Coastal Hazard Awareness

Coastal Hazard Awareness

TCI: TCI-PSAY2NQD

Duration: 8-hour

Provider: University of Hawaii National Disaster Preparedness Training Center

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 such as coastal erosion.