*FREE* REGISTRATION IS OPEN! Contact ResilienceWkshp@tetratech.com
When: Tuesday, May 24 and Wednesday, May 25, 2022, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT daily
Where: Virtual (MS Teams Platform)
Who: Managers/Decision Makers/Stakeholders interested in Resilience-Based Wetlands Management
Focus: Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Regions, but participation from all regions is welcome!
What is wetland resilience? How do we manage for it? And how can resilient wetlands boost the health and resilience of coastal communities?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development is hosting an interactive workshop to explore evolving concepts of climate change vulnerability, socioecological impacts, and priority adaptation practices to manage for resilient coastal wetlands. All resource managers, practitioners, decision makers, conservationists, restoration specialists, consultants and community members interested in coastal wetland resilience and sustainability are welcome.
This is an opportunity to share information and ideas from diverse approaches to wetlands resilience and climate adaptation across multiple regions, organizations, and communities. Workshop emphasis is on interactions among participants to explore commonalities and differences in approaches, areas of success, opportunities for improvements, and other insights gained from varied approaches applied across regions and practitioners.
Topical presentations serve as a starting point for interactive audience participation in cross-cutting discussions. EPA research teams and partners from the two focus regions include representatives from:
Mid-Atlantic:
o EPA wetland vulnerability and adaptation team
o Partnership for the Delaware Estuary
o Chesapeake Bay Program Resiliency Workgroup
o Chesapeake Bay Program Wetlands Workgroup
o Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences
o Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Northeast:
o EPA climate adaptation and resilient wetlands team
o Narragansett Bay Estuary Program
o Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
o Rhode Island Natural History Survey
o Rhode Island Department of Health
o Save The Bay
The workshop concludes with a brainstorming session on synthetic lessons learned from across regions and organizations to help standardize, improve, and support the advancement of our collective wetland resilience effort