Abstract

Using Story Maps to Illustrate Resilience in the Great Lakes
Track: Ocean, Coastal, and Marine Resources
Authors: David Betenbaugh, Jodie Sprayberry

NOAA Coastal Services Center provides resources to coastal managers to enhance community resilience. The Center worked with ESRI to develop three story maps tailored to Great Lakes communities and designed to help coastal planners communicate the benefits of coastal habitats. The community resilience values of wetlands, floodplains, and riparian restoration are depicted in maps, graphics, and concise messages. These story maps are a part of an online Great Lakes Resilience Planning Guide (http://greatlakesresilience.org), developed by the Association of State Floodplain Managers and the Digital Coast partnership, and funded by the Environmental Protection Agency's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. The guide provides a means to share regionally relevant online tools and case studies for addressing costal hazards and the potential impacts of climate change. The tailored story maps are included as a communication tool and available as templates that can be downloaded and customized with other communities' data and messages.