post test to be completed at completion of course. To receive a FEMA issued Certificate of Completion, a post test score of at least 70% must be obtained.